Planning Cities for Justice and Joy: The Power and Promise of Engaging Young People and Schools

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

How can young people and city leaders collectively tackle today’s historic levels of gentrification and displacement to thrive together in an uncertain future? Although traditionally researched, planned, and operated separately, the future of our cities and schools are inextricably linked, and this connection is especially salient today in the San Francisco Bay Area. This panel will explore the power of young people to resist the dismantling of their schools, communities, and social networks through engagement in Y-PLAN (Youth - Plan, Learn, Act, Now!) action research initiatives in Oakland and Silicon Valley. Students have been working as participants in an intergenerational community of practice with city planners and technology leaders to collect and analyze community data and generate solutions to stabilize their communities, together.

Sub Unit

• Public Good: Power and Possibilities

Chair

• Deborah McKoy, University of California - Berkeley

Participants

• Karen Chapple, University of California-Berkeley

• Linn E. Posey-Maddox, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Elizabeth Aviles, University of California - Merced

• Ron Ashford, Former Director of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Amanda Eppley, University of California - Berkeley

• Pedro A. Noguera, University of Southern California

• Libby Schaaf, Mayor for the City of Oakland