Visualizing Health Equity: Toward Spatial Justice in the Jade District

Visualizing Health Equity contributes visions for an equitable future, where everyone in the Portland, Oregon Jade District has the opportunity to lead a healthier life. With Jade District community environmental justice frameworks as a starting point, the studio explored connections between the built environment and racial and socio-economic health inequities, examining the full role that architecture and urban design can play in reducing those inequities. The studio affirms that architecture is never neutral, but rather always communicates cultural values. This paper will analyze simultaneous attempts to produce more equitable architectures and a more just studio pedagogy.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.87

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978-1-944214-37-1