Injustice in Urban Sustainability: Ten Core Drivers

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Title

Injustice in Urban Sustainability: Ten Core Drivers

Subject

Built Environment
Environment and Sustainability
Geography
Global Development
Social Sciences
Urban Studies

Description

This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims of sustainability.

Aligned with critical environmental justice studies, the book highlights the contradictions of urban sustainability in relation to justice. It argues that urban neighbourhoods cannot be greener, more sustainable and liveable unless their communities are strengthened by the protection of the right to housing, public space, infrastructure and healthy amenities. Linked to the individual drivers, ten short empirical case studies from across Europe and North America provide a systematic analysis of research, policy and practice conducted under urban sustainability agendas in cities such as Barcelona, Glasgow, Athens, Boston and Montréal, and show how social and environmental justice is, or is not, being taken into account. By doing so, the book uncovers the risks of continuing urban sustainability agendas while ignoring, and therefore perpetuating, systemic drivers of inequity and injustice operating within and outside of the city.

Accessibly written for students in urban studies, critical geography and planning, this is a useful and analytical synthesis of issues relating to urban sustainability, environmental and social justice.

Creator

Panagiota Kotsila
Isabelle Anguelovski
Melissa García-Lamarca
Filka Sekulova

Source

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003221425

Publisher

Routledge

Date

2022

Contributor

Andri Yanti

Rights

Creative Commons,
CC BY-NC-ND

Format

Pdf

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003221425

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