planning – ANDREA ROBERTS

PUB: African American Planning, Cooperative Economics, & Community Building Minus the Respectability Politics.

Jul 11, 2016Andrea RobertsUncategorizedblack, black lives matter, building, community, domestic, farmers, feminism, history, justice, memory, planning, preservation, respectability, social, sustainability, Texas, womanism, women

Looking for examples of anti-banking system, anti-respectability, pro-cooperative Black planning &community building? Try 19th Century Texas History. I recently published an article on race gender, planning, and mutual aid called “The Farmers’ Improvement Society and the Women’s Barnyard Auxiliary of Texas: African American Community Building in the Progressive Era,” in the Journal of Planning History.…

Sensing Public Housing History: Historic Zoning Process for Rosewood Courts Advances; Austin Affordability & Preservation Debate Continues

Aug 25, 2015Andrea RobertsUncategorizedAustin, emancipation park, ffordability, historic preservation, lbj, planning, public housing, Rosewood, THC, urban

Update on Rosewood Courts in Austin! Here’s a little background on the Courts: http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/opinion/phillips-rosewood-courts-more-than-worthy-of-histo/nnN5h/ Here’s a snippet of last night’s (follow link) City Historic Landmark Commission meeting on the matter of it being designated a local landmark. See Item 7A 5 Item 7A 5 C14H-2015-0008 Rosewood Courts 2001 Rosewood Avenue Council District 1 Applicant: Fred McGhee; Historic Landmark…

Dead Assets: Endangered Cemeteries, Sacred Spaces of African America

Jun 20, 2014Andrea RobertsUncategorizedadvocacy, african american, ancestors, black, Black women, cemetery, church, family, fringe, history, Houston, justice, land, legislative, planning, reparations, rural, slave, Texas

By Andrea Roberts* I spoke yesterday with Jeremy Nelloms, descendant of Nancy Bradshaw. Nancy Bradshaw was a former slave who attained an impressive 300 acres of land after emancipation located in today’s northeast Houston, Texas. The land is located a few blocks off I-10 East. Her family still owns the land, and the historic African…