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Just Urban Design

The Struggle for a Public City

Part of Urban and Industrial Environments

Foreword by Lawrence J. Vale
Edited by Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Vinit Mukhija
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The MIT Press
On sale Nov 22, 2022 | 368 Pages | 9780262371070
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Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.

Scholars who write about justice and the city rarely consider the practices and processes of urban design, while discourses on urban design often neglect concerns about justice. The editors of Just Urban Design take the position that urban design interventions have direct and important implications for justice in the city. The contributions in this volume contextualize the state of knowledge about urban design for justice, stress inclusivity as the key to justice in the city, affirm community participation and organizing as cornerstones of greater equity, and assert that a just urban design must center and privilege our most marginalized individuals and communities.
 
Approaching spatial and social justice in the city through the lens of urban design, the contributors explore the possibility of envisioning and delivering social, spatial, and environmental justice in cities through urban design and the material reality of built environment interventions. The editors’ combined expertise includes urban politics and climate change, public space, mobility justice, community development, housing, and informality, and the contributors include researchers and practitioners from urban planning, sociology, anthropology, architecture, and landscape architecture.
 
Contributors: Rachel Berney, Rebecca Choi, Teddy Cruz, Diane E. Davis, Fonna Forman, Christopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Alison B. Hirsch, Jeffrey Hou, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Setha Low, Matthew Jordan Miller, Vinit Mukhija, Chelina Odbert, Francesca Piazzoni, and Michael Rios.
Foreword xi
Lawrence J. Vale
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1 
Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija
I What is Urban Design for Justice? 
1 Just Urban Design Scholarship? Examining Urban Design Theories through a Justice Lens 21
Chritsopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Anastastia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija
2 The Search for Social Justice and Public Space Framework: The Case of Older Adults in New York City During COVID-19 47
Setha Low
3 Urban Design Praxis: A Responsibility for Justice 67
Michael Rios
II What is the Public City and Inclusive Urbanism? 
4 Rethinking Urban Politics through the Lens of Sovereignty: Material Assemblages for Inclusive Urbanism 87
Diane E. Davis
5 Opening up the Private City: Remaking Single-Family Zoning Neighborhoods 105
Vinit Mukhija
6 Reinstating Landscapes of Urban Resistance 125
Allison B. Hirsch
7 Air and Artifice: Bureaucrat Urban Designers in Harlem,1967 147
Rebecca Choi
III Participation and Organizing for Just Design
8 Building Community Capacity as Just Urban Design: Learning from Seattle's Chinatown International District 165
Jeffery Hou
9 Making "Public Space" Truly Public: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Truly Inclusive and Equitable Spaces 183
Chelina Odbert
10 Whose City? Innovations and Imaginaries and the Nehemiah Initiative's Example for Seattle 199
Rachel Berney
11 Designing Just Resilience? Innovation and Discontent in Post-Hurricane Sandy New York 217
Kian Goh
IV Deisgn for Difference
12 Urban Rights: Top Down/Bottom Up 239
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
13 Empowering Difference: Just Urban Design for the Immigrant Street Vendors of Rome 257
Francesca Piazzoni and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
14 Building a Black Public Realm and a Public Culture: Learning from Leimert Park Village 277
Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta
15 The Right to Walk in the Neighborhood: Designing Inclusive Sidewalks for Older Adults 295
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Conclusion: The Struggle for a Public City 315
Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija
Contributors 327
Index 331

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Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.

Scholars who write about justice and the city rarely consider the practices and processes of urban design, while discourses on urban design often neglect concerns about justice. The editors of Just Urban Design take the position that urban design interventions have direct and important implications for justice in the city. The contributions in this volume contextualize the state of knowledge about urban design for justice, stress inclusivity as the key to justice in the city, affirm community participation and organizing as cornerstones of greater equity, and assert that a just urban design must center and privilege our most marginalized individuals and communities.
 
Approaching spatial and social justice in the city through the lens of urban design, the contributors explore the possibility of envisioning and delivering social, spatial, and environmental justice in cities through urban design and the material reality of built environment interventions. The editors’ combined expertise includes urban politics and climate change, public space, mobility justice, community development, housing, and informality, and the contributors include researchers and practitioners from urban planning, sociology, anthropology, architecture, and landscape architecture.
 
Contributors: Rachel Berney, Rebecca Choi, Teddy Cruz, Diane E. Davis, Fonna Forman, Christopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Alison B. Hirsch, Jeffrey Hou, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Setha Low, Matthew Jordan Miller, Vinit Mukhija, Chelina Odbert, Francesca Piazzoni, and Michael Rios.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Lawrence J. Vale
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1 
Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija
I What is Urban Design for Justice? 
1 Just Urban Design Scholarship? Examining Urban Design Theories through a Justice Lens 21
Chritsopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Anastastia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija
2 The Search for Social Justice and Public Space Framework: The Case of Older Adults in New York City During COVID-19 47
Setha Low
3 Urban Design Praxis: A Responsibility for Justice 67
Michael Rios
II What is the Public City and Inclusive Urbanism? 
4 Rethinking Urban Politics through the Lens of Sovereignty: Material Assemblages for Inclusive Urbanism 87
Diane E. Davis
5 Opening up the Private City: Remaking Single-Family Zoning Neighborhoods 105
Vinit Mukhija
6 Reinstating Landscapes of Urban Resistance 125
Allison B. Hirsch
7 Air and Artifice: Bureaucrat Urban Designers in Harlem,1967 147
Rebecca Choi
III Participation and Organizing for Just Design
8 Building Community Capacity as Just Urban Design: Learning from Seattle's Chinatown International District 165
Jeffery Hou
9 Making "Public Space" Truly Public: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Truly Inclusive and Equitable Spaces 183
Chelina Odbert
10 Whose City? Innovations and Imaginaries and the Nehemiah Initiative's Example for Seattle 199
Rachel Berney
11 Designing Just Resilience? Innovation and Discontent in Post-Hurricane Sandy New York 217
Kian Goh
IV Deisgn for Difference
12 Urban Rights: Top Down/Bottom Up 239
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
13 Empowering Difference: Just Urban Design for the Immigrant Street Vendors of Rome 257
Francesca Piazzoni and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
14 Building a Black Public Realm and a Public Culture: Learning from Leimert Park Village 277
Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta
15 The Right to Walk in the Neighborhood: Designing Inclusive Sidewalks for Older Adults 295
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Conclusion: The Struggle for a Public City 315
Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija
Contributors 327
Index 331

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    The Struggle for a Public City
    9780262544276
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    The MIT Press
    Nov 22, 2022
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    The Struggle for a Public City
    9780262544276
    $40.00 US
    Paperback
    The MIT Press
    Nov 22, 2022

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