YORK URBAN VILLAGE
Colloqate and York Collective aligned to envision a cultural district in Old Town/NW Portland that reestablishes thriving Black, Afro-Indigenous, and Indigenous communities in a place that holds deep historical significance despite generations of displacement and erasure.
PORTLAND
Partners and Collaborators: York Collective
Location: Northwest Portland/ Old Town
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6/2025- 10/2025
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02 Cease Implementation of Hostile Design
03 Abolist Carceral Spaces
04 Restructure Relationship to Power + Capital
YORK URBAN VILLAGE IS A MIXED-USE CULTURAL HERITAGE DISTRICT DESIGNED AS AN INTER-GENERATIONAL, AGE-FRIENDLY, CLIMATE SOLUTIONS-FOCUSED COMMUNITY. Community land ownership, wealth building opportunities and anti-displacement strategies are highly valued and materialized in the community design and governance structure. The York Urban Village is a place designed by York Collective through collaborative programming and advocacy, rooted in the principles of Black & Indigenous Liberation.
The disastrous pollution of Portland Harbor has chronically and acutely impacted the health of generations of Black and Indigenous families whose sustenance and sovereignty were tied to the river. These communities’ property (commercial, cultural, residential) and labor has been expropriated and exploited for centuries. For the multigenerational Black, Afro-Indigenous, and Indigenous communities we are centering—and who comprise the founding membership of York Collective—storytelling, environmental stewardship, wellbeing and permanency through land ownership are tools of resistance and survival.
