Just City

Name: Just City
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ISBN: 9780801476907

ISBN-10: 0801476909

ISBN-13: 9780801476907

Edition: 2011

Authors: Susan S. Fainstein

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For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is the author of The City Builders and coauthor of Restructuring the City and Urban Political Movements .