Equity in the Urban Built Environment -

Equity in the Urban Built Environment

Bradley Bereitschaft (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-63106-6 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities.

Achieving more equitable and prosperous urban places requires a critical examination of the design and layout of our cities. The 16 chapters of this book illuminate the ways in which the built environment, including buildings, roads, public spaces, and other infrastructure, shapes our health and prosperity through a complex set of physical and social interactions. It brings together experts from a variety of fields to identify, and suggest workable solutions for, inequities in the spatial distribution of amenities and disamenities and the processes and policies that give rise to these unjust patterns. Blending scholarly knowledge and practical experience, many of these strategies and solutions are presented through the lens of real-world case studies. One key take-away is that the planning of our cities should be a communal effort that properly reflects the needs of all residents. Equity in the built environment can only be realized when people of diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, and abilities feel welcome to both shape and enjoy the shared public realm.

This book is intended for a wide audience that primarily includes scholars, students, graduate, upper level graduates and professionals in the fields of urban geography, urban planning, landscape architecture, and urban studies. Professionals in urban planning and policy with a desire to advance equity goals will likely appreciate the strategies, recommendations, and best practices discussed within.

Bradley Bereitschaft is Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His research focuses on the role of urban design and transportation in achieving equitable, healthy, and productive urban places.

Equity in the urban built environment: An introduction and overview

Bradley Bereitschaft

1. Affordable housing, equity, and zoning

Megan E. Hatch, Dustin C. Major, and Jack Yochum

2. The Motor City's evolution: How the automotive industry fueled Detroit's transport

inequities

Timothy F. Welch

3. Equity in neighborhood walkability: Challenges and opportunities

Bradley Bereitschaft

4. Near-roadway pollution in South Central Fresno, California: Can state-led, place-based

community engagement advance environmental justice?

Douglas Houston, Gregg Macey, Jeannine M. Pearce, and Catherine Garoupa

5. Understanding environmental and food (in)justice through community-based research:

Stories from Sacramento community coalitions

Leah Joyner, Gabrielle Gonzales, Si Gao, and Adrienne Cachelin

6. Green space provision and equity in the city

Magdalena Biernacka

7. Public space and environmental justice in high-density cities

Bo-sin Tang and Anvar Muhamedjanov

8. Addressing environmental quality inequities: The role of information and collective action

Sandra Aguilar-Gomez

9. Locating representational equity: Intersections between child-friendly cities and

children’s roles in realizing environmental justice

Victoria Derr

10. Disparities in the obesogenic built environment for children: A pilot study in East Baton

Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Yutian Zeng, Senlin Chen, Amanda E. Staiano, and Fahui Wang

11. Health and equity in age-friendly cities and communities: A global geographic

perspective

Sarah Nelson

12. On equity and designing space for the range of human ability

Ann Heylighen and Elizabeth Guffey

13. Auditory ableism: Exploring auraldiversity, equity and belonging in the built environment

William Renel

14. Digital equity in the United States: Disparities and socioeconomic influences on internet

access and use

Avijit Sarkar and James B. Pick

15. Impact of the urban built environment on public health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Amit Patel

16. Regenerative futures: Urban equity and climate vulnerability

Wendy Steele

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Zusatzinfo 3 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Bauwesen
ISBN-10 1-032-63106-6 / 1032631066
ISBN-13 978-1-032-63106-6 / 9781032631066
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