Mindy Thompson Fullilove is a writer and social psychiatrist dedicated to examining the relationship between environment and mental health. She combines her family background of activism in Orange, NJ, her psychiatric practice, and her urbanism mentorship with renowned French Urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart to identify the intersections of community development and public health. Dr. Fullilove holds a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and an M.S./M.D. from Columbia University.
How do Main Streets contribute to our mental health? This intriguing question took social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove on an 11-year search through 178 cities in 14 countries. From these visits Fullilove has discerned the larger architecture of Main Streets: the ways that Main Streets are shaped for a vast array of social gatherings and processes, how they are a marker for the integrity of civilization—and the marks aren’t always good.
Root Shock examines three different US cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.
A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs’ lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs’ economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs’ insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
