Community Visions
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCommunity Visions amplifies the voices and lived experiences of Black people as they directly, or indirectly, engage the field of city and urban planning. The Podcast also explores the Black cultural perspectives on the issues of urbanism and how the built environment shapes our daily lives. Community Visions provides us with an understanding of how traditional planning practices have harmed communities of color, particularly Black communities. Through conversations with activists, community leaders, scholars and planners, Community Visions demonstrates a re-envisioning of the practice to break away from its deleterious past.
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Episodes
Graduation Part 2
August 06, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBThis final episode celebrates the Black students in UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED). The episode documents the students’ learning journeys and provides an opportunity for reflection of their education within the graduate programs at CED. The series of conversations in this episode will close out this iteration of Community Visions. And since the origins of the Community Visions podcast came from the Black student experience in the 1990s, we would like to close out with th...
Graduation Part 1
August 06, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBThis final episode celebrates the Black students in UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED). The episode documents the students’ learning journeys and provides an opportunity for reflection of their education within the graduate programs at CED. The series of conversations in this episode will close out this iteration of Community Visions. And since the origins of the Community Visions podcast came from the Black student experience in the 1990s, we would like to close out with th...
Racial Capitalism
July 02, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBRacial capitalism can be interpreted in multiple ways and scholars have argued that racism is a core functionality of capitalism, since it is deeply rooted in histories of colonialism and slavery. Another interpretation of racial capitalism is the process of deriving social and economic value from the racial identity of another person and limiting their access to certain financial products, like home mortgages. Although arguments have been made that capitalism is inherently racist, using the...
Gentrification & Criminalization
June 04, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBPlanning concepts like “eye’s on the streets” inherently villainize Black bodies and are highly dependent on surveillance as well as the presence of law enforcement, and this is just one of the ways that urban planning is implicated in the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. This episode anayzes the planning policies that serve as the drivers of gentrification that displace and criminalize Black residents. For the purposes of this episode, gentrification is defined as “a profit-driven raci...
Black LGBTQ Lives Matter
May 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBThe policies and practices of urban planning is focused on a heterosexual public that marginalizes differences in gender and sexuality. In addition to historical and current homophobia and transphobia, the compounded impacts of anti-Black racism has required Black LGBTQ communities to create space for themselves, establish communities of healing and thrivance, and fight for resources on a level that is incomprehensible to most. Specific to the realm of urban planning, the failures of the pra...
Movement Through Space
April 02, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBFor our second episode, we explore how the movement of Black people is policed in urban settings by government agencies that go well beyond police departments. This episode looks at the perceptions of transit infrastructure and how it connects to other issues, including increased land values and gentrification. We also discuss how the self-agency of communities is quite different from the professional practice of community engagement that has been traditionally employed by local government a...
Stolen Land & Stolen Bodies
March 04, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBThis introductory episode acknowledges that the conversation around anti-Black racism is happening on stolen and occupied Indigenous land. Settler colonialism and settler privilege have enabled us to frame the Native American experience in the past tense, as if they are no longer here. The resulting effects of invisibility is exacerbated when groups are excluded from the decision-making process and their population numbers aren't large enough to be considered. The current western structures...