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Green Reconstruction, which recognizes that climate justice is unthinkable without racial justice, requires a public sphere where economic redistribution is openly discussed. Media networks, and the stories told there, are among the most important tools for rebuilding our collective imagination to conceive of justice in this way.
Belt Magazine, in partnership with the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, will publish features, commentary, essays, and photo essays on the connections between infrastructure and issues of climate, environment, equity, and democracy in the Rust Belt and Appalachia.
What does architecture look like when studied through its public-private partnerships? Considering the increasing number of climate-related disasters requiring federally funded mitigation and response efforts, long-stalled infrastructure proposals, and heated debates about a "Green New Deal," “Green Stimulus,” or even “Green Reconstruction,” what what does this way of thinking reveal about the built environment's relationship to today's interconnected crises of mutual care, racial oppression, and climate? And what part do architects truly play?
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