Work

Racial Equity in Planning Organizations

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: In this Viewpoint, I urge public planners to examine how planning departments’ internal rules and norms reproduce racial inequity. I first explain how public planning departments’ inner workings are racialized and then offer racial equity in planning organizations (REPO) as a framework and directive to align public planning racial equity goals with internal rules and norms. I argue that organizational change will position planners to advance racial equity in the United States. REPO can lead to local change and recalibrate how planners envision their role in changing their communities.

Source: Journal of the American Planning Association

DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2020.1742189

Author: Miriam Solis

Institution: The University of Texas at Austin

Language: English

Topic: Urban Planning and Governance

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3016625027

FWCI: 14.49

Cites: 69

Cited by: 34

Related to: 10