GROWING SMARTER by Robert D. Bullard (Editor), Carl Anthony (Foreword) ( 9780262524704 )

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Title:

GROWING SMARTER
ACHIEVING LIVABLE COMMUNITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, AND REGIONAL EQUITY

By:

Robert D. Bullard (Editor), Carl Anthony (Foreword)

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£31.49
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ISBN 10:

0262524708

ISBN 13:

9780262524704

Publisher:

MIT PRESS LTD

Pub. date:

12 January, 2007

Series:

Urban and Industrial Environments

Pages:

408

Description:

Experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.

Synopsis:

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 Smarter is 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 cities and metropolitan regions.The contributors to Growing Smarter -- urban planners, sociologists, economists, educators, lawyers, health professionals, and environmentalists -- all place equity at the center of their analyses of "place, space, and race." They consider such topics as the social and environmental effects of sprawl, the relationship between sprawl and concentrated poverty, and community-based regionalism that can link cities and suburbs. They examine specific cases that illustrate opportunities for integrating environmental justice concerns into smart growth efforts, including the dynamics of sprawl in a South Carolina county, the debate over the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and transportation-related pollution in Northern Manhattan. Growing Smarter illuminates the growing racial and class divisions in metropolitan areas today -- and suggests workable strategies to address them.

Illustrations:

13 illus.

Publication:

Imprint:

MIT Press

Prizes:

Winner of Finalist, 2008 Book of the Year, Association for Humanist

Returns:

Non-returnable

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