Abstract Summary
In this session, urban planner, activist, social worker, and artist Jose Richard Aviles will lead participants through the intersections of social work and urban planning practices. In their publication, "Planners as Therapists, Cities as Clients," Aviles says, "'What are the conditions that led people to me as a therapist in the first place?' I realized that the summation of individual trauma is often community trauma, and that's how I became interested in treating the city as my client. As planners, we are called upon to address injustices and the traumas they create in our communities." This training session will cover concepts that focus on city design that reconciles the trauma of past racist urban policies and prioritizes access to a dignified quality of life for all people.
