Part 2: INVISIBLE FOLKS | Anti-Black Racism in Canadian City Planning [Docuseries]

Black communities in Canada have been marginalized and undervalued by the planning and design of cities. The SofC docuseries ‘Nothing for us, without us’ explores the ways that anti-Black racism is embedded in the policies and practices of urban development, renewal and gentrification. Using Hogan’s Alley in Vancouver, Africville in Halifax, and Little Jamaica in Toronto as examples, it argues that Black businesses, organizations and leadership are missing from the rooms where planning decision are made, resulting in the unequal distribution of services and resources in urban areas.
Part 2, INVISIBLE FOLKS, examines how an unwillingness to acknowledge anti-Black racism in Canadian planning has resulted in an illusion that systemic injustices and oversights do not exist, and how ‘real estate capitalism’ displaces Black communities with little awareness of, or regard for, the impact.
‘Nothing for us, without us’ is a film by Ricardo Lopez-McDonald, featuring Cheryll Case (Founder and Executive Director, CP Planning); Amina Yasin (Director, Hogan’s Alley Society & Co-Chair, Vancouver City Planning Commision); Kofi Hope (CEO & Co-founder, Monumental & Urbanist-in-Residence, School of Cities); Mapfumo Chidzonga (Senior Engagement Strategist, Government of Nova Scotia); Leighana Mais (Community Leader, Keele + Eglinton Residents Group). Narrated by Alexandra Lambropoulos (Urban Limitrophe / Untitled Planning).
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