Resilience for all Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design / by Barbara Wilson.

In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, Barbara (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Social work. Regional planning. Urban planning. Sociology, Urban. Urban ecology (Biology). Community ecology, Biotic. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.

Table of Contents:

Preface: On #Charlottesville
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Resilience or Resistance?
Chapter 2: A Short History of Community-Driven Design
Chapter 3: East Biloxi: Bayou Restoration as Environmental Justice
Vignette #1: Fargo: Playing in the Sandbox in The Fargo Project
Chapter 4: Lower East Side, Manhattan: Tactical Urbanism Holding Space for the People's Waterfront
Vignette #2: San Francisco: Reconsidering Parklets in Ciencia Pública: Agua
Chapter 5: Denby, Detroit: Schools, and Their Students, as Anchors
Vignette #3: The Cochella Valley: Reimagining the Banks of the Salton Sea in the North Shore Productive Public Space Project
Chapter 6: Cully, Portland: Green Infrastructure as an Antipoverty Strategy
Vignette #4: Philadelphia: The “Makerspace” Revisited in The Tiny WPA
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Toward Design Justice
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Resilience for all Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design / by Barbara Wilson.

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