Background
June Manning Thomas was born on June 20, 1950, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States to the family of a college president Hubert Vernon Manning and a college professor Ethel Braynon.
1961
Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States
June Manning Thomas age 11, with her parents and sister, Michelle.
1966
Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States
In high school, June Manning Thomas was a U.S. Presidential Scholar and met President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1967
Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States
June Manning Thomas with her schoolmates. She is second from the left.
2017
United states
June Thomas with her husband, Dr. Richard Thomas.
(A growing cooperation between the public and private sect...)
A growing cooperation between the public and private sectors indicates that the tasks of redevelopment are too large and complex for either sector to accomplish alone. Some people maintain that the government can do few things right; others are equally distrustful of the private sector. As used here, the private sector is considered to be all that is not the government. Each of the success stories illustrated is, in part, a "road to recovery," although none appear to have been influenced by a purpose that broad.
https://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Americas-Cities-Roads-Recovery/dp/0882850997/?tag=2022091-20
1984
(Hub of the American auto industry and site of the celebra...)
Hub of the American auto industry and site of the celebrated Riverfront Renaissance, Detroit is also a city of extraordinary poverty, unemployment, and racial segregation. This duality in one of the mightiest industrial metropolises of twentieth-century North America is the focus of this study. Viewing the Motor City in light of sociology, geography, history, and planning, the authors examine the genesis of modern Detroit. They argue that the current situation of metropolitan Detroit economic decentralization, chronic racial and class segregation, regional political fragmentation is a logical result of trends that have gradually escalated throughout the post-World War II era. Examining its recent redevelopment policies and the ensuing political conflicts, Darden, Hill, Thomas, and Thomas, discuss where Detroit has been and where it is going.
https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Uneven-Development-Comparative-American/dp/0877224854/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(Unequal Partnerships explores urban development in Americ...)
Unequal Partnerships explores urban development in American cities since World War II. Gregory D. Squires and other contributors examine what has long been a highly inequitable and destructive process of urban development. They look at the political and social assumptions and interests shaping redevelopment, the social and economic costs of development for the vast majority of urban residents, and alternative approaches emerging. The book begins with an overview of the ideological forces that have shaped urban economic development in the United States from the urban renewal days of the 1950s and 1960s through the celebration of public-private partnerships in the 1980s. Subsequent chapters examine specific cities in light of the consequences of development initiatives.
https://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Partnerships-Political-Redevelopment-American/dp/0813514525/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(Since the 1950s and the advance of urban renewal, local g...)
Since the 1950s and the advance of urban renewal, local governments and urban policy have focused heavily on the central business district. Today, promoters of downtown development still emphasize office and retail expansion, convention centers, sports arenas, festival market places, and tourist attractions. But, as the authors of this volume demonstrate, such development has all but ignored the inner-city neighborhoods that continue to struggle in the shadows of high-rise America. Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods addresses that alarming oversight. This up-to-date analysis of urban neighborhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents fifteen original and thought-provoking essays by many of the leading scholars of urban planning and development.
https://www.amazon.com/Revitalizing-Neighborhoods-Studies-Government-Public/dp/0700607900/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Clarifying the historical connections between the African...)
Clarifying the historical connections between the African-American population in the United States and the urban planning profession, this book suggests means by which cooperation and justice may be increased. Chapters examine: the racial origins of zoning in US cities; how Eurocentric family models have shaped planning processes of cities such as Los Angeles; and diversifying planning education in order to advance the profession. There is also a chapter of excerpts from court cases and government reports that have shaped or reflected the racial aspects of urban planning.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803972342/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(In the decades following World War II, professional city ...)
In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet in those same decades, Detroit was transformed from a city that enjoyed liveable neighborhoods, healthy commercial strips, a bustling downtown, and beautiful parks into the notorious symbol of urban decay that it is today.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080185444X/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic bas...)
Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city only if it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit, initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage-not through artificial inducements, charity, or government. Porter's ideas have prompted endorsement as well as criticism. More importantly, they have inspired a search for new solutions to inner-city distress as well as a reassessment of current approaches. The Inner City defines a core debate in the United States over the future of a racially divided urban America. It is of inestimable importance to policy analysts, government officials, African American studies scholars, urban studies specialists, sociologists, and all those concerned with inner city revitalization.
https://www.amazon.com/Inner-City-Poverty-Economic-Development/dp/1138536334/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(This anthology responds to a growing concern about urban ...)
This anthology responds to a growing concern about urban and community development, and the role of corporate power. These essays focus on key themes of land ownership and management, community resistance against corporate agendas, and public discourse over these issues. These themes are presented and developed within an interdisciplinary framework which includes information and commentary about history, contemporary politics, economic development, and ideology. Most of the chapters include case studies that provide concrete examples of contemporary developments in urban areas, and each chapter includes discussion questions and a list of keywords and terms to help guide the reader.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0739137441/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(The City After Abandonment brings together essays from to...)
