How Do We Repair the History of City Planning?

Event Details

Britt Redd’s presentation, at Indiana University Northwest’s Anderson Library, will explore historic planning decisions that shaped our cities but led to racial inequities that exist today. Britt will discuss how policymaking and stronger relationships with each other can lead to the ultimate goal of healing, reconciliation and liberation.

Joining Britt will be Jeremy Pekarek, Archives and Special Collections Manager at IUN. Jeremy will share some of the unique stories contained in the Calumet Archives that have helped to shape our community. Tour the archives following the presentation! This event is free but you can donate to Legacy Foundation, Lake County’s Community Foundation, here.

Britt Redd (they/them) is a certified urban planner who is dedicated to ensuring neighbors have power over the places they value and the decisions that affect them. Britt has over 10 years of experience collaborating with neighbors on regional and neighborhood plans, public space designs, and economic development strategies. Britt has conducted extensive research exploring how racism has impacted housing mobility and the pollution burden in Indianapolis. Their upcoming project, An Unequal Burden, combines empirical data and oral history interviews with Black residents who have lived in the city’s most polluted areas. Britt holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning and a Social and Environmental Justice Certificate from Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning.