ABSTRACT
Accessibility, integration, equal opportunity, and other democratic values can be reinforced by place. Efforts toward greater social equity include evolving designs for libraries, schools, workplaces, housing, and neighborhoods that welcome all and promote universal access. Places can support social equity through promoting assimilation to the majority culture or through celebrating the differences creating variety and richness. How can they support both? How can making places foster and celebrate social equity, and contribute to a more just world? This may be the hardest question of all as design work is often commissioned by power and wealth.
