Growing Smarter Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity

Name: Growing Smarter Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity
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ISBN: 9780262524704

ISBN-10: 0262524708

ISBN-13: 9780262524704

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert D. Bullard, Carl Anthony, Don Chen, Daniel J. Hutch

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The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low- and moderate-income families in existing neighborhoods, or transportation policies that isolate low-income populations. Growing Smarteris one of the few books to view smart growth from an environmental justice perspective, examining the effect of the built environment on access to economic opportunity and quality of life in American…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Robert D. Bullard is Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Race, Smart Growth, and Regional Equity



Smart Growth Meets Environmental Justice




Race, Poverty, and Urban Sprawl


Access to Opportunities through Regional Strategies




?Quien es Mas Urbanista? Latinos and Smart Growth




Sprawl and Civil Rights: A Mayor's Reflections




Land Use and the Built Environment



Nashville: An Experiment in Metropolitan Governance




Smart Growth and the Legacy of Segregation in Richland County, South Carolina




Food Justice and Health in Communities of Color




Washed Away by Hurricane Katrina


Rebuilding a "New" New Orleans




Transportation Equity



Confronting Transportation Sprawl in Metro Atlanta




Environmental Justice and Transportation Equity


A Review of MPOs




Beyond Dirty Diesels


Clean and Just Transportation in Northern Manhattan




Linking Transportation Equity and Environmental Justice with Smart Growth




Growing Smarter for Livable Communities



Building Regional Coalitions between Cities and Suburbs




Smart Growth Tools for Revitalizing Environmentally Challenged Urban Communities



Afterword: Growing Smarter and Fairer



Contributors


Index