Next City Event: Live Stream: Spaces and Places 2019 Presented by Community Bank of the Bay

For the first time ever, Spaces and Places will be amplified to a national audience. Presented by Community Bank of the Bay, this annual event directly addresses issues affecting communities of color — issues too often not fully recognized by professional urban planning and design communities. Until now, only conference attendees had been able to take part in the conversation.

Register below to watch a live stream by Next City of “Spaces & Places 2019: People. Power. Justice.”

A grassroots network of urban planners, policymakers, and designers formed in 2016 to change the course of history on urban planning. It resulted in a series of “unconference” convenings held in conjunction each year with the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference. The first gathering in 2017 in New York City, “Spaces & Places of Protest: The Cost of Social Injustice in Communities of Color,” featured models for self-determination by communities of color in planning and designing, plus a discussion of the role of protest and change in American cities. Then in New Orleans, “Spaces & Places 2018: Community-Led Initiatives: Equity, Inclusion, Crisis” brought leaders together to celebrate initiatives led by communities of color across planning, design and activism.

This year’s event will assemble urbanists and community leaders for a day of learning and exchange in Oakland, California. The workshop will explore collective and cooperative power, affordability in housing, homelessness, climate change displacement and environmental justice, and black cultural districts. Normally, no more than 150 seats are available at the live event (and if you plan to join us in person, register here). But now the central panel presentation will be live-streamed and available across the nation and world. A video recording of this event will be made available to those who register.

This event is designed to catalyze change and has led to a number of positive outcomes, including the creation of a social justice track at APA’s 2018 National Planning Conference and the formation of BlackSpace, a Black urbanist collective based in New York. Taking part is a chance to be part of a movement helping to spread that change.

This online signup for the live stream version of the workshop is pay what you wish to register. Pay any amount that you would like or nothing at all. Those who become sustaining members paying at least $5 a month, or making a one-time donation of $60, will receive a copy of the new book, “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do” as a thank-you gift. Your contribution will help Next City pay for a student journalist of color to take part in our urban affairs summer internship. If Next City meets our spring membership drive stretch goal, we will be able to produce a special issue ebook and booklet devoted to reporting on solutions for greater representation in sectors we cover. A printed copy of the booklet on representation will be mailed to all donors and inside they will be thanked by name.

Register now for the live stream of Spaces & Places: People. Power. Justice. and if you make a donation, it will help us reach our goals.

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