Residents of 5th Street

This is Mrs. McNott (left) and Ms. Conchita Jaloma (right) administering a community survey. A resident of 5th Street for more than 40 years, Ms. Jaloma is a Planning Project Task Force member. She was part of the struggle to get 5t Street paved, to turn Mud Road in to Guadalupe Street, and the 3-decade

On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, Remember Ft. Bend County’s Voting Rights Heroes

Fort Bend County’s little known African American history is in danger of being forgotten. Especially as it relates to struggles around voting rights in areas like Stafford and Fifth Street. The west end of the County commemorates the Terry V. Adams, which ended whites only primaries in Texas. See ceremony below: Terry v. Adams Marker

What’s Wrong with Urban Planning History? The Great Men of Planning Syndrome

Much of my research involves not only detecting the nature of planning and the role of memory in African American landscape development and preservation, but the historiography of planning. More specifically, I highlight the ontology, meanings, methods, and principles that informed early African American planning and advocate for its inclusion in current conceptualizations of planning