Justice and the American Metropolis
Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom
Abstract
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. Identifying these often invisible and intransigent problems, this volume addresses foundational questions about what justice requires in the contemporary metropolis. Chapters focus on inequality within and among cities and suburbs; articulate principles for planning, redevelopment, and urban political leadership; and analyze the connection b ... More
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. Identifying these often invisible and intransigent problems, this volume addresses foundational questions about what justice requires in the contemporary metropolis. Chapters 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.
Keywords:
American cities,
American suburbs,
thick injustice,
power relations,
fairness,
equality,
social justice
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816676125 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816676125.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Clarissa Rile Hayward, editor
Professor, Political Theory, University of Toronto
Todd Swanstrom, editor
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