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How cities are designed and planned can lead to racial segregation, socioeconomic division, and fewer opportunities for the most marginalized.  Architect and urban designer Toni Griffin is posing the question: What does a city rooted in justice and equality look like?   

Griffin is a professor of urban planning at Harvard University. She is the founder of urbanAC, a trans-disciplinary firm that specializes in urban design projects in cities with histories of social injustice.  Griffin now also shares her decades of experience and lessons learned with students at Harvard University. She has also created the Just City Lab at the university, working on the important goal of, how would communities design spaces if we put the values of equality, inclusion or equity first?