Indigenous Urban Planning

Where Indigenous Land Values & Urban Planning Abide

Equitable Land Use Planning & Policies Integral to Indigenous Ark’s Mission

Anyone who has ever suffered from housing insecurity might understand how without land or land use rights, there is no fundamental equitability. The same dynamic would hold true, at a community level. Political visibility, cultural identity, environmental stewardship, and intergenerational transitions are all dependent on how a society determines land use rights. However, these areas of social studies are largely, and in most cases, entirely absent from modern education. Given that the planetary condition largely results from the current distribution and applicatoin of land rights, the area of land use is integral to the mission of Indigenous Ark Urban Technologies.

“We all share one planet and are one humanity; there is no escaping this reality”- Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Environmental Political Activist and Nobel Laureate

Policy on Planning Practice and Reconciliation (Canadian Institute of Planners)

Intergenerational Ingenuity: Indigenous Urban Planning & Design

Indian Cities: Histories Of Indigenous Urbanism

American Indian Cultural District (AICD): To Empower the American Indian voice of the SF Bay Area (2020)

This East Bay city will be first to allow an Indigenous group the exclusive right to use city land – San Francisco

Indigenous Action to address Climate Change is rooted in Indigenous Knowledge Systems Created over Centuries that are as Diverse as the Communities and Ecosystems from which they Emerge

Eight Examples of Using Indigenous Knowledge for Urban Biodiversity

Listening to the land to design an urban Indigenous healthcare facility

‘American Indian Cultural District’ proposed for heart of the Mission, San Francisco

The Case for Greater Indigenous Representation in Urban Design

Los Angeles’ Westside Community Planning Advisory Group

The Collateral Damage from Urban Planning