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At the UB Center for Urban Studies, our mission is to build healthy communities and create just cities and metropolitan regions. We envision vibrant neighborhoods rooted in community control, participatory democracy, and cooperative economics—urban spaces that are people-centered and grounded in social, economic, political, cultural, and racial justice.

To bring this vision to life, we employ a transformative neighborhood planning strategy and engage in radical neighborhood planning and community development. We ground neighborhood planning in the values of inclusion and belonging, solidarity, community control, communal ownership, control of market dynamics, and community wealth building.

We collaborate with residents, community groups, and partner organizations to transform underdeveloped and marginalized neighborhoods into healthy, thriving, and joyful communities governed and shaped by the people who live there.

We aim to build a just world—one where Black people and communities of color live in dignity, control their own destinies, and realize their full human potential. In this free and liberated society, inclusion, equity, and justice—social, racial, economic, cultural, and political—will serve as the foundation. At the heart of this vision is participatory democracy, where people actively shape the decisions that affect their lives and communities.

At the UB Center for Urban Studies, we seek to understand the world so that we can change it.