The theme for Black History Month 2022, “February and Forever: Celebrating Black History Today and Every Day,” encourages us all to incorporate Black history into our learning and work on a daily basis. Below, you can find CIP’s statement, reflecting on what this means for planning professionals, and a list of resources that can help you learn more about both the history of discriminatory policies in planning and the ways that planning can help to create more inclusive communities.
CIP’s Statement on 2022 Black History Month:
“Black History Month is an important opportunity for celebration and focused attention on Black planners and allies who are doing work daily to build thriving, cohesive neighbourhoods, and to remove social and racial barriers in their communities and within the planning profession. This year’s theme “February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day” is also a reminder that planners need to understand and consider the history of the profession, including its role in the demolition of Black communities and neighbourhoods such as Africville and Hogan’s Alley. Many of these discriminatory land use controls remain to this day, and we must fully and openly reflect on our past in order to ‘learn forward’ and build more socially inclusive communities for all.”
Dan Huang RPP, MCIP
President, Canadian Institute of Planners
Resources
Plan Canada
- Plan Canada, Spring 2021, Volume 61, No 1 Social and Racial Equity
- Urban Planning Education after Black Lives Matter By Cecille de Laurentis (Spring 2021)
- Pandemic Patios and “Flat White” Urbanism By Amina Yasin and Daniella Fergusson (Winter 2020)
CIP Resources:
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Roadmap
- Planning and Social Equity and Diversity (CIP Webinar, October 8, 2020)
- Foundations of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion for the Planning Community (CIP CLP Webinar January 18, 2021)
- Navigating Race, Equity, and Privilege (CIP Webinar with HRx, September 2021)
- CIP 2017 National Conference Keynote-Tamika Butler ESQ
- CIP Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Insight Survey (October 2021)
Additional Guides
- Black Voices on the City – A Resource Guide
- Engaging Black People & Power-A Public Engagement and Urban Policy Primer by Jay Pitter
- The Planner’s Beginner Guide to the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
- Planning Uncovered: The Story of Africville
- Planning Magazine: How the Nonprofit BlackSpace Centers and Celebrates Blackness in Design
- Report to OPPI Council with Final Recommendations of the Anti-Black Racism in Planning (ABRP) Task Force
Books/Guides (Compiled by Colloqate.org)
- Subdivided: City-building in An Age of Hyper Diversity
- Ghetto
- Seeking Spatial Justice
- The Activist’s Handbook
- Designing for a Just City
- The Little Book of Design Research Ethics
- Structural Inequality
- Organizing for Social Change
- The Endless City
- Living In The Endless City
- Stamped From The Beginning
- Radical Cities