Annette Koh is a Ph.D candidate in urban and regional planning at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. She is co-organizing the inaugural Decolonizing Cities symposium in Honolulu.
Placemaking When Black Lives Matter
Persistent inequalities and decades of discrimination mean a code of ethics isn’t going to cut it. We need an actual politics of placemaking. Our naiveté borders on negligence if we don’t explicitly address how the very presence of certain bodies in public has been criminalized and the color of your skin can render you automatically “out of place.”
June 13, 2017