Injustice in Urban Sustainability - Ten Core Drivers

This book, aimed at students in urban studies, critical geography and planning, uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means and how it can be implemented.

List of contents

Driver 1: Material and Livelihood Inequalities Driver 2: Racialized or Ethnically Exclusionary Urbanization Driver 3: Uneven Urban and Intensification and Regeneration Driver 4: Uneven Environmental Health and Pollution Patterns Driver 5: Exclusive Access to the Benefits of Urban Sustainability Infrastructure Driver 6: Unfit Institutional Structures Driver 7: Weakened Civil Society Driver 8: Limited Citizen Participation Driver 9: Power-Knowledge Asymmetries Driver 10: The Growth Imperative and Neoliberal Urbanism

About the author

Panagiota Kotsila is a postdoctoral researcher based at Institute for Environmental Sciences and Technology-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ).
Isabelle Anguelovski is the director of BCNUEJ, an ICREA research professor, a senior researcher and principal investigator at ICTA-UAB.
Melissa García-Lamarca is a postdoctoral researcher based at ICTA-UAB and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ).
Filka Sekulova is a postdoctoral fellow at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and an associate researcher at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) and ICTA-UAB.

Summary

This book, aimed at students in urban studies, critical geography and planning, uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means and how it can be implemented.

Product details

• Authors: Isabelle Anguelovski, Anguelovski Isabelle, Melissa García-Lamarca, Panagiota Kotsila, Panagiota Anguelovski Kotsila, Kotsila Panagiota, Filka Sekulova
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032117638
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3211763-8
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Applied ecology, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects