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Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2020.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
Advisor: Penn Loh.
Committee: Laurie Goldman.
Keywords: Urban planning, and Public administration.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), like many municipal planning agencies, holds tremendous influence over the scope and timeline ... read moreof development of neighborhoods. Many residents of Boston, particularly those from historically marginalized communities, see the BPDA as an adversary, yet individual planners within that agency, and even the agency itself, claim to value and pursue equity. In this thesis, I explore the question of how scholars and practitioners in the fields of planning and community advocacy envision a "corrective course" for planning, how historic harm and conflict shape that corrective course, and how a shifting of power relations between planning agencies and historically marginalized communities could be a means to achieve more equitable housing processes and outcomes. I examine these questions in two parts: first, a literature review, exploring existing equity-oriented urban planning frameworks, and second, an exploration of the themes that emerged from the literature review contextualized through the experiences of municipal planning practitioners and community advocates from "historically marginalized communities" in Boston whose work brings them in contact with planning agencies.read less
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