Hutson The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice

Deepening their roots
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-59555-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series

This book discusses how strong-market cities are pressured to remain on the cutting edge of innovation by continuously looking for ways to develop and enhance their local economy. It captures the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos and other people of colour out of certain strong-market cities and the growing fear of displacement among low-income urban residents. The book documents the efforts by these populations to remain in their communities despite and highlights how this leads to community organizing around economic, environmental, and social justice. It shows how residents of once neglected urban communities are standing up to city economic development agencies, influential real estate developers, universities, and others to remain in their neighbourhoods, protect their interests, and transform their communities to sustainable healthy communities. These communities are deploying new strategies that diverge from the past struggles over urban renewal. Based on seven-years of research, it draws on a wealth of material to conduct a case study analysis of eight low-income/mixed-income communities in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

This timely book is aimed at researchers and postgraduate students interested in urban policy and politics, community development, urban studies, environmental justice, urban public health, sociology, community-based research methods, and urban planning theory and practice. It will also be of interest to policy-makers, community activists, and the private sector.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutson, Malo André

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The New Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice 2. Our Changing Landscape 3. Boston: The fight for quality jobs 4. Brookylyn: The struggle for inclusive governance and transparency 5. San Francisco: The fight to preserve the mission district 6. Washington DC: 'Chocolate city' is changing 7. Deepending their Roots: The urban struggle for economic, environmental and social justice

Über Autor(innen)

Malo Andre Hutson is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley and a faculty affiliate of the UC Berkeley/UCSF Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars program, USA.