The City After Abandonment brings together essays from top urban planning experts to focus on policy and planning issues related to three questions. What are cities becoming after abandonment? The rise of community gardens and artists' installations in Detroit and St. Louis reveal numerous unexamined impacts of population decline on the development of these cities. Why these outcomes? By analyzing post-hurricane policy in New Orleans, the acceptance of becoming a smaller city in Youngstown, Ohio, and targeted assistance to small areas of Baltimore, Cleveland, and Detroit, this book assesses how varied institutions and policies affect the process of change in cities where demand for property is very weak. What should abandoned areas of cities become? Assuming growth is not a choice, this book assesses widely cited formulas for addressing vacancy; analyzes the sustainability plans of Cleveland, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; suggests an urban design scheme for shrinking cities; and lays out ways policymakers and planners can approach the future through processes and ideas that differ from those in growing cities.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081224446X/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(One of Detroit's most defining modern characteristics-and...)
One of Detroit's most defining modern characteristics-and most pressing dilemmas-is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how Detroit moved from frontier fort to thriving industrial metropolis to today's high-vacancy city. With contributors ranging from a map archivist and a historian to architects, urban designers, and urban planners, Mapping Detroit brings a unique perspective to the historical causes, contemporary effects, and potential future of Detroit's transformed landscape.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814340261/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(The history of planning is much more, according to these ...)
The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Invisible-Visible-Multicultural-California/dp/0520207343/?tag=2022091-20
June Manning Thomas was born on June 20, 1950, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States to the family of a college president Hubert Vernon Manning and a college professor Ethel Braynon.
June Manning Thomas attended the local white high school in Orangeburg in 1964. She enrolled at Furman in the fall of 1967 as one of the university’s first African-American women, and while there, she joined the Southern Student Organizing Committee, an organization that fought for civil and student rights. In February 1968, she took part in a "sympathy march" to protest the Orangeburg Massacre, in which police killed three African-American students and wounded 28 more in her hometown. She left Furman after her freshman year to attend Michigan State University, where she majored in sociology. In 1977, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan.
June Manning Thomas is a Centennial Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She has been named the Mary Frances Berry Distinguished University Professor, effective September 1, 2016.
In 2003 Thomas was inducted as a Fellow in the American Institute of Certified Planners. She was the President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (2013-2015) and now serves as Immediate Past President (2015-2016).
Thomas' books include the co-edited Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows (Sage, 1996); Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, second edition Wayne State University Press, 2013); Planning Progress: Lessons from Shoghi Effendi (Association for Baha'i Studies, 1999); the co-edited, Margaret Dewar and June Thomas, The City after Abandonment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), and the co-edited, June Thomas and Henco Bekkering, Mapping Detroit: Evolving Land Use Patterns and Connections (Wayne State University Press, 2015). Thomas writes about the diversification of the planning profession, planning history, and social equity in neighborhoods and urban revitalization. Recent research explored the relationship between the concept of social equity and the civil rights movement and examined the land-use reactions of community organizations to vacant land in Detroit.
June Manning Thomas previously was a professor at Michigan State University, where she developed statewide initiatives to link urban planning services on campus with community development needs in Michigan cities.
(Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic bas...)
1997(Clarifying the historical connections between the African...)
1996(Hub of the American auto industry and site of the celebra...)
1987(A growing cooperation between the public and private sect...)
1984(In the decades following World War II, professional city ...)
1997(The City After Abandonment brings together essays from to...)
2012(Since the 1950s and the advance of urban renewal, local g...)
1996(The history of planning is much more, according to these ...)
(One of Detroit's most defining modern characteristics-and...)
2015(This anthology responds to a growing concern about urban ...)
2009(Unequal Partnerships explores urban development in Americ...)
1989June Manning Thomas and her husband are active members of the Bahá'í Faith, a belief system which has fueled their professional interests in promoting racial and international unity.
National Properties Committee of the Baha’i Faith , United States
Planning Commission of Meridian Township , United States
Lansing Fair Housing Center , United States
American Planning Association , United States
American Institute of Certified Planners , United States
Association for Collegiate Schools of Planning , United States
Society for American City and Regional Planning History , United States
Planners Network , United States
Association for Baha’i Studies , United States
Danforth Associates , United States
Michigan State University Black Faculty and Administrators’ Association , United States
Phi Beta Kappa , United States
June Manning Thomas married a college professor Richard W. Thomas on April 11, 1971; children: Kemba Thomas Mazloomian and Ali Manning Thomas.