Equity in the Urban Built Environment (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)

This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities. Achieving more equitable and prosperous urban places requires a critical examination of the design and layout of our cities.The 16 chapters of this book illuminate the ways in which the built environment, including buildings, roads, public spaces, and other infrastructure, shapes our health and prosperity through a complex set of physical and social interactions.It brings together experts from a variety of fields to identify, and suggest workable solutions for, inequities in the spatial distribution of amenities and disamenities and the processes and policies that give rise to these unjust patterns.Blending scholarly knowledge and practical experience, many of these strategies and solutions are presented through the lens of real-world case studies.One key takeaway is that the planni