Models For Equitable & Sustainable Urban Development

March 5, 2013 – Segment 4

A panel of equitable development experts joins us in time for this weekend’s symposium exploring models for equitable and sustainable urban development, taking place Saturday from 9am-4pm at Sojourner-Douglass College. Joining us are:

Dr. Marisela Gomez, author of Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America;
Dr. Rhonda Williams, author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality and Executive Director of Case Western Reserve University’s Social Justice Institute;
Roque Barros, Director of Community Building at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation in San Diego, CA;
and Gus Newport, former mayor (1979-1986) of Berkeley, CA.

Written by Marc Steiner

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