Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity

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Robert D. Bullard (Texas Southern University) Carl Anthony

Growing Smarter

Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity

Robert D. Bullard (Texas Southern University), Carl Anthony

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MIT Press
12 January 2007

The environment

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low- and moderate-income families in existing neighborhoods, or transportation policies that isolate low-income populations. Growing Smarter is one of the few books to view smart growth from an environmental justice perspective, examining the effect of the built environment on access to economic opportunity and quality of life in American cities and metropolitan regions.

The contributors to Growing Smarter-urban planners, sociologists, economists, educators, lawyers, health professionals, and environmentalists-all place equity at the center of their analyses of ""place, space, and race."" They consider such topics as the social and environmental effects of sprawl, the relationship between sprawl and concentrated poverty, and community-based regionalism that can link cities and suburbs. They examine specific cases that illustrate opportunities for integrating environmental justice concerns into smart growth efforts, including the dynamics of sprawl in a South Carolina county, the debate over the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and transportation-related pollution in Northern Manhattan. Growing Smarter illuminates the growing racial and class divisions in metropolitan areas today-and suggests workable strategies to address them.

Foreword by: Carl Anthony
Edited by: Robert D. Bullard (Texas Southern University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262524704
ISBN 10: 0262524708
Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 12 January 2007
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert D. Bullard is Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.

Reviews for Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity

An impressive group of authors have come together to link conversations, debates, theories, and political action around the movements for smart growth and environmental justice in particular, and around regional planning, economic justice, and sustainability in general. They are building on the work of a wide range of scholars, activists, policymakers, and political leaders, and they do an admirable job. David Naguib Pellow, University of California, San Diego, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago

Shortlisted for Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award 2008.
Winner of <PrizeName>Finalist, 2008 Book of the Year, Association for Humanist Sociology</PrizeName> 2008
Winner of Finalist, 2008 Book of the Year, Association for Humanist Sociology 2008
Winner of Finalist, 2008 Book of the Year, Association for Humanist Sociology</PrizeName> 2008