Welcome to The Black Urbanist Weekly! I’m Kristen and this is my Black queer feminist take on urbanism and adjacent subjects. I usually open up with an editorial-style reflection on a topic of my choice, then I share my favorite links in the By the Way Section, and then, Before You Go, I talk openly […]
This is the map that started it all. Download this year’s version of the NC State Transporation Map. Can we stop calling every map/plan we don’t like or think is impractical, crayonista? Can we acknowledge that the only difference between a transportation plan’s reality and fantasy is political will? Welcome to The Black Urbanist Weekly! I’m Kristen […]
The Black Urbanist Weekly for July 4-10, 2022 Welcome to this week’s “holiday” edition, as many of us continue our reflection on this “false” independence we are asked to celebrate today. What’s on my mind this week as many more become aware of how tentative our lives are, especially in this particular country, but honestly […]
The Black Urbanist Weekly for June 13-22, 2022 It’s just weird to be repping borders and boundaries so hard when in reality they were often created forcefully and for economic means that don’t support our current goals or grant us full humanity. Y’all know that I’m a “take your shirt off and twist it like […]
I was recently asked, as I often am, what exactly is an urbanist? I told this person, for this podcast that will come out weeks from now and may or may not have this line in it, that there are many kinds of urbanism and urbanists. There are people who love cities and are enthusiasts. […]
My (late) Black North Carolinian dad was a key influence in my being interested in the city. We used to bike around our working-class neighborhood, walk to the neighborhood ballpark and go downtown to all the festivals. He also took me to more school buildings than I would care to share. My Black North Carolinian mom […]
