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CTV News
09-05-2025
- Automotive
- CTV News
Most streets in Montreal are not safe for pedestrians: study
There are new concerns that Montreal streets and intersections have been built with cars in mind and aren't safe for pedestrians.
Fast Company
06-05-2025
- Business
- Fast Company
This Black design collective is incubating the next generation of community builders
Across the United States, there is a long history of communities of color being underserved—if not outright oppressed—by the dominant modes of urban planning and development. But for the past 10 years, a collective of architects, designers, artists, and urban planners called BlackSpace has been rethinking how communities of color get designed and built. Now, the group is trying to build up the ranks of practitioners working alongside communities of color in the built environment to make sure their needs are no longer overlooked or ignored. To spread this work through young and emerging firms, BlackSpace has launched Studio KIN (Kinfolx Imagining Neighborhoods), a business accelerator focused on bringing resources, funding, and community to Black-founded ventures that produce services and products focused on the built environment. The incubator's first cohort has just been announced. 'When we think about spatial justice, we think a lot about how it's realized through having the folks that are planning, designing, and building neighborhoods that reflect the places that they're serving,' says Kenyatta McLean, co-managing director of BlackSpace. 'We developed Studio KIN to be a home for those urbanists that are working to meet communities where they're at.' advertisement The final deadline for Fast Company's Brands That Matter Awards is Friday, May 30, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today.
