Resilience for all Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design /

In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism pr...

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Main Author: Wilson, Barbara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Social work.
Regional planning.
Urban planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban ecology (Biology).
Community ecology, Biotic.
ISBN:9781610918930
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: On #Charlottesville
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Resilience or Resistance?
  • Chapter 2: A Short History of Community-Driven Design
  • Chapter 3: East Biloxi: Bayou Restoration as Environmental Justice
  • Vignette #1: Fargo: Playing in the Sandbox in The Fargo Project
  • Chapter 4: Lower East Side, Manhattan: Tactical Urbanism Holding Space for the People's Waterfront
  • Vignette #2: San Francisco: Reconsidering Parklets in Ciencia Pública: Agua
  • Chapter 5: Denby, Detroit: Schools, and Their Students, as Anchors
  • Vignette #3: The Cochella Valley: Reimagining the Banks of the Salton Sea in the North Shore Productive Public Space Project
  • Chapter 6: Cully, Portland: Green Infrastructure as an Antipoverty Strategy
  • Vignette #4: Philadelphia: The "Makerspace" Revisited in The Tiny WPA
  • Chapter 7: Conclusion: Toward Design Justice
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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