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Adam Pine, 

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The most recent movements for black liberation brought about by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis highlight the generations of racist urban planning policies developed to marginalize, dispossess, and disinherit BIPOC urban citizens (Thomas & Ritzdor 1997; Lipsitz 2011; McKittrick 2011; Shabazz 2015). Urban planners in the US, through the conscious decisions they have made around transportation infrastructure, housing policy, community safety, public space, and economic development have created a city where unequal health outcomes, educational attainment, housing quality and access to employment are endemic (Derickson 2017). Native American dispossession, redling, urban renewal, single family zoning, and the fragmentation of the US metropolis into politically autonomous zones has been accomplished through technocratic and administrative means (Williams 2020; Roy 2006). Concurrently, whiteness in the urban planning community remains under-examined, leading to a lack of critical analysis around the relationships between planners and racially diverse cities (Goetz, Williams and Damiano 2020; Bonilla-Silva 2001; Carlson et al 2019). Across the US protesters confront police on streets, parks, and plazas that were developed with racist intent on terrains created through billions of dollars of racialized infrastructure investments in schools, sewer systems, water treatment plants, TIF districts and community economic development investments that created this unequal streetscape.

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