Breakthrough Communities
Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis August 2009
Edited by M. Paloma Pavel
Foreword by Carl Anthony
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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.
Contributors: Carl 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
Urban and Industrial Environments series
About the Editor
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 Random Kindness and Senseless
Acts of Beauty.
Endorsements
"As we re-imagine the future of our cities and of
the planet, Breakthrough Communities offers
proven strategies that demonstrate that every
voice matters. These are grounded visions of hope
and possibility, where social justice forges a
new road for economic and environmental
sustainability."
-Danny Glover
"Occasionally there are books that reframe the
way we think and act-and this is one of them. By
seeing through a regional lens, it reveals the
essential topography of our social structure and
the superstructure of our environmental impacts.
America's most vexing challenges and golden
opportunities lie in reshaping this topography
and rethinking its superstructure at a regional
scale. Writing here are the leaders of a movement
that will change how we address social issues and
transform public policy in a systemic way. Its
range and insight is breathtaking-essential
reading for all concerned with social justice and
environmental health."
-Peter Calthorpe, Principal, Calthorpe and
Associates, author of The Next American Metropolis
"For too long we have ignored the gap between
livable cities and sustainable land use. Through
stories and strategies this book weaves new
possibilities for envisioning and rebuilding our
urban landscape. This is a remarkable book -
indeed indispensable for charting our way
forward."
-Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, Forum on Religion and Ecology
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