1st Edition

Black Women in the Built Environment Ten Voices from Chicago

Edited By Joclyn Oats Copyright 2027
214 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, interior designers to demonstrate how they have, and still are, repaving the landscape for future generations. The book focuses specifically on ten diasporic... Read more

List of figures

List of contributors

Forward by Sharon E. Sutton

Preface

Timeline Introduction

Pictorial Timeline

Introduction

Chapter 1. May Bird-Murphy

Chapter 2. Kimberly Dowdell

Chapter 3. Dina 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 Oats is an independent teacher, lecturer, moderator, researcher, 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 thirty plus 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.