Just Cities

The Struggle for Urban Racial and Climate Justice

Julian Agyeman author Joan Fitzgerald author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Publishing:21st Jan '27

£88.00

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While urban planners are increasingly embracing equity goals, the profession has historically helped create the unjust landscapes it is now seeks to address. In Just Cities, Joan Fitzgerald and Julian Agyeman reveal how today's urban climate problems^—^flooding, heat, and pollution^—^are rooted in decades of planning and policy decisions that concentrated environmental harms in Black and low-income neighborhoods, creating unequal risk to the impacts of climate change. This dual legacy^—^aspiring to justice while institutionalizing inequity^—^shapes both the possibilities and the limits of current climate planning. Most analyses of climate equity and justice focus narrowly on the goals and implementation of climate action plans. Just Cities instead examines the deeper structural relationship between urban planning, racial injustice, and climate change, arguing that they are inseparable. As movements for racial and environmental justice converge, the book reveals how cities and grass roots advocates can work together to undo past harm and build fairer, more resilient, and sustainable communities.

“I remember my shock at learning that the urban neighborhoods red-lined almost a century ago are now several degrees hotter than the places white people lived; as the authors of this fine book make clear, we shouldn't be shocked by such revelations, because tThere's a long and enduring history of planning to promote injustice. If we're to turn that around, we better start by learning this story in all its bitter detail.” Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
Greenovation creates a framework for integrating the goals of climate mitigation and reparative justice. It offers a theoretical and historical understanding of the relationship between these climate mitigation and reparative justice,aims as well a pragmatic approach to achieving them. It should be required reading.” Susan S. Fainstein, Author, The Just City
Finally a book that offers a bold vision of reparative planning for an era of climate crisis and deep racial and social inequality, that confronts the legacies of redlining, exclusionary zoning, and environmental harm through transformative action in housing, transportation, energy, or land use. Grounded in real political struggles in US cities, Joan Fitzgerald and Julian Agyeman acknowledge the hard path local governments and grassroots movements must take to build more just and democratic environmental futures, becoming powerful counterweights to a hostile federal administration." Isabelle Michele Sophie Anguelovski, coauthor of Injustice in Urban Sustainability
Just Cities arrives at exactly the right moment. Fitzgerald and Agyeman have produced an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners, and advocates alike, one that refuses to treat climate planning and racial justice as parallel tracks. For anyone working to build more equitable and resilient cities, this is essential reading." Sheila R. Foster, coauthor of Co-Cities
Just Cities names urban planning as a root cause of the climate crisis and offers reparative planning as the way through . . . not token equity language, but a genuine shift in approach.” Deneine Christa Powell, Urban Sustainability Directors Network

ISBN: 9780197698723

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274 pages