Sprawl City: Race, Politics and Planning in Atlanta
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Publication Date: August 2000
Publisher: Island Press
Binding: Trade Paper
Topics: AFRICAN AMERICANS_SEGREGATION; GEORGIA_RACE RELATIONS; ATLANTA (GA.)_SOCIAL CONDITIONS; CITIES AND TOWNS_GROWTH; URBAN ECOLOGY
Description:
A serious but often overlooked impact of the random, unplanned growth commonly known as sprawl is its effect on economic and racial polarization. Sprawl-fueled growth pushes people further apart geographically, politically, economically, and socially. Atlanta, Georgia, one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, offers a striking example of sprawl-induced stratification.
Sprawl City uses a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze and critique the emerging crisis resulting from urban sprawl in the ten-county Atlanta metropolitan region. Local experts including sociologists, lawyers, urban planners, economists, educators, and health care professionals consider sprawl-related concerns as core environmental justice and civil rights issues.
Contributors focus on institutional constraints that are embedded in urban sprawl, considering how government housing, education, and transportation policies have aided and in some cases subsidized separate but unequal economic development and segregated neighborhoods. They offer analysis of the causes and consequences of urban sprawl, and outline policy recommendations and an action agenda for coping with sprawl-related problems, both in Atlanta and around the country.
Contributors are Natalie Brown, Robert D. Bullard, William W. Buzbee, James Chapman, Dennis Creech, Russell W. Irvine, Charles Jaret, Chad G. Johnson, Glenn S. Johnson, Kurt Phillips, Elizabeth P. Ruddiman, and Angel O. Torres.
The book illuminates the rising class and racial divisions underlying uneven growth and development, and provides a timely source of information for anyone concerned with those issues, including the growing environmental justice movement as well as planners, policy analysts, public officials, community leaders, and students of public policy, geography, or planning.
Synopsis:
Sprawl City uses a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze and critique the emerging crisis resulting from urban sprawl in the ten-county Atlanta metropolitan region. Local experts including sociologists, lawyers, urban planners, economists, educators, and health care professionals consider sprawl-related concerns as core environmental justice and civil rights issues.<P>Contributors focus on institutional constraints that are embedded in urban sprawl, considering how government housing, education, and transportation policies have aided and in some cases subsidized separate but unequal economic development and segregated neighborhoods. They offer analysis of the causes and consequences of urban sprawl, and outline policy recommendations and an action agenda for coping with sprawl-related problems.
About the Author
Robert D. Bullard is Ware Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. He is author of eight books including "Dumping in Dixie" (3e) (Westview, 2000) and "Just Transportation" (New Society, 1997).
Glenn S. Johnson is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, and research associate in the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.
Angel O. Torres is a GIS specialist with the Environmental Justice Resource Center.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Anatomy of Sprawl
Robert D. Bullard
Chapter 1. Environmental Costs and Consequences
of Sprawl
Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres
Chapter 2. Dismantling Transportation Apartheid:
The Quest for Equality
Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres
Chapter 3. Impact of Building Roads to
Everywhere
James Chapman
Chapter 4. Closed Doors: Persistent Barriers to
Fair Housing
Angel O. Torres, Robert D. Bullard, and Chad G. Johnson
Chapter 5. The Legacy of Residential Segregation
Charles Jaret, Elizabeth P. Ruddiman, and Kurt Phillips
Chapter 6. Widening Educational Gap
Russell W. Irvine
Chapter 7. Urbal Sprawl and Legal Reform
William W. Buzbee
Chapter 8. Energy Use and the Environment
Dennis Creech and Natalie Brown
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Facing the Challenges
Ahead
Robert D. Bullard
Acronyms
Contributors
Index
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