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Title The paradox of urban space : inequality and transformation in marginalized communities / edited by Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp
Edition 1st ed
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction : Place as marginality and possibility / Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp -- Place : a site of social and environmental inequity / Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp -- Struggling for the right to housing : a critical analysis of the evolution of West Seattle's High Point / Sharon E. Sutton -- The ultimate team sport? Urban waterways and youth rowing in Seattle / Anne Taufen Wessells -- Recognizing the lived experience of place : challenges to genuine participation in redeveloping public housing communities / Lynne C. Manzo -- Beyond insiders and outsiders : conceptualizing multiple dimensions of community development stakeholders / Linda Hurley Ishem -- Place : a site of individual and collective transformation / Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp -- "Leaders of today, builders of tomorrow" : transforming youth and communities in urban youth programs / Susan P. Kemp -- Supporting grassroots resistance : sustained community-university partnerships to contest Chicago's HOPE VI program / Roberta M. Feldman -- Mutual learning in a community-university partnership : what design-build projects contribute to placemaking and placemakers / Steve Badanes -- Transforming communities through mapping : harnessing the potential of new technologies / Amy Hillier -- On the social construction of place : using participatory methods and digital tools to reconceive distressed urban neighborhoods / Matthew Kelley -- Documenting (in)justice : community-based participatory research and video / Caitlin Cahill and Matt Bradley -- Socially conscious design in the information age : the practice of an architecture for humanity / David S. Smolker and Caroline Lanza -- Conclusion : Standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a place-conscious society / Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp
Summary As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening differences between wealth and poverty, and the economic crisis, this book issues a timely call for just, sustainable development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Marginality, Social.
Poor youth.
Space in economics.
Equality.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Equality
Marginality, Social
Poor youth
Space in economics
Marginaliteit.
Sociaal isolement.
Ongelijkheid.
Stedelijke omgeving.
Form Electronic book
Author Sutton, Sharon E., 1941-
Kemp, Susan P., 1953-
ISBN 9780230117204
0230117201
9781349288373
1349288373