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An extremely important book that thoughtfully tackles questions central to today's social discourse on heritage, memory, and race. --Mario Gooden, Columbia University, author of Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity The summer of 2020 marked yet another moment in US history where the ongoing injustice against black bodies in the public realm was lifted up by thousands of protests in cities spaces across the country. Black Landscapes Matter enters at a time when a critical conversation about the centering of Blackness, Black spaces, and making Blackness visible is urgently needed to inform and construct a new, inclusive design canon that properly educates both designers and the public about our legitimacy in the making of American landscapes and our demands to feel free within them. The longer we keep these spaces and narratives invisible and neglected, the longer our journey towards reckoning, healing, acceptance and true freedom. --Toni L. Griffin, Harvard Graduate School of Design, editor of The Just City Essays: 26 Visions of Inclusion, Equity and Opportunity

An extremely important book that thoughtfully tackles questions central to today's social discourse on heritage, memory, and race. --Mario Gooden, Columbia University, author of Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

The summer of 2020 marked yet another moment in US history where the ongoing injustice against black bodies in the public realm was lifted up by thousands of protests in cities spaces across the country. Black Landscapes Matter enters at a time when a critical conversation about the centering of Blackness, Black spaces, and making Blackness visible is urgently needed to inform and construct a new, inclusive design canon that properly educates both designers and the public about our legitimacy in the making of American landscapes and our demands to feel free within them. The longer we keep these spaces and narratives invisible and neglected, the longer our journey towards reckoning, healing, acceptance and true freedom. --Toni L. Griffin, Harvard Graduate School of Design, editor of The Just City Essays: 26 Visions of Inclusion, Equity and Opportunity An extremely important book that thoughtfully tackles questions central to today's social discourse on heritage, memory, and race. --Mario Gooden, Columbia University, author of Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity

An extremely important book that thoughtfully tackles questions central to today's social discourse on heritage, memory, and race. --Mario Gooden, Columbia University, author of Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity The summer of 2020 marked yet another moment in US history where the ongoing injustice against black bodies in the public realm was lifted up by thousands of protests in cities spaces across the country. Black Landscapes Matter enters at a time when a critical conversation about the centering of Blackness, Black spaces, and making Blackness visible is urgently needed to inform and construct a new, inclusive design canon that properly educates both designers and the public about our legitimacy in the making of American landscapes and our demands to feel free within them. The longer we keep these spaces and narratives invisible and neglected, the longer our journey towards reckoning, healing, acceptance and true freedom. --Toni L. Griffin, Harvard Graduate School of Design, editor of The Just City Essays: 26 Visions of Inclusion, Equity and Opportunity

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Walter Hood is a MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley.Grace Mitchell Tada is an independent scholar, writer, and journalist.

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