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