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Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series


About the Series

This series positions equity and justice as central elements of the transition toward sustainable cities. The series introduces critical perspectives and new approaches to the practice and theory of urban planning and policy that ask how the world's cities can become ‘greener’ while becoming more fair, equitable and just.

Routledge Equity Justice and the Sustainable City series addresses sustainable city trends in the global North and South and investigates them for their potential to ensure a transition to urban sustainability that is equitable and just for all. These trends include municipal climate action plans; resource scarcity as tipping points into a vortex of urban dysfunction; inclusive urbanization; "complete streets" as a tool for realizing more "livable cities"; the use of information and analytics toward the creation of "smart cities".

The series welcomes submissions for high-level cutting edge research books that push thinking about sustainability, cities, justice and equity in new directions by challenging current conceptualizations and developing new ones. The series offers theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances that can be used by professionals and as supplementary reading in courses in urban geography, urban sociology, urban policy, environment and sustainability, development studies, planning, and a wide range of academic disciplines.

To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Grace Harrison ([email protected], Twitter: @graceharrison5), or the Series Editors, Julian Agyeman ([email protected], twitter: @julianagyeman) and Stephen Zavestoski ([email protected]).

Julian Agyeman, Tufts University Boston-Medford, USA

Stephen Zavestoski, University of San Francisco, USA

Editorial Advisory Board:

Dr Antwi Akom, Professor & Founding Director, Social Innovation and Urban Opportunity Lab, University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco State University, USA

Dr Jayne Engle, Director, Cities, McConnell Foundation, Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Canada

Dr Ayona Datta, King’s College London, UK.

Dr Jenia Mukherjee, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India 

Professor Cheryl Teelucksingh, Ryerson University, Canada

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Injustice in Urban Sustainability Ten Core Drivers

Injustice in Urban Sustainability: Ten Core Drivers

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, Melissa García-Lamarca, Filka Sekulova
May 27, 2024

This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims of sustainability. Aligned with critical...

Understanding Just Sustainabilities from Within A Case Study of a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen in Connecticut

Understanding Just Sustainabilities from Within: A Case Study of a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen in Connecticut

1st Edition

By Phoebe Godfrey
September 25, 2023

Written by the co-founder and former board president of a non-profit shared-use commercial kitchen, Understanding Just Sustainabilities from Within presents an intersectional analysis of CLiCK (Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen), in order to explore what just sustainabilities can look and ...

Urban Ecosystem Justice Strategies for Equitable Sustainability and Ecological Literacy in the City

Urban Ecosystem Justice: Strategies for Equitable Sustainability and Ecological Literacy in the City

1st Edition

By Scott Kellogg
May 31, 2023

Merging together the fields of urban ecology, environmental justice, and urban environmental education, Urban Ecosystem Justice promotes building fair, accessible, and mutually beneficial relationships between citizens and the soils, water, atmospheres, and biodiversity in their cities. This book ...

Mapping Possibility Finding Purpose and Hope in Community Planning

Mapping Possibility: Finding Purpose and Hope in Community Planning

1st Edition

By Leonie Sandercock
January 27, 2023

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator, researcher, artist, and practitioner, Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning, dedicating ...

Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice

Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice

1st Edition

By Jennifer Foster
December 30, 2022

This book offers original theoretical and empirical insight into the social, cultural and ecological politics of rapidly changing urban spaces such as old factories, rail yards, verges, dumps and quarries. These environments are often disregarded once their industrial functions wane, a trend that ...

Sacred Civics Building Seven Generation Cities

Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities

1st Edition

Edited By Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook
May 13, 2022

Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. ...

Understanding Urban Cycling Exploring the Relationship Between Mobility, Sustainability and Capital

Understanding Urban Cycling: Exploring the Relationship Between Mobility, Sustainability and Capital

1st Edition

By Justin Spinney
April 29, 2022

Academic interest in cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the necessity for cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling. Based upon primary research in a variety of contexts such as...

The Green City and Social Injustice 21 Tales from North America and Europe

The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Isabelle Anguelovski, James J. T. Connolly
November 30, 2021

The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period. It analyses the circumstances under which greening interventions can create a new set of inequalities for socially vulnerable residents while also ...

Living Detroit Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis

Living Detroit: Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis

1st Edition

By Brandon M. Ward
November 04, 2021

In Living Detroit, Brandon M. Ward argues that environmentalism in postwar Detroit responded to anxieties over the urban crisis, deindustrialization, and the fate of the city. Tying the diverse stories of environmental activism and politics together is the shared assumption environmental activism ...

Urban Gardening as Politics

Urban Gardening as Politics

1st Edition

Edited By Chiara Tornaghi, Chiara Certomà
March 31, 2021

While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and ...

Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities

Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities

1st Edition

By Susannah Bunce
May 07, 2019

Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities explores the growing convergences between urban sustainability policy, planning practices and gentrification in cities. Via a study of governmental policy and planning initiatives and informal, community-based forms of sustainability ...

Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City Acting in the common place

Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City: Acting in the common place

1st Edition

By Meg Holden
January 17, 2019

What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking, in today’s cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute sustainability in city building, from a pragmatic perspective? Today, we are faced with a mountain of reasons ...

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