[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Right to the City Fwd: [reclaiming-spaces] Searching for the Just City

[Mark Barrett]

Peter Marcuse wrote:
> (The usual apologies.)
>
> Folks,
>
> A new book, touching on some key and controversial issues in planning
> practice and planning theory, We think its a contribution to
> discussions of planning theory, utopias, ethics, day-to-day problems
> of justice, social movements, environmental justice, urban sociology,
> and the future of cities.
> _
> __Searching for the Just City__, Routledge, 2009. Table of Contents
> below. Edited by Peter Marcuse, James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid
> Olivo, Cuz Potter, Justin Steil
>
http://www.routledge.com/books/Searching-for-the-Just-City-isbn9780415776134
>
>
>
> Table of Contents
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Acknowledgments
> Preface
> by Peter Marcuse
> Introduction: Finding Justice in the City
> by James Connolly and Justin Steil
>
> SECTION 1: Why Justice? Theoretical Foundations of the Just City Debate
> Planning and the Just City
> by Susan S. Fainstein
> The Right to the Just City
> by David Harvey, edited by Cuz Potter
> Discursive Planning: Social Justice as Discourse
> by Frank Fischer
> Justice and the Spatial Imagination
> by Mustafa Dikeç
>
> SECTION 2: What are the Limits of the Just City? Expanding the Debate
>> From Justice Planning to Commons Planning
> by Peter Marcuse
> As Just as it Gets? The European City in the Just City Discourse
> by Johannes Novy and Margit Mayer
> Urban Justice and Recognition: Affirmation and Hostility in Beer Sheva
> by Oren Yiftachel, Ravit Goldhaber, and Roy Nuriel
> On Globalization, Competition and Economic Justice in Cities
> by James DeFilippis
>
> SECTION 3: How Do We Realize Just Cities? Moving from Debate to Action
> Keeping Counterpublics Alive in Planning
> by Laura Wolf-Powers
> Can The Just City Be Built From Below? Brownfields, Planning and Power
> in the South Bronx
> by Justin Steil and James Connolly
> Fighting for Just Cities in Capitalism's Periphery
> by Erminia Maricato, translation Bruno Graca Lobo and Karina Leitão
> Race in New Orleans Since Katrina
> by J. Phillip Thompson
>
> Conclusion
> by Cuz Potter and Johannes Novy
> Postscript: Beyond the Just City to the Right to the City
> by Peter Marcuse
>
> Comments (thus far!) have been very favorable:
>
> "Reading The Just City, one becomes aware that urban scholarship has
> been inexorably leading towards a book exactly like this one for a
> long time. These essays synthesize the debates that engaged us in our
> studies of the 20th-century city, and chart out the intellectual path
> we will be taking in the 21st."
>
> -- /Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago/
>
> "Here at last are essays for our times. With the collapse of the
> neo-liberal order, we must rethink how we can construct a new life in
> cities around the world, a life based on conceptions of social
> justice. The essays in this volume are not only state of the art, but
> are written with passion, providing examples to stir the embers of
> belief that we can build a better world."
>
> -- /John Friedmann, Prof. emeritus UCLA, Hon. Professor, University of
> British Columbia/
>
> "Cities were where the division of labour began. Then planned cities
> housed the ordered life of bourgeois commerce but excluded generations
> of women, poor people and migrants from the benefits of urban living.
> The idealised city was not the just city. Today, difference is
> recognised in urban discourses but a widening gap separates those who
> gain from a city’s opportunities and those who are disenfranchised on
> a global scale. Given an urgent need to understand how urban justice
> can be produced, this book is timely. It brings together some of the
> most accomplished commentators in the field. The writing is always
> incisive, ranging from philosophical discussion to examination of
> tensions in planning debates and case studies. The book offers a
> coherent approach without masking complexities, and should be required
> reading for anyone involved in urban studies, planning and governance."
>
> -- /Malcolm Miles, Professor of Cultural Theory, University of
> Plymouth, UK/
>
> "The editors have assembled a thought provoking collection of
> theoretical and empirical essays that offer a broad introduction to
> the Just City movement of planners and urbanists. Its editors and
> contributors take us through a comprehensive analysis of the
> relationships between justice and the lived urban environment."
>
> -- /Herbert J Gans, author, IMAGINING AMERICA IN 2033. Robert S Lynd
> Prof. Emeritus of Sociology, Columbia University/
>
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>
> If interested, ask your library to order (it's expensive; depending on
> orders, will be a paperback, which we're pushing for).
> Library recommendation forms and a promotional flyer can be downloaded
> here:
> http:/www.cuzproduces.com//downloads/justcity
>
> Offers of reviews (directly to publisher, preferably through journal)
> more than welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter
>
>
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> Peter Marcuse
> Professor of Urban Planning Emeritus
> School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation          Columbia
> University
> New York, N>Y. 10027
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