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Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and principles of justice are rarely the explicit basis for the resolution of disputes. If today’s cities are full of injustices and unrealized promises, how would a Just City function? Is a Just City merely a utopia, or does it have practical relevance? This book engages with the growing debate around these questions.

The notion of the Just City emerges from philosophical discussions about what justice is combined with the intellectual history of utopias and ideal cities. The contributors to this volume, including Susan Fainstein, David Harvey and Margit Mayer articulate a conception of the Just City and then examine it from differing angles, ranging from Marxist thought to communicative theory. The arguments both develop the concept of a Just City and question it, as well as suggesting alternatives for future expansion. Explorations of the concept in practice include case studies primarily from U.S. cities, but also from Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.

The authors find that a forthright call for justice in all aspects of city life, putting the question of what a Just City should be on the agenda of urban reform, can be a practical approach to solving questions of urban policy. This synthesis is provocative in a globalised world and the contributing authors bridge the gap between theoretical conceptualizations of urban justice and the reality of planning and building cities. The notion of the Just City is an empowering framework for contemporary urban actors to improve the quality of urban life and Searching for the Just City is a seminal read for practitioners, professionals, students, researchers and anyone interested in what urban futures should aim to achieve.

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"Reading The Just City, one becomes aware that urban scholarship has been inexorably leading towards a book exactly like this one for a long time. These essays synthesize the debates that engaged us in our studies of the 20th-century city, and chart out the intellectual path we will be taking in the 21st."

-- Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Here at last are essays for our times. With the collapse of the neo-liberal order, we must rethink how we can construct a new life in cities around the world, a life based on conceptions of social justice. The essays in this volume are not only state of the art, but are written with passion, providing examples to stir the embers of belief that we can build a better world."

-- John Friedmann, Prof. emeritus UCLA, Hon. Professor, University of British Columbia

 "Cities were where the division of labour began. Then planned cities housed the ordered life of bourgeois commerce but excluded generations of women, poor people and migrants from the benefits of urban living. The idealised city was not the just city. Today, difference is recognised in urban discourses but a widening gap separates those who gain from a city’s opportunities and those who are disenfranchised on a global scale. Given an urgent need to understand how urban justice can be produced, this book is timely. It brings together some of the most accomplished commentators in the field. The writing is always incisive, ranging from philosophical discussion to examination of tensions in planning debates and case studies. The book offers a coherent approach without masking complexities, and should be required reading for anyone involved in urban studies, planning and governance."

 -- Malcolm Miles, Professor of Cultural Theory, University of Plymouth, UK

"The editors have assembled a thought provoking collection of theoretical and empirical essays that offer a broad introduction to the Just City movement of planners and urbanists. Its editors and contributors take us through a comprehensive analysis of the relationships between justice and the lived urban environment."

-- Herbert J Gans, author, IMAGINING AMERICA IN 2033. Robert S Lynd Prof. Emeritus of Sociology, Columbia University

"I found the book a fascinating read"

―J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., Department of Economics, James Madison University

"Notwithstanding the slant of the book toward East Coast secular progressives, this is a provocative collection of articles that readers will find richly rewarding. In the shadow of corporate capitalism and the preoccupation with economic efficiency, in recent decades planners have been almost embarrassed to speak the language of justice. If this book helps to release full-throated calls for urban justice, it will have fulfilled an important function."

-- Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri-St Louis

"Social justice is back on the urban studies agenda. The authors of essays collected in Justice and the American Metropolis and Searching for the Just City join the chorus of voices arguing that urban policy has focused, for too long, on economic development at the expense of equity."

-- Mark D. Bjelland, Journal of Regional Science

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Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of inequalities, great wealth and abject poverty, powerful leaders and often subservient populations. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and the resolution of disputes is not often predicated on principles of justice. If today's cities are full of injustices, what would a Just City look like? Is a Just City merely a utopia, or has it practical relevance? Is it the best formulation of the most desirable goal for urban development? This book engages the growing debate around these questions. The notion of the Just City emerges from the intellectual history of the ideal city and philosophical discussions about what justice is.The contributors to this volume including: David Harvey, Robert Beauregard, Dolores Hayden, Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein define the concept of the Just City and then examine it from many angles, supporting and developing the concept or questioning it and suggesting alternatives. Explorations of the use of the concept in practice include case studies primarily from U.S. cities, but also with illuminating looks at cities in Germany and Israel.

The authors find common ground in the conviction that much more far-reaching changes are required in the development of our cities than many professionals, and particularly planners, contemplate.They find that a forthright call for justice in all aspects of city life, putting the question of what a Just or a Good or an Ideal City should be on the day-to-day agenda of urban reform, can be a practical approach to solving concrete questions of urban policy, from what to do with a wholesale food market in the Bronx to avoiding gentrification around mega-projects. The contributing authors thus bridge the gap between theoretical conceptualizations of urban justice and the reality of planning and building cities. The notion of the 'Just City' is an empowering framework for contemporary urban actors to improve the quality of urban life.

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