Silences, such as at planning conferences, and cries, such as those in the face of police violence, tell of spatial patterns that reveal where and when urban planners operate. I am arguing for a substitution of silence in favor of a practice of care and caring in planning that would alter the geography and temporality of planning work. Could any audible volume—in words or in actions in the setting of the Zoning the City conference, for example—have led to changes that would have prevented Garner’s killing, or those of such recent victims of the NYPD as Ramarley Graham, Shereese Francis, Reynaldo Cuevas, Kimani Gray, or Akai Gurley?
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