Justice and the American Metropolis

<div> <div> <p>Today's American cities and suburbs are the sites of thick injustice-unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opaque and seemingly intractable. Thick injustice is hard to see to assign responsibility for and to change.</p> <p>Identifying these often invisible and intransigent problems this volume addresses foundational questions about what justice requires in the contemporary metropolis. Essays focus on inequality within and among cities and suburbs; articulate principles for planning redevelopment and urban political leadership; and analyze the connection between metropolitan justice and institutional design. In a world that is progressively more urbanized and yet no clearer on issues of fairness and equality this book points the way to a metropolis in which social justice figures prominently in any definition of success.</p> <p>Contributors: Susan S. Fainstein Harvard U; Richard Thompson Ford Stanford U; Gerald Frug Harvard U; Loren King Wilfrid Laurier U; Margaret Kohn U of Toronto; Stephen Macedo Princeton U; Douglas W. Rae Yale U; Clarence N. Stone George Washington U; Margaret Weir U of California Berkeley; Thad Williamson U of Richmond.<br></p> </div> </div>