DESIGN AND THE JUST CITY Can design have a meaningful impact on social and spatial justice in cities, and why justice is not the same as equity.
TONI GRIFFIN is Professor of Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Director of the Just City Lab.
Griffin is also the founder of urbanAC (Urban American City), based in New York. Through the practice, Griffin served as Project Director for the long range planning initiative of the Detroit Work Project, and in 2013 completed and released Detroit Future City, a comprehensive citywide framework plan for urban transformation. Most recent clients include working with the cities of St. Louis, Memphis, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh. She began her career as an architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in Chicago, where she became an Associate Partner involved in architecture and urban design projects in London and Chicago. Griffin received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she also taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor between 2006-2011. In 2014, Griffin was the Visiting Associate Professor and Theodore B. and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Real Estate Law and Urban Planning, in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.
