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Podcast: Transforming Cities
Episode: Ujijji Davis
Description: On this episode Iām speaking with Ujijji Davis, a Brooklyn-born landscape architect and urban planner currently living in Detroit. There she focuses on landscape and urban design, master planning, and strategic implementation projects. Her current research regards the importance of arts & culture and race & vernacular landscapes in the urban realm.
She recently published a critical essay in the Avery Review with Columbia University, entitled "The Bottom: The Emergence and Erasure of Black American Landscapes," on black identity in American landscapes in 2018. She's an advocate for STEM girls education and keynoted the 4th Annual Young Women's Leadership Af...