Home / Series / TED Talks / Aired Order / Season 2018 / Episode 92

Liz Ogbu: What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?

Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources and services is a human right. In San Francisco, she's questioning the all too familiar story of gentrification: that poor people will be pushed out by development and progress. "Why is it that we treat culture erasure and economic displacement as inevitable?" she asks, calling on developers, architects and policymakers to instead "make a commitment to build people's capacity to stay in their homes, to stay in their communities, to stay where they feel whole."

English
  • Originally Aired March 20, 2018
  • Runtime 15 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code LizOgbu_2017W
  • Network YouTube
  • Created April 18, 2019 by
    Administrator admin
  • Modified April 18, 2019 by
    Administrator admin
Name Type Role
Liz Ogbu Guest Star