Assistant professor of Regional + City Planning C. Aujean Lee (pictured, left) & RCPL affiliate faculty member Laura Harjo (pictured, right; associate professor of Native American Studies) are guest editors for an upcoming special issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association entitled “Anti-Racist Futures: Disrupting Racist Planning Practices in Workplaces, Institutions, and Communities.”
The special issue editorial team also includes April Jackson (FSU), Anaid Yerena (University of Washington, Tacoma), Ivis Garcia (University of Utah), Benjamin Chrisinger (Oxford University), and Stacy Harwood (University of Utah).
Excerpted from the call for papers:
We are in a critical moment in history as demonstrated by the Spring/Summer 2020 nationwide anti-racism protests, after George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks died in police custody. With increased public consciousness amidst racial reckoning, it is imperative to document any shifts in state, regional, or municipal planning and higher education that are occurring to provide practitioners with concrete strategies on ways to implement anti-racist and decolonial planning practices. The field of planning has the opportunity to be proactive in valuing diversity and centering racial justice now more than ever. This Special Issue seeks to push planning scholars, educators, and practitioners to think critically about the field of planning, contend
with the racist origins of the field and profession, disrupt racial inequality, and dismantle current racist, colonial, and discriminatory planning policies and practices to redress harm experienced by communities of color and move towards anti-racist futures.
Learn more and submit
The call for papers is available here, and abstracts of 1,000 words are due to guest editors, April Jackson, PhD (ajackson5@fsu.edu) and Anaid Yerena (yerena@uw.edu) by June 1, 2021.
Gibbs College of Architecture is proud to recognize Petya Stefanoff, who is pursuing her doctorate in the Planning, Design & Construction (PDC) program, has been appointed the new role of Director of Community Development for the City of Shawnee, Oklahoma. She joined the city in 2024.
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design and director of the Institute for Quality Communities, has received national recognition for her book Model Schools in the Model City. The book has been named a finalist for the 2026 the PROSE Awards.
Gibbs College of Architecture Regional + City Planning Professor of Practice Vanessa Morrison and Associate Professor of Architecture Deborah Richards’ Open Design Collective received top honors at the inaugural BlackSpace Urbanist Collective Studio KIN Pitch Night Competition, held last month in Brooklyn, New York City.
