Four-hundred people attended all or part of the day, the largest DC Transportation Camp ever. (Image via TransitScreen) We voted in a poll using Easy Buttons. (Image via Nicola Ivanov) These are the results of that poll. Transit rockstars shared their stories. (Image via Brendan Casey) This is an impromptu game of Cards Against Urbanity. Fellow Streetsbloggers […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week we pause to really think about what our work means for the world. Please support this work on Patreon and forward this to a a friend or colleague who would get value […]
Broken Down House. Derrick Hughes via Flickr. Despite my life hacks from this post, we have to do something on a structural and legal level about sprawl. Unchecked sprawl is the urban renewal of today. Instead of providing the services that are needed in the core of the city, there are many cities (mine included) […]
I’m starting this book with the market, as without the market, we would not have urbanism. Churches and homes and farms and schools and even some general stores survive and thrive without being in urban areas. You could always walk the terrain of rural areas, as well as navigate with all forms of human transport […]
You know how you admire someone’s work from afar for years, hear all kinds of wonderful things about them, meet them once, and twice and over and over, and continue to learn more? That’s how I feel about the inspiring person I’ve chosen for this week, Mitchell Sliver, FAICP, Commissioner of the New York Parks […]
Privilege. The one thing I can take from reading this article and reading my words back to myself on what it has been like living as a classical new urbanist over the past year. I cannot think of another way to illustrate how I feel vis-a-vis a young man, only two years younger than me, […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights founder and editor-in chief Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week we are examining where the roads lead. Help Kristen continue to speak the truth and empower those to create the urbanism we deserve by making […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week we are making an adult craft neighborhood out of a childhood craft playground. At the end of the day, we all make things. And we make places to make […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week we are focusing on the healthcare woes and triumphs of Black gender marginalized folks Thank y’all for reading the emails last week. I really did enjoy writing the first […]
As of Saturday June 11, the Congress for New Urbanism has convened for 24 times. Since its inception, it’s gone through an evolution, an evolution powered by its roots in the architectural tradition of design and critique. It’s precisely this history which makes it still relevant in the greater design, development and governance (which I’m […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly. I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m making this weekly digital newsletter, to share my Black, Spiritual, Diasporic North Carolinian, Working/Lower Middle-Class, Educated, Queer, CisFemme thoughts on how places and communities work. Think of this as my weekly column, sitting on your proverbial print paper’s editorial page or as so many […]
Welcome to The Black Urbanist Weekly. I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m currently producing this weekly digital newsletter on my site and via email to share my thoughts, my Black, Spiritual, Southern, Working-Class, Educated, Queer, Femme thoughts on how places and communities work. Think of this as my weekly column, sitting on your proverbial print paper’s […]
Welcome to The Black Urbanist Weekly #7. I’m trying something different this week by putting the introduction up at the top so that it won’t get lost in the meat of the newsletter. I reintroduced this newsletter as a place where I focus on one big idea a week, then several smaller ideas/articles and then link […]
Welcome to The Black Urbanist Weekly.If it’s been a while since you’ve opened this or if you’re brand new, let me re-introduce myself. I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m currently producing this weekly digital newsletter on my site and via email to share my thoughts, my Black, Spiritual, Southern,Working-Class, Educated, Queer, Femme thoughts on how places […]
