These are all elements of what planner James Rojas calls “Latino Urbanism,” an informal reordering of public and private space that reflects traditions from Spanish colonialism or even going back to indigenous Central and South American culture.
Rojas, who coined the term “Latino Urbanism,” has been researching and writing about it for 30 years. His Los Angeles-based planning firm is called Place It!
— Streetsblog
Streetsblog interviews MIT-trained, LA-based urban planner James Rojas. When asked if and how principles of Latino Urbanism are being applied to traditional, tactical urbanism, Rojas says: "A lot of it is based on values. As a Latino planner, our whole value towards place is, 'How do you survive here?' I think more planners grew up more in places of perfection. If you grow up in communities of color, there is no wrong or right, there’s just how to get by."
To hear more from James Rojas, listen to Archinect Session's 2016 podcast conversation with him and designer S. Surface about the use of space by the Latinx and queer community following the Pulse nightclub mass shooting.
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