Equity and Planning For Local Services

Lucy, William H.

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“…Yet, the theoretical perspectives on social justice, on which advocacy planning was based, have seldom translated into practical methods and techniques applicable in the field (Davidoff and Boyd 1983;Hoch 1993;Baum 1997;Sanchez 2001), and subsequent ''equity planning'' (Metzger 1996) has been criticized for failing to provide specific tools for planners to assess and address social disparities (Sanchez 2001). Indeed, the published literature on the practical application of equity planning remains relatively sparse, with a few important exceptions (e.g., work by Krumholz and Forester 1990;Clavel 1994;Burby and Strong 1997;Lucy 1981Lucy , 1994Sanchez 1998;Talen 1998Talen , 2000Talen and Anselin 1998;Maantay 2002;Agyeman 2005;Day 2006). As a result, while planners can ideally play a key role in promoting environmental justice and equity in the distribution of public goods, the dearth of systematic methodologies with practical applicability has meant that planners have difficulty addressing environmental justice problems on the ground (Washington and Strong 1997).…”

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Got green? addressing environmental justice in park provision

2009

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We present a pragmatic approach to assist planners in addressing racial inequities in park access. Utilizing the Los Angeles metropolitan region as an example, we used Thiessen polygons to delineate a service area for each park, and described potential park congestion or 'pressure' in each park service area. Results show that Latinos, AfricanAmericans, and low-income groups in general were likely to live close to parks with higher potential park congestion. On the other hand, predominantly White, high-income areas were typically located close to parks with lower potential park congestion levels. The park service area analysis presented here facilitates the identification of areas with greater park need and provides a pragmatic way to redress existing disparities in park access. Built into a set of webbased decision support tools, the approach fosters greater community participation and empowers local stakeholders in the process of park provision.

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Got green? addressing environmental justice in park provision

2009

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“…Furthermore, the focus on person accessibility still leaves unaddressed the question how person accessibility should be measured. As illustrated by a number of authors, the type of accessibility measure has significant ramifications for the representation of differences in person accessibility (e.g., Kwan 1998;Neutens et al 2010a) and, hence, for preferred policy responses (e.g., Lucy 1981). This important issue requires a separate discussion that will be left to another occasion; for a first exploration rooted in the social justice literature, see Martens and Golub (in press).…”

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Justice in transport as justice in accessibility: applying Walzer’s ‘Spheres of Justice’ to the transport sector

2012

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This paper seeks to provide a theoretical basis for a distributive approach to transport. Using the theory developed by Michael Walzer in his 'Spheres of Justice ' (1983), I argue that the transport good, defined as accessibility, should be distributed in a so-called separate sphere, i.e. independent from the way in which other key goods, like money or power, are allocated. I subsequently explore what kind of justice principle could guide the distribution of the transport good, once a separate sphere would be established. This preliminary exploration results in the elimination of a number of widely supported distributive principles, and in the tentative identification of a criterion matching the particularities of the transport good. The explorations in the paper are not intended as final answers, but rather seek to open the debate about the need for an explicit distributive transport policy and the distributive principle that should guide such a policy.

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“…Post 1970s, western countries put into effect a new public management reform policy emphasizing economics and the efficiency of supply (Wang, 2007). Five sub-concepts put forward by Lucy (1981) and three criteria proposed by Wicks and Crompton (1986) are representatives of the theories for the evaluation of fairness, but the essences are still the continuation of equality reform. The largest distribution efficiency of the urban green space was explored from the perspectives of geographic equity and space allotment fairness.…”

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Urban green space, uneven development and accessibility: a case of Dalian's Xigang District

Yang

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Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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This study examines the socio-spatial context of uneven development and the residential accessibility of green space in Dalian of Liaoning Province, China. The social fairness was analyzed with a community scale as the basis. We combined social scientific methods with a GIS method using a behavior accessibility model from the perspectives of fairness of urban green space allocation based on social geography, geographic information science, management science and many other related discipline theories. The results show that: 1) Most of the urban green space distribution presents an unbalanced phenomenon, and it does not match with the population distribution; 2) We found some differences in the accessibility of the population with different attributes and opportunities to use and enjoy the urban green spaces, mainly due to: the dual social and spatial attributes of the residents and the serious stratum differentiation generated were the internal causes; the residential space differentiation and the pursuit of economic and real estate development were the direct causes; and unreasonable planning, in regard to the fact that government policies did not give consideration to efficiency and fairness, was also an important factor.

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Equity and Planning For Local Services

Cited by 118 publications

References 18 publications

Got green? addressing environmental justice in park provision

Got green? addressing environmental justice in park provision

Justice in transport as justice in accessibility: applying Walzer’s ‘Spheres of Justice’ to the transport sector

Urban green space, uneven development and accessibility: a case of Dalian's Xigang District

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