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TRANSPORTATION
Transportation inequity impacts access to essential services and enrichment. Historic contributors to transportation inequity include discriminatory policies such as redlining, urban renewal, and highway construction.
Equitable access to public space is essential to quality of life, social cohesion, and civic engagement, especially for vulnerable populations who often have smaller personal living spaces and less access to vehicles. Due to contested histories, many public spaces are not comfortable for all who use them.
PUBLIC SPACE
Because of ecological inequity, marginalized communities are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation and pollution, while lacking access to environmental amenities and resources.
ECOLOGY
Human activity – or the lack thereof – can be an indicator of how well a space or place is acting as a resource to its community.
HUMAN ACTIVITY
Inequity in the built environment is entrenched in historic and present-day practices including redlining, exclusionary zoning & investment, and gentrification. Buildings themselves can perpetuate inequity through lack of accessibility and unhealthy materials and systems.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
These are just some examples of dozens of common layers. Analyzing layers together uncovers intersections that help us better understand the experience of a place and existing inequities. This also drives ideas for more equitable design solutions.
INTERSECTIONS
