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ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: Carl Anthony

Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Wurster Hall
The Earth, the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race Environmental and social justice activist Carl Anthony draws on decades of experience as an architect in his new book, “The Earth, the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race.” His book, part memoir and part tutorial, grapples with questions of urban democratization and sustainability in the context of shifting social norms and changing environmental realities. Anthony joins us to discuss his life's work and strategies for enhancing equity in a changing world. About Carl Anthony Carl C. Anthony, architect, author and urban / suburban / regional design strategist, is revered as a social and environmental justice leader. He was the founding director of Urban Habitat, one of the country’s first environmental justice organizations, known for pushing the mainstream environmental movement to confront issues of race and class. Anthony co-edited and published the “Race, Poverty and the Environment Journal”, the first environmental justice periodical in the United States. In 2000, he was recruited to lead the Ford Foundation’s Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative. During his years at Ford, he became aware of potential pathways to economic and social equity for marginalized communities by treating the city, suburbs, and surrounding rural areas as an interdependent holistic system—the metropolitan region. Anthony initiated the national Conversation on Regional Equity (CORE), a dialogue of national policy analysts and advocates for new metropolitan racial justice strategies. Upon leaving the Ford Foundation and returning to the West Coast, Anthony and longtime collaborator Dr. Paloma Pavel founded the Breakthrough Communities Project, dedicated to empowering grassroots communities in metropolitan regions and nurturing multiracial leadership. Anthony and Pavel are producing a series of workshops on Climate Justice with low income communities of color in Sacramento, San Diego, and Sonoma, as they develop a toolkit for Planning Healthy and Just Communities for All in the Age of Global Warming. Anthony has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning and the UC Berkeley Colleges of Environmental Design and Natural Resources. In 1996, he was appointed Fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. This lecture is co-sponsored by the CED Alumni of Color and the Kenneth Simmons Community Lecture Endowment, and it part of the Fall 2018 Berkeley Architecture Lecture Series. Open to all!