Health Keynote: Unhealthy Spaces, How they Got that Way, and Who Gains When They Improve
By Bill Millard
A moment of silence for victims of police shootings (including onetime Parks Department employee Eric Garner) set a tone of solemnity to launch the Health Keynote by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, author of Urban Alchemy (2013), Root Shock (2004), and other books chronicling the development of America’s urban environment. Upgrading parks and streets without recognizing their history, including the unsavory dialectic of gentrification and racism, would be a hollow sense of active design, Fullilove contends. The problems of poor health in urban spaces are inextricable from residential segregation, economic disenfranchisement, and planned urban shrinkage. Continue reading “FitCity 10: Lecture Lineup”