Скачать или смотреть Reimagining Urban Planning: Urban Planning and its Relationship to Economics (September 12, 2024)

Reimagining Planning is a monthly series of public webinars that focuses on the edge of innovation in urban planning and policy. Traditionally Urban Planning has had a long legacy of harming communities of color, developing and implementing racist policies, and destruction of the built environment. This series openly critiques this current iteration of urban planning in the hopes of proposing new theories, strategies, and concepts that help us arrive at an iteration of the field where we all belong. We are interested in helping foster meaningful conversations among urban planners hungry for more and to engage with new audiences that have always been curious about urban planning but may not know what exactly do urban planners do.

It’s important to understand the primary motivator behind urban planning or as defined by the previous webinar, “land transactions,” is profit. Given that we operate under a capitalistic society, it is inevitable that capitalism would be the driving economic system that informs current planning practices. This webinar criticizes the ways in which capitalism continues to play a vital role in the planning process and offers examples of ways in which to battle capitalism within a current capitalist system.

This installment of the webinar series brought together:

Víctor Sánchez joined the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) in 2017 as the director of the Long Beach campaign where he secured passage of the 2018 Measure WW campaign, and led movement efforts that won worker protections during the height of the pandemic. He subsequently served in director roles for the Quality Care and Climate campaigns. Prior to LAANE, Víctor worked in various organizing and research capacities at the USC Equity Research Institute, national AFL-CIO, and United States Student Association. Víctor holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a M.P.P. from the USC Price School of Public Policy.

Eli Moore is the Director of the Community Power and Policy Partnerships Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute. Over the last twenty years, Eli has facilitated numerous participatory action research processes and published various reports and strategy papers that have been cited by local, national, and international media outlets and policy-making bodies. His research focuses broadly on urban planning and policy, political economy, race, and human geography. He has co-developed original curriculum for community workshops on multiple topics including Extractive Finance. He also co-authored The California Story, an essay on the structural forces shaping economic and racial inequity in the state.

Jose Richard Aviles (Moderator) is a Transportation Analyst for the Othering and Belonging Institute. As part of the Community Power and Policy Partnerships team, they support government agencies and partners with community organizations by providing trainings, technical assistance, and evaluation support centering lived experience, vision, and self-determination of the communities most impacted by transit inequities. Aviles draws inspiration from their involvement with the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles and participation in other social justice movements like marriage equality.