Eric Robsky Huntley

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer in Urban Science and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Architecture, urban studies, planning, and allied fields are rife with extractive, colonial, racist, and otherwise harmful research activities that are complicit in, or actively support, white supremacy. Identifying a positive vision of research that supports racially just outcomes and differentiating it from efforts that simply study racialized di...

Community residents have repeatedly organized and identified policy solutions to address rapidly increasing housing pressures within the greater Boston area. However, resident expertise is often dismissed as anecdotal. Since 2015, The Healthy Neighborhoods Research Consortium (HNRC) has used a participatory action research (PAR) approach to articul...

The University of Michigan Department of Geography was discontinued in 1982, after a grueling review process that saw the discipline’s necessity very publicly called into question. Despite the fact that Michigan’s department was central to most of twentieth-century academic geography’s major intellectual movements, it was also the first in a series...

In the 1930s, the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) maps nationalized racial residential segregation via "redlining," whereby the color red designated areas with black, foreign-born, or low-income residents, which were deemed unsuitable for mortgage lending. We used the recently digitized HOLC redlining maps for 28 municipalities in Mass...

This article provides an introduction and overview of the societal impacts and ethics of GIS. The article is divided into three main parts. First, we provide a brief history of how ethics have been implemented and understood following World War II, and more specifically in GIS and digital mapping. We then examine ethics in two case studies: predict...