Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City

Abstract

"A critical examination of the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities"-- Just urban design scholarship? examining urban design theories through a justice lens / Chritsopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Anastastia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija -- The search for social justice and public space framework: the case of older adults in New York City during COVID-19 / Setha Low -- Urban design praxis: a responsibility for justice / Michael Rios -- Rethinking urban politics through the lens of sovereignty: material assemblages for inclusive urbanism / Diane E. Davis -- Opening up the private city: remaking single-family zoning neighborhoods / Vinit Mukhija -- Reinstating landscapes of urban resistance / Allison B. Hirsch -- Air and artifice: bureaucrat urban designers in Harlem, 1967 / Rebecca Choi -- Building community capacity as just urban design: learning from Seattle's Chinatown International District / Jeffery Hou -- Making "public space" truly public: identifying and overcoming barriers to truly inclusive and equitable spaces / Chelina Odbert -- Whose city? innovations and imaginaries and the Nehemiah Initiative's example for Seattle / Rachel Berney -- Designing just resilience? innovation and discontent in post-Hurricane Sandy New York / Kian Goh -- Urban rights: top down/bottom up / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman -- Empowering difference: just urban design for the immigrant street vendors of Rome / Francesca Piazzoni and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris -- Building a Black public realm and a public culture: learning from Leimert Park Village / Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta -- The right to walk in the neighborhood: designing inclusive sidewalks for older adults / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris -- Conclusion: The struggle for a public city / Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija.