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Who Has Claim? – Part II: Community Benefits Agreements
This is Part II of a short series on inequality and inequity in the built environment and the resultant biased and prejudiced sensibilities and behaviors. In Part I: Exclusionary Ownership, I …
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Who Has Claim? – Part I: Exclusionary Ownership
This is Part I of a short series on inequality and inequity in the built environment and the resultant biased and prejudiced sensibilities and behaviors. Recently, I read an excellent …

(Re)Design for Good
Recently, I read a great article in CityLab called “How Architects Can Design ‘Coherent and Peaceful Cities'”. This piece profiled Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect native to Burkina Faso, who was …