Racial Equity in Planning Organizations

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...

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Published inJournal of the American Planning Association Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 297 - 303
Main Author Solis, Miriam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago Routledge 02.07.2020
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
departments
equity
Fairness
Goal setting
Inequality
Norms
Organizational change
Organizations
Planners
Planning
race
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0194-4363
1939-0130
DOI:10.1080/01944363.2020.1742189