This is a news and resources distribution group established to support a course I teaqch at the California State University, Northridge, URBS 250: Planning the Multiethnic City. The course syllabus is accessible at: http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/URBS-250.html. Likely topics and area of interest range from race and racism as a factor in planning the built environment, to environmental justice. You are welcome to join, if this topic is of interest to you.