In early 2021, Next City partnered with the High Line to convene a two-part webinar series, also called “The Future of Monumentality.” In it, notable designers, artists, architects, policymakers and activists deconstructed the imperial violence and white supremacist repression at the heart of Western expressions of monumentality, and reimagined the form, function and role of commemoration as we move toward a more inclusive future. (You can also view these recordings in full in our archive, with a pay-what-you-wish donation.) We are not the first era to grapple with these issues — post-Nazi Germany and post-Soviet Eastern Europe faced a similar reckoning in the previous century. These questions remain timely and urgent. At Next City, we imagine cities as places liberated from systems and cultures of oppression. But public space can never fully be free as long as elected officials glorify and support reminders of the genocide and land theft that underpin the “Amer
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