Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Exploring Restorative Planning in Canada and the United States
Anti-Black racism is embedded in the history, policies, and everyday practices of urban planning and continues to create harm in our communities today.
This intensive 3-part, seminar-style workshop series will equip you with the skills and language needed to identify how anti-Black racism operates and perpetuates, respond to racialized practices, and advance social equity and justice in your city.
This workshop series is designed for early to mid-career urban planners and professionals working in planning adjacent fields. Learners should have 5-10 years of professional experience and be looking to build comfort and confidence navigating and addressing anti-Black racism.
Through the workshop, you will:
- Define the integral role of planning in creating and perpetuating systems of racialized dispossession
- Engage anti-Black racism’s historical and ongoing role in urban planning practice and methods
- Examine the scaffolding systems of planning, racial capitalism, and settler colonialism to confront systemic racism and related structures of oppression
- Investigate the concepts of reparative planning and transformational justice and begin to articulate how specific planning frameworks or processes reflect these principles in the pursuit of social equity
* Please note that participation in this course does not include a certificate of completion.
Application deadline:
June 26, 2026. Space is limited so apply early – rolling admissions until full.
Meet the facilitator:
Tyeshia Redden is an assistant professor of urban planning in U of T’s Department of Geography & Planning, where she is the MSc. Planning program’s social policy concentration advisor. Dr. Redden examines spatial injustice and its relationship to the African Diaspora through the lens of popular culture and is interested in the role of narrative construction in racialized spatial injustice, blending humanistic inquiry with qualitative research methods.
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