Toni Griffin: A new vision for rebuilding Detroit
Toni Griffin: Una nuova visione per ricostruire Detroit
Toni Griffin is an urban planner working to make cities more just and resilient. Full bio
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di pianificazione della città
una visione condivisa del suo futuro.
in other contested cities,
of embarrassment right now,
figuriamoci un'urbanista,
the voices of Detroiters.
attraverso le voci degli abitanti di Detroit.
of community meetings in rooms like this
una seduta di domande e risposte,
move me out of my house, right?"
di farmi andare via da casa mia, giusto?"
di permettersi una casa,
that they would ever know,
che abbiano mai visto,
con altri proprietari afroamericani
1950 and 2000, 2010,
tra il 1950 e il 2000, 2010,
and talk to us that night
che sono venute a parlare quella sera
di quello che significa vivere in una città
ci sono 80 000 abitazioni vacanti.
has lost so much population,
avendo la città perso così tanta popolazione,
to pay property taxes
a pagare le tasse
until you look at the city map.
finché non vedete la mappa della città.
and abandoned property
of community stewardship,
grandparents had found them.
quando li avevano scoperti i loro nonni.
been around community gardening,
and you could make it farmland?
e le trasformaste in coltivazioni?
return to an agrarian lifestyle,
tornare alla vita agricola,
activists in their neighborhood,
nel loro quartiere,
of Detroit's innovation.
dell'innovazione di Detroit.
they can tap into a workforce
di una forza lavoro
and city service system,
e un sistema di servizi cittadini,
wasn't necessarily too large,
non era necessariamente troppo grande,
per 100 persone a Detroit,
or an Atlanta or a Philadelphia
Atlanta o Philadpelphia
35 to 70 jobs per 100 people.
per ogni 100 persone.
come era stato fatto in passato
residential neighborhoods
called a live-make neighborhood,
chiamato quartiere, vivere-fare,
water management, for example,
per la gestione delle acque meteoriche,
watchmakers at Shinola,
in one of their ads last year,
presentato in una delle pubblicità l'anno scorso,
che per chi verrà.
e ricomincerei da capo."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Toni Griffin - Place makerToni Griffin is an urban planner working to make cities more just and resilient.
Why you should listen
Toni Griffin is the Founding Director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the City College of New York. In addition to her academic involvement, Griffin maintains an active private practice based in New York. Prior to returning to private practice, Griffin created a centralized division of planning and urban design for the City of Newark, New Jersey, and before that, worked on waterfront and neighborhood revitalization in Washington, D.C.
Griffin recently served as director of the Detroit Works Project, and in 2012 completed and released Detroit Future City, a comprehensive citywide framework plan for urban transformation.
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