Harvard GSD announces 2023 MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship
"The 2023 Fellowship will help mayors develop and strengthen approaches to embedding justice and equity goals within government policy and practices, as well as help mayors design strategies for achieving more just and equitable outcomes within their communities."
2023 | The Harvard Gazette
South Side Land Narratives: The Lost Histories and Hidden Joys of Black Chicago
"Black voice can be a powerful instrument of change—used as a currency to be saved or spent or as a carrier of demand and solution. This essay and the corresponding collages aim to represent and make public the confrontation of pain and quest for joy found in the Black public realm of Chicago’s Mid-South Side."
Fall / Winter 2021 | Harvard Design Magazine, No. 49: Publics
The Guggenheim as Third Space: Accessing Community and Contemplation in a Place of Privilege
"Third spaces are neutral, accessible, and often public spaces that serve as places for building community and social connections. They are spaces outside of our home, school, or work where we can freely engage with others for the purpose of finding a sense of belonging, acceptance, happiness, and even delight."
October 31 2019 | Guggenheim Museum
Griffin founded the consultancy Urban Planning for the American City, which she complements with her pedagogical work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
August 5, 2019 | Akiva Blander
Great Books for a Brainwashing
Summer reading lists designed to get college freshmen on board with social justice.
July 28, 2019 | Andy Kessler
Featured appearance, Matt Tyrnauer, Director
2017
POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Empowerment and Disruption in Community Engaged Design
2016 | NE Arts Blog
INCLUSION IN ARCHITECTURE REPORT
J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, 2015
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The Just City Essays
RACE DIVIDES! How Race-Based Social, Economic, Power and Capacity Divisions Keep Us from Realizing the Just City
In 2015, I co-edited The Just City Essays, 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity. In the volume, we cited that “the persistence of injustice in the world’s cities – dramatic inequality, unequal environmental burdens and risks, and uneven access to opp...
2015 | The Just City Lab
Epilogue: Detroit Future City
Griffin, Toni L. and Thomas, June, Mapping Detroit, June Manning Thomas, Editor,
Fall 2015
Confessions of a Gentrifier: Choices, Conflicts and Contradictions
In 2010, after spending two years working and living in downtown Newark, New Jersey, I was ready to move to a neighborhood that did not require me to get in my car to buy decent produce or a half-gallon of milk. I wanted a neighborhood of convenience with restaurants,...
January 25, 2015 | Toni L. Griffin
Teaching Cultural Competency in the Design of American Cities
Space Unveiled: Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio; edited by Carla Jackson Bell, Ph.D., Routledge
2014
Toni L. Griffin, Dan Cramer, Megan Powers, Buildings Journal
2014
“Hurricanes, Civil Unrest and the Restoration of the American City: Lessons from Newark for a New Planning Response”
New Orleans Under Construction, co-edited by Michael Sorkin, Carol McMichael Reese, and Anthony Fontenot, Verso (London and New York)
May 2014
Detroit Future City
Griffin, Toni and Reed, Chris, Harvard Design Magazine 37
March 2014
A Tale of Two Cities, Washington, DC and the Anacostia Waterfront
In Search of the Public: Notes on the Contemporary American City by Mario Gandelsonas, Rafi Segal, Els Verbakel and Diana Agrest
May 27, 2013
American City Interrupted: What Spontaneous Interventions can Teach us About Taking Back the City
pages 52-60., Architect Magazine,
August 2012
New York Times, The Opinion Pages, Room For Debate
October 28, 2011
The Incredible Shrinking City: No City is Disposable
New York Times, The Opinion Pages, Room For Debate
