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Informed by urban political economy and critical social analysis, this book provides a critical comparative analysis of macro- and micro-level spatial design processes in architecture and urban planning. It interrogates the extent to which past and existing approaches to design have catered to social justice issues. With a special focus on the Right to the City approach and recent efforts to democratize urban spaces in the post-COVID 19 pandemic era, the book draws on examples of spatial design from the USA, Northern European countries and elsewhere to shed light on the presence (or lack) of social justice concerns in liberal capitalist and social democratic societies. This book is an important academic addition and resource for undergraduate and graduate curricula in architecture and urban planning/design programs, as well as a complementary resource for practitioners and policy planners who engage in urban development and transformation.
List of contents
Part I. The City and Social Justice: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations.- Chapter 1 Addressing Social and Spatial Justice Issues in American Universities: A Review of Architecture and Urban Planning Curricula.- Chapter 2 Architecture, Urban Planning and Social Justice: The Role of Transformative Design in Achieving Spatial Justice.- PART II. Designing for Social Justice: Urban "Shelters".- Chapter 3 Social Justice and the Right to Housing as a Transformative Vision: American and Global Examples.- Chapter 4 Spatial Design and Management of Refugee Camps: Al Za'atri and Its Transformation from a Temporary Shelter to a Permanent "Slum".- Chapter 5 Punishment or Transformative Rehabilitation? Architectural Design and Management of Maximum-Security Prisons in the United States and Norway.- PART III. Designing City Spaces and Social Justice: Contested Urban Landscapes .- Chapter 6 Architecture of Racial Segregation and Landscapes of Collective Memory: Transformation of the South Carolina State House Grounds.- Chapter 7 Reclaiming and Transforming the Cities During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: American and Global Examples.- Epilogue.- Chapter 8 Architects, Planners, and Social Activists as Transformative "Spatial Agents": Prospects and Limitations.
