Miscellaneous
In this episode, join your moderator Lubna Alli and guest speakers Cheryll Case (Founder and Principal of CP Planning) and Abigail Moriah (Founder of The Black Planning Project) to discuss all things racism, specifically with accord to how city planning policies and processes, placemaking and the built form is designed with inherently racist principles at hand. We talk about research that confirms trends that are plainly visible in the urban landscape: social polarization, spatial segregation, and a deepening racialization of poverty as defining features of Toronto’s social geography. This, paired with the July 2020 Toronto Public Health data for COVID-19 cases in our city, tells a story of two very different experiences of the pandemic — one for the privileged and one for everyone else.