BONUS: Vishaan Chakrabarti on Community Preservation

Urban Roots

We’re trying something new: bringing you bonus content to keep Urban Roots in your feeds (and hearts?) between seasons!

First up is a fascinating conversation with Vishaan Chakrabarti, the co-founder and creative director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism. Vishaan, who has years of experience in the urbanism and architecture fields (check out his TED Talks and New York Times collaborations for some examples of his work), and the folks in his studio are doing the good work of trying to make our cities more equitable. In this conversation, we talk about a seismic shift happening in preservation and planning: a move away from preserving buildings and towards communities.

We also pull back the veil a bit on what we’re up to — and give you some backstory about Urban Roots and Urbanist Media, Deqah’s anti-racist community preservation not-for-profit.

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