Seeking spatial justice

Summary: In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this decision is also, for renowned urban theorist Edward W. Soja, a concrete example of spatial justice in action.

Record details

ISBN: 9780816666683 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0816666687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780816666676 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0816666679 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xviii, 256 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Why spatial? why justice? Why L.A.? Why now? -- On the production of unjust geographies -- Building a spatial theory of justice -- Seeking spatial justice in Los Angeles -- Translating theory into practice : urban planning at UCLA -- Seeking spatial justice after 9/11 : continuities and conclusions.