AVOID THE SINS OF THE PAST BY GETTING
MEANINGFUL INPUT FROM MARGINALIZED PEOPLE
As an artist, one of Amy Stelly’s strategies was to go out and take photographs of real people in the neighborhood — shunning the clip art virtual beings often dragged into 2-D renderings to portray people in a plan.
“The best way for us to speak to one another, especially
in the Black community, was to see ourselves,” said.
Amy Stelly, planner, designer, teacher.
Stelly cautions against falsely mitigating the
destruction of ugly infrastructure that rips though a community, saying
painting hundreds of concrete supports or staging a market beneath freeway
pollution does not resolve the problem.
“We can’t just put lipstick on the pig. Lipstick on the
pig doesn’t remove the pig,” she said.
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