Injustice in Urban Sustainability Ten Core Drivers

• Main Authors: Kotsila, Panagiota, Anguelovski, Isabelle, García-Lamarca, Melissa, Sekulova, Filka
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Taylor & Francis 2023; Routledge; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
• Subjects: Annan samhällsvetenskap; Applied ecology; Architecture; Area planning (Civic art); City and town planning: architectural aspects; City Planning & Urban Development; Community development, Urban; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ecology; Equality; Landscape architecture and design; Nature; Nonfiction; Other Social Sciences; Political Science; Politics; Public Policy; Regional and area planning; Samhällsvetenskap; Social and Economic Geography; Social groups, communities and identities; Social justice; Social och ekonomisk geografi; Social Sciences; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sustainable urban development; The Arts; The environment; Urban & Land Use Planning; Urban and municipal planning; Urban and municipal planning and policy; Urban communities; Urban policy; Critical geography; Liveable cities; Urban Environmental Justice; Condo; Green Gentrification; Environment and sustainability; Civil Society; Urban Sustainability Initiatives; West Dallas; Epistemic Injustice; Atlanta BeltLine; SDG; Critical environmental justice studies; Urban Injustice; UN; Social justice; Public Administration; Environmental justice; Community planning; Urban sustainability; Densest; Green Infrastructure; Long Term Residents; Knowledge Brokerage; Livelihood Inequalities; NGO Law; Neoliberal Urbanism; Urban studies; Greenways; Neighbourhood planning; Barry Farm; TESS; Planetary Urbanization; Planning; Lachine Canal
• ISBN: 9781000790405; 1000790401; 9781032117621; 9781032117638; 103211763X; 1032117621; 9781000790481; 1000790487; 9781003221425; 1003221424
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003221425

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.