Overview
- Provides timely conceptual and practical support for public housing redevelopment
- Advances the idea of spatial justice through enhancing its practicality in critical spatial analysis and planning
- Contributes to international efforts to urban justice by adding New Zealand’s model of public housing provision
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Like many countries around the world, social housing in Aotearoa New Zealand is an area of contention, especially at the building and redevelopment stages. Protecting community character and human rights has been used by social housing tenants to resist changes, but the primary focus on material outcomes neglects broadening access toplanning processes. Compact, mixed tenure and sustainable (re)developments are regarded as the just built environment, as they enable equal accessibility to all. But there are contradictions between the planned spatiality of justice and individuals’ socialised sensory space. Reconciliation of morphological differentiations in built forms and social cohesion remains a challenging task.
This book focuses on the re-examination, integration and transferability of spatial justice. It makes a new contribution to urban justice theory by strengthening spatial justice and planning. Social housing areas are expected to adapt to changing social and economic demands while retaining much-valued established community character. This book also provides practical strategies for tackling complex planning problems in social housing redevelopment.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr Shaoxu Wang was a researcher at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland before she began working at Auckland Council. She has an educational background in geography and planning. Focusing on social and spatial inequalities, marginalised groups and social policy analysis, her research bridges sociology, human geography and planning.
Dr Kai Gu is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland. Supported by the British Economic and Social Research Council, the Canadian International Development Agency and the Natural Science Foundation of China, most of his research publications are on urban morphology and planning. His recent research projects explore the spatial composition of urban landscapes and socio-economic processes in the production of (in)justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Justice and Planning
Book Subtitle: Reshaping Social Housing Communities in a Changing Society
Authors: Shaoxu Wang, Kai Gu
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38070-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38069-3Published: 26 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38072-3Due: 26 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38070-9Published: 25 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 172
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Human Geography, Cities, Countries, Regions, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights