A L Brand
Biographic Data
| ID | 46493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A L Brand |
| GIVEN NAMES | A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Brand |
| SIGNATURE | BRAND A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1004-6892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Is Walk Score white score? Deconstructing a walkability algorithm in the context of racial capitalism
Syncopating the Ground Rhythm: W. E. B. Du Bois and Black Geographic Futurity on New Orleans’s North Claiborne Avenue
This research reads New Orleans’s North Claiborne’s 22-block landscape through a Du Boisian cartographic analytic that traces the ground rhythms of white supremacy and the syncopating daily life of Blacks residents’ resistance to racial oppression. Drawing on Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro as well as his work of speculative fiction, The Princess Steel, and cartographic experiments for the 1900 Paris World Exposition, and through textual and vis…
Claiborne love song: Black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom
This paper focuses on a temporally and geographically scaled Black geographical praxis and history of place-making along New Orleans’s North Claiborne Avenue. Employing both visual and textual examinations of North Claiborne in the post-reconstruction moment, it argues for a representation and reading of Black geographical praxis, the everyday habits, spatial lives and geographical claims in and along such corridors, as a temporally scaled and ca…
Getting By and Getting Out: How Residents of Louisiana’s Frontline Communities Are Adapting to Environmental Change
Scholars argue that U.S. programs and policy designed to help households adapt to or move away from environmental risk were not designed to address climate change. Others demonstrate that disaster response upholds and produces structural inequality. This article examines how existing mitigation and adaptation policies fail to respond to lived conditions of residents and communities on the front lines of environmental change and perpetuate inequal…
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, one of the axioms of a "just recovery" was to redevelop the city's historic high ground. While the call to limit the city's footprint problematized low-lying geographies, the majority of which were Black, it ignored Lakeview, a low-lying, predominantly white neighborhood devastated by Katrina. Despite its vulnerability to flooding, Lakeview has thrived in the years following Katrina. Property values are rising an…
Decolonizing the Green City: From Environmental Privilege to Emancipatory Green Justice
The expanding reach of urban greening across the United States and beyond often materially and immaterially impacts communities of color, leading to displacement and decreased access to new urban amenities. While many scholars point to the persistence of racial inequality, we observe the urban greening orthodoxy in urban planning and development as evidencing a deeper strain of environmental injustice bound up in the legacy and continuance of Whi…
Black Mecca futures: Re-Membering New Orleans’s Claiborne Avenue
New Orleans’s Claiborne Avenue is a liminal and rebellious space. It has signified the vibrant Black cultural and business sphere that countered Jim Crow segregation. It has signified adaptability in the face of urban renewal type clearance. And it continues to signify the potency of space for holding, hosting and emboldening Black life. Using a Black geographic reading of a community vision for this community’s future, I suggest this plan offers…
Colorblind transit planning: Modern streetcars in Washington, DC, and New Orleans
This article analyzes case studies of the H Street Streetcar in Washington, DC, and the Rampart Streetcar in New Orleans, two newly built U.S. streetcars that are part of a national trend of modern streetcar investments. We situate these investments within state-led gentrification that exacerbates racial disparities by expanding White privilege in Black neighborhoods and reshaping racial geographies. While supporters rationalize streetcars as eco…
Racial Capital, Abolition, and a Geographic Argument for Reparations
Tracing the development of Lehman Brothers from their roots as a dry goods store in Montgomery, Alabama, into a Fortune 500 global financial services company that collapsed in the 2007 financial crisis reveals the contours of US-style racial capitalism. We highlight how race and capital are geographically rooted in the United States. At the heart of our argument is an understanding of the geographic imperative of capital which creates and exploit…
Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship: Toward an Emancipatory, Antisubordination, Intersectional, and Relational Approach
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting urban ecosystems to enhancing built environments and climate resilience or improving health outcomes. In this article, we expand the theoretical boundaries used to challenge this growing orthodoxy by laying out a nuanced framework that advances critical u…
From landscapes of utopia to the margins of the green urban life: For whom is the new green city
Today, municipal decision-makers, planners, and investors rely on valuation studies of ecosystem services, public health assessments, and real estate projections to promote a consensual view of urban greening interventions such as new parks, greenways, or greenbelts as a public good with widespread benefits for all residents. However, as new green projects often anchor major investment and high-end development, we ask: Does the green city fulfil …
The duality of space: The built world of Du Bois' double-consciousness
Using Du Bois' concept of double-consciousness, this article explores African Americans' responses to urban redevelopment strategies that undermine their claims to urban space. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this study centers residents' visions for urban redevelopment, which reveal the severe economic, social, and spatial inequalities that they have historically faced but also the beauty and vibrancy of these communities. This article explores…
Urban planning, community (re)development and environmental gentrification
