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From Infrastructural Repair to Reparative Planning

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  • Lily Song
  • Elifmina Mizrahi
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Problem, research strategy, and findingsPlanners face great urgency to account for the field’s entanglement with White supremacy and rebuild from harm. Yet the actual practice of reparative planning in political communities still mired in racial inequalities and public institutions entangled in the production of racialized space is hardly straightforward. Anti-racist reckonings and reparations measures occurring within institutionalized venues are necessary starting points for reparative planning that can be further supplemented and amplified by anti-racist struggles and social practices in different arenas. Using a multimethod research design combining direct participation and nonparticipant observation with document-based research using primary and secondary sources and interviews, this case study of Alliance for Community Transit–Los Angeles (ACT-LA) explores infrastructural systems as key areas of racial harm, focal points of anti-racist resistance, and keystones for reparative planning. The substantive analysis focuses on ACT-LA’s Reimagining Safety initiative, which seeks to replace Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency’s racialized policing practices with public investments in community-based systems of safety. Case findings help expand points of entry and paths for reparative planning, inform strategies by planners embracing the reparative turn, and strengthen connections between community-based mobilizations and reparative planning.Takeaway for practicePlanners can advocate for institutionalized and social practices of reparative planning in the issue areas, sectors, and organizations in which we work, in solidarity with the reparations movement and other anti-racist struggles.

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  • Lily Song & Elifmina Mizrahi, 2023. "From Infrastructural Repair to Reparative Planning," Journal of the American Planning Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 89(4), pages 566-579, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjpaxx:v:89:y:2023:i:4:p:566-579
    DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2023.2181851
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