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Professionals Council Lecture – John Rahaim


URBAN PLANNING & DESIGN PROFESSIONALS COUNCIL LECTURE

Can Planning Save the City’s Soul – 21st Century San Francisco

John Rahaim
Planning Director for the City and County of San Francisco

Lecture – May 7, 2019 | Architecture Hall, University of Washington Campus (Seattle)

On May 7, 2019 John Rahaim kicked off the first Department of Urban Design & Planning Professionals Council lecture.

Rahaim was appointed Planning Director for the City and County of San Francisco in January 2008. In that role he is responsible for overseeing long range planning, environmental reviews, and development entitlements for most physical development in the City.

Prior to his appointment in San Francisco, Rahaim was Director of Long Range Planning for the City of Seattle, and was the Founding Executive Director of CityDesign, Seattle’s office of Urban Design founded. In his lecture, presented insights from his career as a professional planner and leader on contemporary planning issues.

You can listen to a recording of the full lecture here:


The Art of Black Urbanism

The Art of Black Urbanism

Panel Discussion – February 6, 2019 | University of Washington Campus (Seattle)
Exhibition – February 5-28, 2019 | Gould Gallery, College of Built Environments

The Art of Black Urbanism was a conversation and art exhibition on black visibility and shifting spaces in community, presented by the UW Department of Urban Design and Planning in collaboration with BEart&urbanism. The panel included Dr. Matthew Miller, a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design’s Department of City and Regional Planning, and Jessica Rycheal, a Southern interdisciplinary story-teller and Art Director based in Seattle, Washington. The discussion was moderated by Tiana Brawley, co-founder of BEart&urbanism and a student at the University of Washington School of Social Work.

Photographic works by Miller and Rycheal, along with sculpture by Seattle artist Keith Murakata, were on display February 5-28, 2019 in Gould Gallery at the College of Built Environments’ exhibition space in Gould Hall.

Artist Statements:

Matthew Jordan Miller, PhD
Jessica Rycheal
Keith Murakata

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Featured Press
The Daily (University of Washington)
“The art of Black urbanism: Creating space to be seen”
By Aleenah Ansari – February 8, 2019