Sustainability and Social Justice: Urban Urgencies in Compact Neighborhood Planning
Abstract
Social justice and sustainability are two concepts that have evolved in the past two
decades to create challenging directions for the field of urban planning. While planners
describe sustainability as including environmental, economic and social concerns in
theory, numerous studies cite that social justice often gets undercut in practice
and that sustainability is implemented to address environmental concerns. This research
focuses on sustainability and social justice in order to understand how compact land
use planning can advance both.
The intent of this research is to explore the relationship between sustainability
and social justice and how to advance social justice through compact land use planning.
This thesis examines whether or not sustainability includes social justice and how
sustainability interacts with social justice in addition to identifying obstacles
to advancing social justice through compact land use planning. The recommendations
presented will contribute to efforts to identify opportunities that planners can use
to advance a sustainability strategy that is inclusive of social justice and complements
social justice goals.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/14273Citation
Rouse, Chandra (2017). Sustainability and Social Justice: Urban Urgencies in Compact Neighborhood Planning.
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