Just Cities

The Struggle for Urban Racial and Climate Justice
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-19-769873-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

While urban planners are increasingly embracing equity goals, the profession has historically helped create the unjust landscapes it is now seeks to address. In Just Cities, Joan Fitzgerald and Julian Agyeman reveal how today's urban climate problems^—^flooding, heat, and pollution^—^are rooted in decades of planning and policy decisions that concentrated environmental harms in Black and low-income neighborhoods, creating unequal risk to the impacts of climate change. This dual legacy^—^aspiring to justice while institutionalizing inequity^—^shapes both the possibilities and the limits of current climate planning.

Most analyses of climate equity and justice focus narrowly on the goals and implementation of climate action plans. Just Cities instead examines the deeper structural relationship between urban planning, racial injustice, and climate change, arguing that they are inseparable. As movements for racial and environmental justice converge, the book reveals how cities and grass roots advocates can work together to undo past harm and build fairer, more resilient, and sustainable communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzgerald, Joan

Agyeman, Julian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Urban Planning, Racial Inequality, and the Climate Crisis

- 2: Undoing the Harm of Racial Discrimination

- 3: Austin: Green City in a Red State

- 4: Boston: A Racist Legacy and the Struggle for Resources

- 5: Minneapolis: Struggling to Make a Green City a Just City

- 6: Oakland: Visionary Plans, Fiscal Realities, and the Fight for Climate Justice

- 7: Implementing a Reparative Planning Agenda

Über Autor(innen)

Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor in the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. Fitzgerald focuses on the link between urban climate action, equity, and economic opportunity in cities in North America and the European Union. Fitzgerald recently led a team at the Dukakis Center that conducted the research to support Boston's Climate Ready Workforce Action Plan. Her research now examines how Positive Energy Districts can accelerate urban climate action, building on previous work. Her books include Greenovation (Oxford Univ. Press, 2020) and Emerald Cities (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010).

Julian Agyeman is a Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, at Tufts University. He is a critical urban planning and environmental social science scholar. He centers his research on critical explorations of the complex and embodied relations between humans and the urban environment, whether mediated by governments or social movement

organizations, and their effects on public policy and planning processes and outcomes, particularly in relation to notions of justice and equity. His books include Cultivating Food Justice (MIT Press, 2011) and Introducing Just Sustainabilities (Bloomsbury, 2013).