Mayors Imagining the Just City: Panel 1: Memory, Place Narratives and the Just City |
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Event Description
Following the inaugural MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship–a collaboration between the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) and Harvard GSD's Just City Lab–the seven inaugural MICD Just City Mayoral Fellows discuss how to tackle racial injustices in each of their cities through planning and design interventions. OPENING REMARKS by Sarah M. Whiting, Ra Joy, and Trinity Simons PANEL 1: Memory, Place Narratives and the Just City Featuring: Mayor Stephen K Benjamin (Columbia, SC), Mayor Errick D. Simmons (Greenville, MS), Mayor Yvonne M. Spicer (Framingham, MA), and Mayor Vince R. Williams (Union City, GA) Moderator: Toni L. Griffin Respondent: Brent Leggs This event is supported by the Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Fund and presented by: Mayor's Institute on City Design National Endowment for the Arts Unites States Conference of Mayors The Just City Lab |