Brick, Grass (&) Steel

Brick, Grass (&) Steel

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Brick, Grass (&) Steel episodes

  • Decades of Dry Pipes
    The Jackson, MS water crisis is a failure on multiple levels, but the people of Jackson have been fighting for a fix and to have a voice in that fix for decades. Please join the discussion with Abre’ Conner, Esq. of the NAACP and Brooke Floyd of the People’s Advocacy Institute to learn about the history, the fight to correct and the outcomes of the efforts to remedy a long-standing infrastructure failure. What can we learn from their work that we can apply to other challenges?

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Climate Adaptation/Climate Gentrification
    Brick, Grass & Steel returns with a conversation about how cities can prepare for the impact of climate change – not “after the disaster” but, hopefully, in anticipation of it. Jesse Keenan, PhD, author of North, and Jane Gilbert, Miami’s first Chief Resilience Officer, talk about how communities can prepare and the challenges that go along with that effort.

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    1 hr 8 min
  • Is rebuilding possible without displacement?
    Hurricane Katrina reshaped New Orleans — and reshaped how America thinks about disaster recovery. In this episode, Andrew Kopplin of the Greater New Orleans Foundation joins Collete English Dixon to reflect on the long shadow of Katrina, the realities of displacement, and the hard lessons about equitable recovery.

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    53 min
  • Scorched Earth: What Burned and Why?
    In the Season 1 finale of Brick, Grass and Steel, host Collete English Dixon is joined by urban planner and equity advocate Dr. Nina Idemudia to reflect on the major themes of the season. Together, they revisit key insights from conversations on segregation, urban renewal, social infrastructure, environmental injustice, and climate resilience — and discuss how these threads set the stage for Season 2. This wrap-up brings clarity, connection, and a forward-looking vision for what it takes to build communities that are equitable, sustainable, and resilient by design.

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    1 hr 8 min
  • How the Climate Crisis Exposes, and Deepens, Inequality
    Climate change doesn’t strike evenly – scholars Brandon Derman and Lesa Johnson join me to explore how the crisis exposes and deepens the inequalities built into our cities and what is means to build a just response to the climate crisis. 

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Race, Place and Pollution: The Fight for Environmental Justice

    Why is environmental justice essential to resilience? Dr. Robert Bullard reveals the history, the fights, and the urgent need for equity in every community.


    View materials from Dr. Bullard's recent report, "Green Light to Pollute in Texas... Again."

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    45 min
  • From History to Action: Undoing Segregation in our Neighborhoods

    Building on Richard Rothstein’s “The Color of Law” and the discussion about urban renewal with Dr. Mindy Fullilove, who wrote “Root Shock”, and Brentin Mock, this discussion with Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein explores how “Just Action” offers a tangible framework for communities to dismantle segregation, influence urban planning and public policy decisions, and build more equitable, integrated communities. 


    If you would like to read more about the topics discussed in this episode arc, please see information below for purchasing the books referenced. Also, you can subscribe to Leah Rothstein’s SubStack platform at https://substack.com/@justaction.


    The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America


    Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It

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    52 min
  • Urban Renewal or Urban Removal?
    Dr. Mindy Fullilove and journalist Brentin Mock explore how urban renewal became “urban removal,” the trauma it caused, and its lasting echoes in today’s redevelopment.

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    59 min
  • Lines that Last: Legal Segregation by Design - A Color of Law Conversation
    In this episode, Richard Rothstein reveals how segregation in American communities was not the result of personal choice or private prejudice, but the outcome of deliberate government policy and industry practice. From housing and zoning laws to mortgage lending and urban planning, he explains how the architecture of inequality was built — and why its legacy still defines our neighborhoods today.

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    35 min

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A podcast exploring how the built environment can support equitable, sustainable and resilient communities. Episodes will address how physical spaces influence survival and recovery in the face of…