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Planning, Urban Revitalization, and the Inner City: An Exploration of Structural Racism

Graduate City Planning Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Regional Transportation Authority.

Nancey Green Leigh

Graduate City Planning Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The almost inextricable weaving together of the issues of race and inner-city revitalization presents a complex and seemingly intractable problem for urban and regional planners, scholars, policymakers, activists, and citizens. This article presents an overview of the dilemma from a city and regional planning perspective. It begins with a brief summary of basic planning theory, followed by a more detailed description of specific theories of revitalization, as well as a discussion of four of the most important forces of structural racism that confront inner cities. The article closes with a discussion of those approaches that have shown some promise and with suggestions for potential new approaches that will promote successful inner-city revitalization and reduce the isolation and deprivation of racial minorities inhabiting America’s cities.

Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 14, No. 3, 367-380 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/08854120022092719


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