Black in Rittenhouse and Designing for a Diverse City

Black in Rittenhouse and Designing for a Diverse City

All Things Considered, National Public Radio, WHYY-FM  4.19.18

Setha Low is a professor of environmental psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent years developing a nomenclature around evaluating the equity of public spaces. One form of equity she's identified is "distributional justice," or the idea of physical access or proximity to a space. There's also the "procedural justice" of who was allowed to have a voice in the planning and operations of a place. And perhaps most importantly, there's the "interactional justice" of who feels a sense of ownership and welcome.