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Black Women in the Built Environment: Ten Voices from Chicago book cover

1st Edition

Black Women in the Built Environment Ten Voices from Chicago

Edited By Joclyn Oats Copyright 2027
182 Pages 89 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book showcases the women of the Black Diaspora and quantifies their impact in reshaping the built environment in the 21st century. The collection includes experiences from Black female architects, urban planners, interior architects, and interior designers to demonstrate how they have repaved, and still are repaving, the landscape for future generations. The book focuses specifically on... Read more

List of figures

List of contributors

Forward by Sharon Egretta Sutton

Preface

Timeline Introduction

Introduction

Chapter 1. May Bird-Murphy

Chapter 2. Kimberly Nicole Dowdell

Chapter 3. Dina A. Griffin

Chapter 4. Clemenstien Love

Chapter 5. Anne Melinda Palmore

Chapter 6. Denise rush

Chapter 7. Sharon Samuels

Chapter 8. Chris-Annmarie Spencer

Chapter 9. Danielle Tillman

Chapter 10. RaMona Westbrook

Chapter 11. A Global Perspective: Black Women Shaping the Built Environment

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Joclyn M. Oats is an independent teacher, lecturer, moderator, researcher, and illustrator on architecture and design topics. Joclyn is a retired tenured faculty member of the Design Department at Columbia College Chicago, where she taught for 30+ years. Professionally, she has practiced architecture and interior design and served the College in an administrative capacity as coordinator and director for the BFA, Interior Architecture, MFA, Architectural Studies, and the MFA, Interior Architecture Programs for over a decade. 

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