Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis
M. Paloma Pavel is Founder and President of Earth House Center in Oakland, California, which is dedicated to building multiracial leadership. She is a psychologist and international educator and the coauthor of
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs.
The emerging metropolitan regional-equity movement promotes innovative policies to ensure that all communities in a metropolitan region share resources and opportunities equally. Too often, low-income communities and communities of color bear a disproportionate burden of pollution and lack access to basic infrastructure and job opportunities. The metropolitan regional-equity movement—sometimes referred to as a new civil rights movement—works for solutions to these problems that take into account entire metropolitan regions: the inner-city core, the suburbs, and exurban areas. This book describes current efforts to create sustainable communities with attention to the “triple bottom line”—economy, environment, and equity—and argues that these three interests are mutually reinforcing.
After placing the movement in its historical, racial, and class context, Breakthrough Communities offers case studies in which activists' accounts alternate with policy analyses. These describe efforts in Detroit, New York City, San Francisco, Atlanta, Camden, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other metropolitan areas to address such problems as vacant property, brownfields, affordable housing, accessible transportation, community food security, and the aftermath of Katrina and September 11. The volume concludes by considering future directions for the movement, including global linkages devoted to such issues as climate change.
ContributorsCarl Anthony, Angela Glover Blackwell, Robert D. Bullard, Sheryll Cashin, Kizzy Charles-Guzmán, Don Chen, Celine d'Cruz, Amy B, Dean, Hattie Dorsey, Cynthia M. Duncan, Juliet Ellis, Danny Feingold, Deeohn Ferris, Kenneth Galdston, Greg Galluzzo, Howard Gillette Jr., David Goldberg, Robert Gottlieb, Bart Harvey, William A. Johnson Jr., Chris Jones, Van Jones, Anupama Joshi, Bruce Katz, Victoria Kovari, Mike Kruglik, Steve Lerner, Greg Leroy, Amy Liu, Stephen McCullough, Mary Nelson, Jeremy Nowak, Myron Orfield, Manuel Pastor, M. Paloma Pavel, john a. powell, Cheryl Rivera, Faith R. Rivers, Nicolas Ronderos, Rachel Rosner, David Rusk, Priscilla Salant, David Satterthwaite, Ellen Schneider, Peggy M. Shepard, L. Benjamin Starrett, Jennie Stephens, Elizabeth Tan, Petra Todorovich, Andrea Torrice, Mark Vallianatos, Robert Yaro
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Table of Contents
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Part I: Roots of the Regional Equity Movement and the Reinterpretation of Metropolitan Space
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Section 1: Moving Beyond Apartheid in the Next American Metropolis
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Section 2: Environment, Transportation, and Land Use in the Quest for Racial Justice
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Section 3: Geographic Context, Sustainability, and Regional Equity
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Part II: Breakthrough Communities: Stories and Strategies in the Quest for Regional Equity
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Section 1: Saying No to Forces Destroying the Community
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Section 2: Getting Grounded in Place, Time, and Community
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Section 3: Exploring New Horizons: Connecting Local Struggles to Global and Regional Stories
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22: Values, Vision, and Message: The Spirit of Metro Equity
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Section 4: Saying Yes: Framing Regional Collaborations to Win
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24: Poor City, Rich Region: Confronting Poverty in Camden (Camden, New Jersey)
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Part III: Regional Equity and the Future of Sustainable Metropolitan Communities
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Section 1: Building the Capacity of the Regional Equity Movement
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Section 2: Reaching Out to New Strategic Partners
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Section 3: Uncovering Global Linkages for Sustainable Metropolitan Communities
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Section 4: Beyond Segregation: Toward a Shared Vision of Our Regions
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Part IV: Resources
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