The Just City Essays
Subtitle: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
By: edited by Toni L. Griffin, Ariella Cohen, David Maddox
Publisher: J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York; Next City; Nature of Cities
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781495184239
Subjects: City planning; Moral and ethical aspects; Urban policy; Municipal government; Social justice
Notes: "Over the past decade, there have been numerous conversations about the "livable city," "green city," "sustainable city" and, most recently, the "resilient city." At the same time, today's headlines -- from Ferguson to Baltimore, Paris to Johannesburg -- resound with the need for frank dialogue about the structures and processes that affect the quality of life and livelihoods of urban residents. Issues of equity, inclusion, race, access and ownership remain unresolved in many communities around the world, even as we begin to address the challenges of affordability, climate change adaptation and resilience. The persistence of injustice in the world's cities -- dramatic inequality, unequal environmental burdens and risks and uneven access to opportunity -- demands a continued and reinvigorated search for ideas and solutions."--Page 4.