1st Edition
Progressive Planning Practice Transforming Communities of Color
Land Acknowledgment
Michaela P. Shirley and Scott Moore y Medina
Foreword
Norma Rantisi
Introduction
Sean Robin
Part I. Transformative Planning
Chapter 1: Learning from Mel King: Transformative Planner, Activist, Educator and Thinker
Marie Kennedy, Sean Robin and Chris Tilly
Chapter 2: Transformative Planning in Practice: Challenges and Strategies
Chris Tilly and Marie Kennedy
Part II. Planning from Black Communities/African Diaspora Perspectives
Chapter 3: Black Planning Project’s 4P Approach: People, Place, Pedagogy and Practice
Abigail Moriah and Hanaa Ali
Chapter 4: Perspectives from an Early 21st-Century Black Planner
Byron Anthony Nicholas
Part III. Indigenous Planning/Tribal and Pacific Island Perspectives
Chapter 5: Seven Generations: A Role for Artists in Zuni PlaceKnowing
Theodore (Ted) Jojola and Michaela P. Shirley
Chapter 6: Beyond Refusal: Balancing Colonial Land Ownership in Planning
Nihok’aa Diyin Dine’é Bikéyah [This author is the Land] and M. Joaquin Lopez-Huertas
Chapter 7: Planning Against Imperialism: Towards a Global and Transnational Indigenous Planning
Kevin Lujan Lee and Josh Campbell
Part IV. Planning from Latino Communities/Puerto Rican Perspectives
Chapter 8: Strategies to Protect and Enhance the Political and Cultural Capital of Puerto Ricans in Chicago
Teresa Córdova and Jessica “Jessie” Fuentes
Part V. Housing
Chapter 9: Beyond the House: Decolonial Housing for a Just Future
Anaid Yerena
Part VI. Ethics
Chapter 10: Love Ethics to Guide Planning/Policy Transformation
Margaretta Wan-Ling Lin
Part VII. Prison Abolition and Planning
Chapter 11: A Place for Planning in Abolition and Transformative Justice?
Courtney Knapp, A.J. Kim, Carolina Sarmiento and Sheryl-Ann Simpson
Part VIII. Political Mobilizing and Organizing
Chapter 12: Mobilizing Communities of Color for Housing Policy Change
Alejandra Reyes
Part IX. Storytelling and Film
Chapter 13: Sa Amin: Our Place - Film’s Transformative Planning Potential
Fay Darmawi
Part X. Environmental and Climate Justice
Chapter 14: Seeing Indigenous Peoples in Urban Environmental and Climate Justice: Transformations and Intersectionalities
Sharon Hausam and Lauren Mullenbach
Chapter 15. A Blues Epistemology for Climate Futures
Mia Charlene White
About the Authors
Index
Biography
Sean Robin has worked for decades in New York in the community development field, including through promoting supportive housing and cooperative home ownership and through sponsoring authentically participatory processes. He is founding editor of Indigenous Planning Times, is on the steering committee of Planners Network and co-initiated the BIPOC Planning Collective.






