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Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and
increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower
income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These
suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to
address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates
barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural
networks, and plays a role in increasing social inequality. This
book investigates how housing and transport policy have played
their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact
race has upon those likely to be affected. Diane Jones Allen uses
research from New Orleans, Baltimore, and Chicago to explore the
forces at work in these situations, as well as proposing potential
solutions. Mapping, interviews, photographs, and narratives all
come together to highlight the inequities and challenges in Transit
Deserts, where a lack of access can make all journeys, such as to
jobs, stores, or relatives, much more difficult. Alternatives to
public transit abound, from traditional methods such as biking and
carpooling to more culturally specific tactics, and are examined
comprehensively. This is valuable reading for students and
researchers interested in transport planning, urban planning, city
infrastructure, and transport geography.
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and
increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower
income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These
suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to
address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates
barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural
networks, and plays a role in increasing social inequality. This
book investigates how housing and transport policy have played
their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact
race has upon those likely to be affected. Diane Jones Allen uses
research from New Orleans, Baltimore, and Chicago to explore the
forces at work in these situations, as well as proposing potential
solutions. Mapping, interviews, photographs, and narratives all
come together to highlight the inequities and challenges in Transit
Deserts, where a lack of access can make all journeys, such as to
jobs, stores, or relatives, much more difficult. Alternatives to
public transit abound, from traditional methods such as biking and
carpooling to more culturally specific tactics, and are examined
comprehensively. This is valuable reading for students and
researchers interested in transport planning, urban planning, city
infrastructure, and transport geography.
How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the
community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term
stewardship? By bringing community members to the table, we open up
the possibility of exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming
places powerfully. Collaboration like this is hands-on democracy in
action. It's up close. It's personal. For decades, participatory
design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote
cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same
techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These
approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for
addressing current and future design challenges. Design as
Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity is written to
reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques,
and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six
leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory
design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, Design
as Democracy shows how to design with communities in empowering and
effective ways. The flow of the book's nine chapters reflects the
general progression of community design process, while also
encouraging readers to search for ways that best serve their
distinct needs and the culture and geography of diverse places.
Each chapter presents a series of techniques around a theme, from
approaching the initial stages of a project, to getting to know a
community, to provoking political change through strategic
thinking. Readers may approach the book as they would a cookbook,
with recipes open to improvisation, adaptation, and being created
anew. Design as Democracy offers fresh insights for creating
meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for
transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.
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