Baltimore
In October 2021, I attended a conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Place which was held in Baltimore. It, being a geography conference made me realize how there is no talking about planning without geography. This was one of ASU’s first conferences as the main sponsor, thanks to the efforts of the JEDI committee. The reason why the conference was situated in Baltimore was that it allowed the researchers and academics to situate themselves in a city where the concepts that they studied play out in a clear and explicit way. In the few paragraphs below, I will be sharing with you all some key takeaways from the panel discussions and plenaries as it is closely related to most of the work we do in this course. For example, I did not know that redlining was being done in Baltimore, and I am sure in many other cities, to attract the immigrant demographic in an area called Highland, in a bid to prop up the property prices. Baltimore has a distinct and defined spatial representation of redl...