Critical Planning, Volume 14: Spatial Justice

Volume 14 of Critical Planning, a journal published by UCLA urban planning doctoral and master’s students since 1993, presents a collection of scholarly work on the topic of spatial justice.

Participants in the Spatial Justice International Conference, March 12–14, 2008 at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, France have one of three options for pre-ordering copies of Volume 14 through our secure website at the reduced price of $10 USD per volume:

  1. Pre-order: pick up and pay at the conference. Please write “Paris conference” under special instructions and enter all information except a credit card number.

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For online orders, we accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. At the conference we will also accept cash 10 USD / 7 EUROS for pre-ordered volumes.

For questions, library subscriptions, or bulk orders email Ava Bromberg: avab@ucla.edu.

Articles in Volume 14

“Editorial Note: Why Spatial Justice?” (PDF)
Ava Bromberg, Gregory D. Morrow, Deirdre Pfeiffer

“What Makes Justice Spatial? What Makes Spaces Just? Three Interviews on the Concept of Spatial Justice ”
Nicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Kevin Hamilton, Sharon Irish, Sarah Kanouse

“Sculpting the Social Geography of Lower Manhattan: Artists and AIDS Activists in the 1980s and 1990s” (PDF)
Tamar Carroll

“Space vs. Race: A Historical Exploration of Spatial Injustice and Unequal Access to Water in Lagos, Nigeria”
Charisma Acey

“Building the Right to Return: Toward a Framework of Social and Spatial Justice in New Orleans”
Anna Livia Brand

“When Natural Disaster Collided with Unnatural Order: Gender and Spatial Injustice in Pos-Tsunami Aceh”
Dewi H. Susilastuti

“Listening, Collaboration, Solidarity” (PDF)
Scott Berzofsky, Christopher Gladora, David Sloan, and Nicholas Wisniewski

“The Baumwagen Culture”
Stefan Canham

“Spatial Justice for Ayn Hawd: Thoughts on an Alternative Master Plan for a Palestinian Village ”
Sabine Horlitz and Oliver Clemens

“Contested Space: The Struggle for the Little Village Lawndale High School ”
Joanie Friedman

“Resistance through Celebration: The Philadelphia Odunde Festival and The Role of Cultural Spatial Practices in Gentrification Conflicts”
Annis Whitlow

“Staging the Streets: Mutable Space in a Military State”
Elise Morrison

“Japanese-American Farmers and the Palos Verdes Peninsula: A Reflection on their Settlement and Forced Displacement”
Stanislav Parfenov

“Book Review: Removing Unfreedoms: Citizens as Agents of Change in Urban Development”
Ashok Das

“Book Review: Barrio Urbanism: Chicana/os, Planning, and American Cities”
Andrea Contreras