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Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care.
These are the core systems which make human life possible in the
21st century. Few of us are truly self-sufficient - we rely on the
systems built into our cities and towns of all shapes and sizes in
order to survive, let alone thrive. Despite how important these
systems are, and how much we rely on them, contemporary politics
and mainstream economics in most of the world largely ignore these
core systems. Politicians debate what they think will get them
elected; economists value what they think drives growth. This book
joins the growing chorus of activists, academics and innovators who
think that we should be focusing on what matters, on the parts of
our economy in which most of us work and upon which all of us
depend for survival. We help push this movement along by suggesting
a series of concrete steps we can take to build what we call the
"Spatial Contract". The spatial contract is a form of social
contract that pays attention to a simple fact: in order for humans
to be free, we rely on these basic systems that enable us to act.
At the heart of the spatial contract is an agreement to channel
that action into ensuring these systems are built, maintained and
available to all who need them, in big cities and small towns all
around the world. -- .
Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care.
These are the core systems which make human life possible in the
21st century. Few of us are truly self-sufficient - we rely on the
systems built into our cities and towns of all shapes and sizes in
order to survive, let alone thrive. Despite how important these
systems are, and how much we rely on them, contemporary politics
and mainstream economics in most of the world largely ignore these
core systems. Politicians debate what they think will get them
elected; economists value what they think drives growth. This book
joins the growing chorus of activists, academics and innovators who
think that we should be focusing on what matters, on the parts of
our economy in which most of us work and upon which all of us
depend for survival. We help push this movement along by suggesting
a series of concrete steps we can take to build what we call the
"Spatial Contract". The spatial contract is a form of social
contract that pays attention to a simple fact: in order for humans
to be free, we rely on these basic systems that enable us to act.
At the heart of the spatial contract is an agreement to channel
that action into ensuring these systems are built, maintained and
available to all who need them, in big cities and small towns all
around the world. This book is relevant to both United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 9, Affordable and clean energy
and Industry, innovation and infrastructureThis book is relevant to
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 9, Industry, innovation
and infrastructure -- .
How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically
progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest
epicenters of the foreclosure crisis? How could this region
continuously reproduce racial poverty and reinvent segregation in
old farm towns one hundred miles from the urban core? This is the
story of the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional
planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, and political fragmentation
between middle class white environmentalists and communities of
color. As Alex Schafran shows, the responsibility for this newly
segregated geography lies in institutions from across the region,
state, and political spectrum, even as the Bay Area has never
managed to build common purpose around the making and remaking of
its communities, cities, and towns. Schafran closes the book by
presenting paths toward a new politics of planning and development
that weave scattered fragments into a more equitable and functional
whole.
How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically
progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest
epicenters of the foreclosure crisis? How could this region
continuously reproduce racial poverty and reinvent segregation in
old farm towns one hundred miles from the urban core? This is the
story of the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional
planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, and political fragmentation
between middle class white environmentalists and communities of
color. As Alex Schafran shows, the responsibility for this newly
segregated geography lies in institutions from across the region,
state, and political spectrum, even as the Bay Area has never
managed to build common purpose around the making and remaking of
its communities, cities, and towns. Schafran closes the book by
presenting paths toward a new politics of planning and development
that weave scattered fragments into a more equitable and functional
whole.
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