This chapter examines how so-called urban greening and sustainability approaches can produce or exacerbate environmental inequities and how select urban communities are beginning to organize against new injustices. It focuses on the US and examines diverse examples of urban environmental inequity produced in the context of neighborhood greening and community (re)development. In the analysis of community-based environmental revitalization in Bosto…
The Politics of Defining and Building Equity in the Twenty-First Century
This research interrogates the meaning of equity in the twenty-first century and analyzes how residents’ ideas about the meaning of equity reflect different material and political agendas, divided between neoliberal and redistributive approaches to redevelopment. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in three neighborhoods in post-Katrina New Orleans, this research compares residents’ conceptualizations of equity and argues that the meaning o…
From landscapes of utopia to the margins of the green urban life: For whom is the new green city
Today, municipal decision-makers, planners, and investors rely on valuation studies of ecosystem services, public health assessments, and real estate projections to promote a consensual view of urban greening interventions such as new parks, greenways, or greenbelts as a public good with widespread benefits for all residents. However, as new green projects often anchor major investment and high-end development, we ask: Does the green city fulfil …
Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship: Toward an Emancipatory, Antisubordination, Intersectional, and Relational Approach
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting urban ecosystems to enhancing built environments and climate resilience or improving health outcomes. In this article, we expand the theoretical boundaries used to challenge this growing orthodoxy by laying out a nuanced framework that advances critical u…
The duality of space: The built world of Du Bois' double-consciousness
Using Du Bois' concept of double-consciousness, this article explores African Americans' responses to urban redevelopment strategies that undermine their claims to urban space. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this study centers residents' visions for urban redevelopment, which reveal the severe economic, social, and spatial inequalities that they have historically faced but also the beauty and vibrancy of these communities. This article explores…
Racial Capital, Abolition, and a Geographic Argument for Reparations
Tracing the development of Lehman Brothers from their roots as a dry goods store in Montgomery, Alabama, into a Fortune 500 global financial services company that collapsed in the 2007 financial crisis reveals the contours of US-style racial capitalism. We highlight how race and capital are geographically rooted in the United States. At the heart of our argument is an understanding of the geographic imperative of capital which creates and exploit…
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, one of the axioms of a "just recovery" was to redevelop the city's historic high ground. While the call to limit the city's footprint problematized low-lying geographies, the majority of which were Black, it ignored Lakeview, a low-lying, predominantly white neighborhood devastated by Katrina. Despite its vulnerability to flooding, Lakeview has thrived in the years following Katrina. Property values are rising an…
The Politics of Defining and Building Equity in the Twenty-First Century
This research interrogates the meaning of equity in the twenty-first century and analyzes how residents’ ideas about the meaning of equity reflect different material and political agendas, divided between neoliberal and redistributive approaches to redevelopment. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in three neighborhoods in post-Katrina New Orleans, this research compares residents’ conceptualizations of equity and argues that the meaning o…
Claiborne love song: Black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom
This paper focuses on a temporally and geographically scaled Black geographical praxis and history of place-making along New Orleans’s North Claiborne Avenue. Employing both visual and textual examinations of North Claiborne in the post-reconstruction moment, it argues for a representation and reading of Black geographical praxis, the everyday habits, spatial lives and geographical claims in and along such corridors, as a temporally scaled and ca…
Black Mecca futures: Re-Membering New Orleans’s Claiborne Avenue
New Orleans’s Claiborne Avenue is a liminal and rebellious space. It has signified the vibrant Black cultural and business sphere that countered Jim Crow segregation. It has signified adaptability in the face of urban renewal type clearance. And it continues to signify the potency of space for holding, hosting and emboldening Black life. Using a Black geographic reading of a community vision for this community’s future, I suggest this plan offers…
Syncopating the Ground Rhythm: W. E. B. Du Bois and Black Geographic Futurity on New Orleans’s North Claiborne Avenue
This research reads New Orleans’s North Claiborne’s 22-block landscape through a Du Boisian cartographic analytic that traces the ground rhythms of white supremacy and the syncopating daily life of Blacks residents’ resistance to racial oppression. Drawing on Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro as well as his work of speculative fiction, The Princess Steel, and cartographic experiments for the 1900 Paris World Exposition, and through textual and vis…
The Politics of Defining and Building Equity in the Twenty-First Century
This research interrogates the meaning of equity in the twenty-first century and analyzes how residents’ ideas about the meaning of equity reflect different material and political agendas, divided between neoliberal and redistributive approaches to redevelopment. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in three neighborhoods in post-Katrina New Orleans, this research compares residents’ conceptualizations of equity and argues that the meaning o…
Urban planning, community (re)development and environmental gentrification
