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

Mon Aug 3 15:54:53 BST 2009

Mark, thanks for your reference to the book about justice and the city, as also for Anthony Jays' about natural groupings, each of which reflect much of what I believe my 'House' evidence deals with, notably in the promise and the scope for an internal urban reconfiguration. Hope we can meet/discuss in the autumn perhaps.
Regards,
Barry Fineberg.
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  From: Mark Barrett 
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  Subject: [Campaignforrealdemocracy] Right to the City Fwd:[reclaiming-spaces] Searching for the Just City


  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/
  >
  > --------------------------------
  >
  > 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
  >
  >
  > -----------
  >
  > Peter Marcuse
  > Professor of Urban Planning Emeritus
  > School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation          Columbia
  > University
  > New York, N>Y. 10027
  > 212 – 854 3322
  > Home: 140 Greenwood Avenue Waterbury, CT 06704
  > 203 753 1140
  >
  >
  >
  > 


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