Resilience for all : striving for equity through community-driven design

Resilience for all : striving for equity through community-driven design /

In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism pr...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Wilson, Barbara B. (Barbara Brown) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press, 2018
Subjects:
City planning > Citizen participation.
City planning > United States.
Land use > United States > Planning.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: On #Charlottesville
  • 1. Introduction: Resilience or resistance?
  • 2. A short history of community-driven design
  • 3. East Biloxi: bayou restoration as environmental justice
  • Vignette 1: Fargo: playing in the sandbox in the Fargo Project
  • 4. The Lower East Side, Manhattan: tactical urbanism holding space for the People's Waterfront
  • Vignette 2: San Francisco: reconsidering parklets in Ciencia Pública: Agua
  • 5. Denby, Detroit: schools and their students, as anchors
  • Vignette 3: The Coachella Valley: reimagining the banks of the Salton Sea in the North Shore Productive Public Space Project
  • 6. Cully, Portland: green infrastructure as an anttipoverty strategy
  • Vignette 4: Philadelphia: the "makerspace" revisited in the tiny WPA
  • 7. Conclusion: Towards design justice.

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