This chapter examines how so-called urban greening and sustainability approaches can produce or exacerbate environmental inequities and how select urban communities are beginning to organize against new injustices. It focuses on the US and examines diverse examples of urban environmental inequity produced in the context of neighborhood greening and community (re)development. In the analysis of community-based environmental revitalization in Bosto…
From landscapes of utopia to the margins of the green urban life: For whom is the new green city
Today, municipal decision-makers, planners, and investors rely on valuation studies of ecosystem services, public health assessments, and real estate projections to promote a consensual view of urban greening interventions such as new parks, greenways, or greenbelts as a public good with widespread benefits for all residents. However, as new green projects often anchor major investment and high-end development, we ask: Does the green city fulfil …
The duality of space: The built world of Du Bois' double-consciousness
Using Du Bois' concept of double-consciousness, this article explores African Americans' responses to urban redevelopment strategies that undermine their claims to urban space. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this study centers residents' visions for urban redevelopment, which reveal the severe economic, social, and spatial inequalities that they have historically faced but also the beauty and vibrancy of these communities. This article explores…
Colorblind transit planning: Modern streetcars in Washington, DC, and New Orleans
This article analyzes case studies of the H Street Streetcar in Washington, DC, and the Rampart Streetcar in New Orleans, two newly built U.S. streetcars that are part of a national trend of modern streetcar investments. We situate these investments within state-led gentrification that exacerbates racial disparities by expanding White privilege in Black neighborhoods and reshaping racial geographies. While supporters rationalize streetcars as eco…
Racial Capital, Abolition, and a Geographic Argument for Reparations
Tracing the development of Lehman Brothers from their roots as a dry goods store in Montgomery, Alabama, into a Fortune 500 global financial services company that collapsed in the 2007 financial crisis reveals the contours of US-style racial capitalism. We highlight how race and capital are geographically rooted in the United States. At the heart of our argument is an understanding of the geographic imperative of capital which creates and exploit…
Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship: Toward an Emancipatory, Antisubordination, Intersectional, and Relational Approach
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges, from protecting urban ecosystems to enhancing built environments and climate resilience or improving health outcomes. In this article, we expand the theoretical boundaries used to challenge this growing orthodoxy by laying out a nuanced framework that advances critical u…
Decolonizing the Green City: From Environmental Privilege to Emancipatory Green Justice
The expanding reach of urban greening across the United States and beyond often materially and immaterially impacts communities of color, leading to displacement and decreased access to new urban amenities. While many scholars point to the persistence of racial inequality, we observe the urban greening orthodoxy in urban planning and development as evidencing a deeper strain of environmental injustice bound up in the legacy and continuance of Whi…
Black Mecca futures: Re-Membering New Orleans’s Claiborne Avenue
New Orleans’s Claiborne Avenue is a liminal and rebellious space. It has signified the vibrant Black cultural and business sphere that countered Jim Crow segregation. It has signified adaptability in the face of urban renewal type clearance. And it continues to signify the potency of space for holding, hosting and emboldening Black life. Using a Black geographic reading of a community vision for this community’s future, I suggest this plan offers…
Getting By and Getting Out: How Residents of Louisiana’s Frontline Communities Are Adapting to Environmental Change
Scholars argue that U.S. programs and policy designed to help households adapt to or move away from environmental risk were not designed to address climate change. Others demonstrate that disaster response upholds and produces structural inequality. This article examines how existing mitigation and adaptation policies fail to respond to lived conditions of residents and communities on the front lines of environmental change and perpetuate inequal…
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, one of the axioms of a "just recovery" was to redevelop the city's historic high ground. While the call to limit the city's footprint problematized low-lying geographies, the majority of which were Black, it ignored Lakeview, a low-lying, predominantly white neighborhood devastated by Katrina. Despite its vulnerability to flooding, Lakeview has thrived in the years following Katrina. Property values are rising an…
Claiborne love song: Black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom
This paper focuses on a temporally and geographically scaled Black geographical praxis and history of place-making along New Orleans’s North Claiborne Avenue. Employing both visual and textual examinations of North Claiborne in the post-reconstruction moment, it argues for a representation and reading of Black geographical praxis, the everyday habits, spatial lives and geographical claims in and along such corridors, as a temporally scaled and ca…
Syncopating the Ground Rhythm: W. E. B. Du Bois and Black Geographic Futurity on New Orleans’s North Claiborne Avenue
This research reads New Orleans’s North Claiborne’s 22-block landscape through a Du Boisian cartographic analytic that traces the ground rhythms of white supremacy and the syncopating daily life of Blacks residents’ resistance to racial oppression. Drawing on Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro as well as his work of speculative fiction, The Princess Steel, and cartographic experiments for the 1900 Paris World Exposition, and through textual and vis…
Is Walk Score white score? Deconstructing a walkability algorithm in the context of racial capitalism
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