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Neighborhood as refuge : community reconstruction, place remaking, and environmental justice in the city / Isabelle Anguelovski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anguelovski, Isabelle, author.
- Series:
- Urban and industrial environments.
- Urban and Industrial Environments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development, Urban--Environmental aspects.
- Community development, Urban.
- Environmental justice.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : MIT Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to pollution, contimination, and toxic sites. In this book, Isabelle Anguelovski takes a broader view of environmental justice, examining wide-ranging comprehensive efforts at neighbourhood environmental revitalization that include parks, urban agriculture, fresh food markets, playgrounds, housing, and waste management.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Environmental Justice, Urban Development, and Place Identity; 3 Stories of Neighborhood Abandonment, Degradation, and Transformation; 4 Holistic Community Reconstruction and Tactical Choices; 5 Place Remaking through Environmental Recovery and Revitalization; 6 Advancing Broader Political Agendas: Spatial Justice, Land and Border Control, and Deepening Democracy; 7 Conclusion: Toward a New Framework for Place-Based Urban Environmental Justice and Community Health; Appendix A Semistructured Interviews: Barcelona
- Appendix B Semistructured Interviews: BostonAppendix C Semistructured Interviews: Havana; Appendix D Techniques for Data Analysis; Appendix E Constructing Grounded Theory; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-32219-6
- 0-262-32218-8
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