Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the just city. In this book, susan fainstein draws together her conceptual work over the past twenty years on the just city and her empirical work on urban development projects in major western cities. Fainstein is a lecturer and senior research fellow in the harvard graduate school of design. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Her research and writing has focused on the distributive effects of urban development strategies and megaprojects, the role of democracy and community control in local public institutions, and establishing a moral theory of the just city. Harvard professor susan fainstein speaks about her new book, the just city, bridging progressive ideas of justice with the practical work of planners and urban policymakers. For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of dis.
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Harvard university graduate school of design, 41 quarry dock road, branford, ct 06405, usa received 23 april 20. Fainstein is a senior research fellow in the harvard graduate school of design. Susan fainstein with sai balakrishnan and cuz potter youtube. It takes a comprehensive, balanced approach to the question. Her book the just city was published in 2010 by cornell university press. For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Since 1999 fainstein has worked to theorize the just city, a concept for which her 2010 book is named. A member of the urban planning faculties of columbia university and. Employing susan fainsteins just city framework, this article analyzes cases in which policy actors sought constraints on private dollars in an attempt to institutionalize equity into public. Fainstein has 15 books on goodreads with 1019 ratings.