by lindaoppenheim | Nov 29, 2017 | Article
Carl Anthony presents a capsule history that ties the development of port cities to the slave trade and labor that provided the foundation for the wealth of cities and nations. Click here to read the complete article, which is excerpted from The Earth, The City, and...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 23, 2017 | Events
Milton Curry of the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will give a talk “Black Cities: Architecture/Race/Theory” at 6 p.m. Monday, March 27, in Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture, Princeton...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 2, 2016 | Article
Lucy Tiven describes five ways racism crops up in a city’s landscape: 1) pollution, 2) construction of Chinatowns, 3) hostile architecture, 4) lack of public transportation, and 5) highways as dividers.