Browsing by Author "Binkovitz, Leah"

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    Artist-Planner Collaborations: Lessons learned from the arts and culture ecosystems of three Sun Belt cities for a new model of inclusive planning
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2019) Patterson, Grant; Binkovitz, Leah
    City leaders have an opportunity to critically engage with community-rooted artists and cultural organizations to orient arts and culture efforts toward communities’ most pressing issues. Through cultural planning analysis of three peer cities — Houston, Denver and San Antonio — this report shows how art can be used in order to promote positive neighborhood change, including equity of access to resources and programs, inclusive planning processes and implementation of new strategies to promote inclusivity and maximize economic impact. Investing in arts and culture across neighborhoods, race and income is a matter of cultural equity. Leaders in the arts ecosystem increasingly recognize the fact that access to quality cultural offerings and the ability to design and implement them should not be limited by identity, socioeconomic status or neighborhood.
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    Circling the Herd: Houston’s Black Trail Riders, Placemaking and the Liberatory Potential of Second Sites
    (2021-04-28) Binkovitz, Leah; Elliott, James R.
    For decades, scholarship on Black communities has framed Black spaces as sites of deficit and pathology. Despite marginalization within mainstream sociology, Black scholars have consistently pointed instead to the placemaking power and geographic knowledges unique to Black experiences. This paper makes two critical interventions: first, revisiting the foundational work of W.E.B. Du Bois to engage its implicitly spatial analysis and reorient urban sociology. Second, drawing on the experiences of Houston’s Black trail riding communities to offer an empirical reflection of the material and imaginative ways Black placemaking connects space, place and time. Through interviews with 21 trail riders and observations of rides and gatherings, this study details the material and non-material dimensions of second site production, a framework that highlights the collectively produced sense of space, place and time that contains an alternative to dominant urban development paradigms.