Assigned Readings

Green & Haines, Ch. 7, pp. 143-158 (Social Capital); Ch. 11, pp. 239-254 (Political Capital); and Ch. 12, pp. 255-270 (Cultural Capital)
Wheeler & Beatley: Gehl (99-103) and Hayden, Bullard, Perlman & Sheehan (181-208)

Additional Resources

Agyeman, J. (2005). Alternatives for community and environment: Where justice and sustainability meet Environment 47(6), 10-23.

Alkon, A. (2008) Paradise or pavement: The social constructions of the environment in two urban farmers' markets and their implications for environmental justice and sustainability. Local Environment 13(3), 271-289.

Alkon, A.H. & McCullen, C.G. (2011) Whiteness and farmers markets: Performances, perpetuations ... contestations? Antipode 43(4), 937-959.

Andreou, C. (2010) A shallow route to environmentally friendly happiness: Why evidence that we are shallow materialists need not be bad news for the environment(alist). Ethics, Place & Environment, 13(1), 1-10.

Backstrand, K. (2004). Scientisation vs. civic expertise in environmental governance: Eco-feminist, eco-modern and post-modern responses. Environmental Politics 13(4), 695-714.

Baker, D. & Refsgaard, K. (2007). Institutional development and scale matching in disaster response management. Ecological Economics 63(2/3), 331-343.

Ballet, J., Sirven, N. & Requiers-Desjardins, M. (2007). Social capital and natural resource management: A critical perspective. Journal of Environmental Development 16(4), 355-374.

Bell, S., Chilvers, A. & Hillier, J. (2011) The socio-technology of engineeering sustainability. Engineering Sustainability 164(3), 177-184.

Buckingham, S. & Kulcur, R. (2009) Gendered geographies of environmental injustice. Antipode 41(4), 659-683.

Byrne, J., Wolch, J. & Zhang, J. (2009) Planning for environmental justice in an urban national park. Journal of Environmental Planning & Management 52(3), 365-392.

Cohen, D.A., Inagami, S. & Finch, B. (2008). The built environment and collective efficacy. Health & Place 14(2), 198-208.

Coussee, F., Roets, G. & deBie, M. (2009). Empowering the powerful: Challenging hidden processes of marginalization in youth work policy and practice in Belgium. Critical Social Policy 29 (3), 421-442.

Fleisher, M. (2009) Coping with macro-structural adversity: Chronic poverty, female youth gangs, and cultural resilience in a US African-American urban community. Journal of contingencies & Crisis Management 17(4), 274-284.

Foster, J. (2010) Landscape continuity: Ecology, power and social order in environmental planning Planning Theory & Practice 11(2), 167-186.

Glover, T.D., Stewart, W.P. & Gladdys, K. (2008). Social ethics of landscape change: Toward community-based land-use planning. Qualitative Inquiry 14(3), 384-401.

Grineski, S.E. & Hernandez, A.A. (2010) Landlors, fear, and children's respiratory health: An untold story of environmental injustice in the central city. Local Environment 15(3), 199-216.

Heinz, T.L. (2005) From civil rights to environmental rights: Constructions of race, community and identity in three African American newspapers' coverage of the environmental justice movement. Journal of Communication Inquity 29(1), 47-65.

Huge, J. & Hens, L. (2007) Sustainability assessment of poverty reduction strategy papers. Impact Assessment & Project Appraisal 25(4), 247-258.

Kidder, J.L. (2009). Appropriating the city: space, theory, and bike messengers. Theory & Society 38(3), 307-328.

Kurtz, H.E. (2009) Acknowledging the racial state: an agenda for environmental justice research. Antipode 41(4), 684-704.

Kusenbach, M. (2008). A hierarchy of urban communities: Observations on the nested character of place. City & Community 7(3), 225-249.

Kwate, N.O.A. (2007) Fried chicken and fresh apples: Racial segregation as a fundamental cause of fast food density in black neighborhoods. Health & Place 14(1), 32-44.

Landrigan, P., Rauh, V.A. & Galvez, M.P. (2010) Environmental justice and the health of children. Sinai Journal of Medicine 77(2), 178-187.

Landorf, C. (2011) Evaluating social sustainability in historic urban environments. International Journal of Heritage Studies 17(5), 463-477.

Lauster, N.T. (2010) Housing and the proper performance of American motherhood, 1940-2005. Housing Studies 25(4), 543-557.

Maloutas, T. & Malouta, M.P. (2004). The glass menagerie of urban governance and social cohesion: concepts and states/concepts as stakes. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research 28(2), 449-465.

Manzo, L.C. & Perkins, D.D. (2006). Finding common ground: The importance of place attachment to community participation and planning. Journal of Planning Literature 20(4), 335-350.

Martinelli, A. (2003). Markets, governments, communities and global governance. International Sociology 18(2), 291-323.

Meagher, S.M. (2010) Critical thinking about the right to the city. Mapping garbage routes. City, 14(4),

Meegan, R. & Mitchell, A. (2001.) 'It's not community round here, it's neighbourhood': Neighbourhood change and cohesion in urban regeneration policies. Urban Studies 38(12), 2167-2194.

Miller, C.M. & Blevins, A. (2005). Battlement Mesa: A case study of community evolution. The Social Science Journal 32, 1-12.

Mulia, N., Schmidt, L., Bond, J., Jacobs, L. & Korcha, R. (2008) Stress, social support and problem drinking among women in poverty. Addiction 103(8), 1283-1293.

Nelson, L. & Hiemstra, N. (2008). Latino immigrants and the renegotiation of place and belonging in small town America. Social & Cultural Geography 9(3), 319-342.

Putnam, R. (1995). Bowling alone: America's declining social capital. Journal of Democracy 6(1), 65-78.

Rees, W.E. (2008) Human nature, eco-footprints and environmental injustice. Local Environment 13(8), 685-701.

Rocha, R.R. & Hawes, D.P. (2009). Racial diversity, representative bureaucracy and equity in multiracial school districts. Social Science Quarterly, 90(2), 326-344.

Rydin, Y., Holman, N., Hands, V. & Sommer, F. (2003). Incorporating sustainable development concerns into an urban regeneration project: How politics can defeat procedures. 46(4), 545-561.

Sharp, J.S. (2001). Locating the community field: A study of interorganizational network structure and capacity for community action. Rural Sociology 66(3), 403-424.

Sperb, J. (2008) Islands of Detroit: Affect, nostalgia and whiteness. Culture, Theory & Critique 49(2), 183-201.

Stephens, S. (2007). Community as practice: Social representations of community and their implications for health promotion. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 17, 103-114.

Vargas-Sanchez, A., Plaza-Mejia, M. & Porras-Bueno, N. (2009). Understanding residents' attitudes toward the development of industrial tourism in a former mining community. Jurnal of Travel Research 47(3), 373-387.

Whitehead, M. (2009) The wood for the trees: Ordinary environmental injustice and the everyday right to urban nature. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research 33(3), 662-681.

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