Soja, Edward W.
Seeking Spatial Justice
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816666683
- author:
- Soja, Edward W.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 21.3 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Genre:
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Edward W. Soja's Seeking Spatial Justice explores the concept of justice as it relates to geography and urban planning. A historic legal victory in Los Angeles, won by the Bus Riders Union in 1996, is cited as a key example of spatial justice in action.
The book argues that justice has a geographical dimension and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Soja examines the evolution of spatial justice and its connection to the concept of the right to the city, tracing it through the work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others.
Case studies from Los Angeles highlight innovative labor-community coalitions, struggles for rent control and environmental justice, and the role of faculty and students in developing and applying the theory of spatial justice. This book offers new ways of understanding and changing unjust geographies.
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