For the Broadbent Institute’s Perspective Journal, Managing Director of A.M Results, Brittany Andrew-Amofah, interviewed CEO and Co-Founder of Monumental Zahra Ebrahim, on her recently published book Messy Cities, an anthology featuring a collection of authors that complicates the city planning space by forcing us to think beyond policy solutions like housing and infrastructure to solve some of our most pressing local problems.
In the interview, Zahra takes us on a journey explaining and describing the intention and purpose of co-creating the book. Zahra and Brittany explore what it means to classify a city as “messy”, discuss the current state of Toronto beyond its promise of diversity and outdated premise of prosperity, and highlight new and interesting way to approach governance structures. Lastly, Zahra and Brittany remind us that “mess” is not inherently bad, but should be embraced as a point of contention and opportunity that can reinvigorate life in cities — enabling the very residents that live there to reclaim space, propose bottom-up solutions and collectively experience and socialize with each other in new ways.
Read the full interview here.
About Broadbent’s Perspectives Journal:
Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy, delivers ideas and strategy for building a world that is just and equitable. Guided by the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy, Perspectives Journal refines analysis and progressive inquiry of political economy, public policy, history, and social movements, to bring them into public debates and political fora.
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