A Black Queer Disabled Feminist Urbanist Resource created and curated by Kristen E. Jeffers to Defy Gentrification and Craft Liberation
Let’s not fall into the trap that mixed-use is only a building code or type.
Cities are experiencing a renaissance in the global conversation. However, one must not forget the sins of cities past and present. What can we do to make sure the city allows all to enjoy and prosper in its borders?
People move to the suburbs for different reasons. Let’s make sure it’s not because you hate your neighbors, neighbors who are more like you than you care to realize.
Why natural disasters cancel the trivial problems of places.
After two years of writing this blog, it has come to my attention that I am simply a placeist. Not in the Urban Dictionary manner that sort of has undertones of being a racist or any other -ist that is negative. It’s in the sense that I see benefits in all types of land use… Continue reading Becoming A Placeist-The Black Urbanist on its Second Anniversary
Recently, a friend on Facebook asked this somewhat quintessential question: Why don’t black folks own businesses in their own neighborhoods? One commenter to this status mentioned that it may be because we (as in black folks) have forgotten to help our own as we have achieved higher and higher financial goals and wealth. I myself… Continue reading Does It Matter Who Owns the Corner Store?
So I was looking for jobs about six months ago and I came upon my current position through my network of grad school friends. On paper I knew I had what it takes to get the job. I also knew that this was a job that I could grow into and also be myself. Later… Continue reading Finding Happiness in the “Generic” City
North Carolina, my home state,represents a microcosm of the nation. How does it do that? Land use,economic development patterns, and population. Land Use Within a 7 hour drive, one could be at the peak of a mountain or digging their feet under sea level. In between there are rivers, lakes, swamps, hills of red clay… Continue reading North Carolina- A Microcosm of the Nation
A human is not a box. However, we still prefer to transport ourselves as such. Then again, we do live in a world, namely in the United States, where corporations are people and those “people” often make things that come in boxes. Yet, we are failing ourselves by only making our transportation systems work as… Continue reading Getting Human Transport Outside Of The Box
What makes a suburb a suburb? It’s one of the major questions that is at the center of the battle for how governments or independent communities of people should regulate and create public space. This issue has been on my mind quite a bit in the last few months. First, it was Emily Badger’s Pseudosuburbanism… Continue reading Identity Crisis- When Your Suburb is Really a Town