In this chapter, we address the origin and the pos si ble future of equity planning. Working in cities characterized by inequalities and power differences along lines of class, race, gender, and more, equity planners have strug gled for de cades to translate lessons about po liti cal structure and organ ization into specific, useful practices serving ends of social justice. In so doing, equity planners have integrated concerns with the "ends" or "outcomes" of social justice with the "pro cess" skills and interactive techniques of organ izing and co ali tion building. They have engaged sensitively and productively with "difference" and listened critically not only to learn, to honor community history, and to re spect community partners but also not least of all to get results. In addition, we will suggest that learning to use social media will matter. Studying urban communities ethnographically via area studies will matter. Examining and rejecting racial privilege will matter. Co ali tion building by mediating differing interests and values will matter. Organ izing and prob lem solving with others in participatory action research will matter. Equity planners will have to assess both the written texts of researchers as well as the lived texts of community members. They will have to learn about potential outcomes and practices, about both goals and methods, about ideals of social justice, as well as about grounded methods of paying re spect and building working relationships with community partners, too.
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