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4 Perspectives from Leaders on the Frontiers
4 Perspectives from Leaders on the Frontiers
Pages 31-38
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Such organizations include Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) , 1 This section summarizes information presented by panel session speakers Nicole Payne from the American Planning Association–New York Metro, Nupur Chaudhury from the New York State Health Foundation, followed by Justin Garrett Moore from the New York City Public Design Commission and Columbia University, and Jennifer Allen from ioby.
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. Dailey introduced Nicole Payne from the American Planning Association–New York Metro, Nupur Chaudhury from the New York State Health Foundation, followed by Justin Garrett Moore from the New York City Public Design Commission and Columbia University, and Jen nifer Allen from ioby.
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She gave the example of Complete Streets 2 and its philosophical approach to ensure safe and accessible travel for all users, which emphasizes how people use the infrastructure rather than the infrastructure alone. A second example is the Vision Zero Network.3 She said that while they aim to reduce traffic fatalities, cities are embracing the idea of streets being a place for social interaction.
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She closed by imploring those in the audience to consider how they can leverage their own "power and privilege" to remodel the system "so that communities are leading us and we are following in that work." Justin Garrett Moore described hearing a man in Harlem, New York, watching the planting of trees and saying "they are not planting … those trees for us." This gave Moore a sense of how residents viewed changes in areas undergoing gentrification. Moore explained that trees were being planted in the name of environmental justice as well.
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Allen said that at ioby, a nonprofit crowdfunding platform aimed at building support for change within communities, they provide resources to residents to change aspects of their communities to meet their needs. This connects people to resources online and in real life, and projects range from linking people to the know-how for creating a community garden, to resources for purchasing a vacant property and turning it into a space for art and healing.
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Hanh Cao Yu remarked on recent public dialogue surrounding racism and exploitive capitalism and asked the panel about their thoughts on economic forces and inclusive development. Moore answered that New York has been trying different strategies to promote long-term economic sustainability to combat racism, such as land-lease development deals.
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She explained that one of the funders held a competition and a requirement was that any plans had to be co-created with the community it intended to serve. This is what she called "the carrot." By making this a requirement for the competition, she explained, plans were developed using these parameters, even if there were no city regulations or policies dictating this.
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