I’ve been wanting to do a show about curiosity and community engagement in urban planning for a long time.
Amber Wiley's Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital is a fascinating, densely-researched look at how Black Washingtonians drove urban planning and design policy for public education.
The book is, as one reviewer put it, “a stirring lesson in how the built environment records the hopes and frustrations of its society.”
What role does -- or might -- curiosity play in all of that?
Amber Wiley: https://www.ambernwiley.com
Theme music by Sean Balick; "Home, Home At Last" by Warmbody, via Blue Dot Sessions.
