SEEKING SPATIAL JUSTICE

Imagen de cubierta: SEEKING SPATIAL JUSTICE
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Inglés
Número de páginas: 
256
Dimensiones: 210 cm × 145 cm × 0 cm
Fecha de publicación: 
2010
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978-0-8166-6668-3

In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city's Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city's poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this decision is also, for renowned urban theorist Edward W. Soja, a concrete example of spatial justice in action. In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live. After tracing the evolution of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others, he demonstrates how these ideas are now being applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city at the forefront of this movement. Soja focuses on such innovative labor-community coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Right to the City Alliance; on struggles for rent control and environmental justice; and on the role that faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning have played in both developing the theory of spatial justice and putting it into practice. Effectively locating spatial justice as a theoretical concept, a mode of empirical analysis, and a strategy for social and political action, this book makes a significant contribution to the contemporary debates about justice, space, and the city.

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SOJA, EDWARD W.

Edward W. Soja es profesor de la Universidad de California y de la London School of Economics. Su trabajo se ha dirigido principalmente a reconocer la radical novedad de las formas de habitar y experimentar el espacio en las grandes urbes contemporáneas. Estos cambios exigen, a su entender, una revisión igualmente radical de las herramientas y los conceptos geográficos que acabe por otorgar una nueva centralidad a la «dimensión espacial» en el framework de los estudios sociales. E. Soja es además la figura más relevante de lo que se ha dado en llamar la escuela de estudios urbanos críticos de Los Ángeles. Sus principales obras son Postmodern Geographies (1989) y Thirdspace (1996), trilogía completada con el presente volumen.

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