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Planning the Green New Deal: Climate Justice and the Politics of Sites and Scales

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Climate change and the rise of a grassroots–legislative political–environmental movement in the United States should change how urban planners think and act on spatial change and social justice. After the 2018 U.S. elections, organizing movements and progressive legislators endorsed the Green New Deal. In this Viewpoint I look at the Green New Deal’s potential implications for urban planning. I analyze it in reference to the 1930s’ New Deal inspirations and current climate and urban challenges, and illustrate the contradictions between large-scale spatial change and community-scale social justice. I explain how the imperatives of the Green New Deal, in conjunction with the shifting sites, scales, and politics of planning for climate change, should encourage planners to reframe their spaces and politics of practice toward a reconceptualized urban regional scale and a new politics of more public participation.

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  • Kian Goh, 2020. "Planning the Green New Deal: Climate Justice and the Politics of Sites and Scales," Journal of the American Planning Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 86(2), pages 188-195, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjpaxx:v:86:y:2020:i:2:p:188-195
    DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2019.1688671
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    1. Mohaddese Ghadiri & Robert Newell, 2024. "Rethinking Public Transit Networks Using Climate Change Mitigation and Social Justice Lenses: Great Victoria Area Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-23, March.
    2. Danielle Zoe Rivera, 2021. "Design in Planning: Reintegration through Shifting Values," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(1), pages 93-104.
    3. Joshua Long, 2021. "Crisis Capitalism and Climate Finance: The Framing, Monetizing, and Orchestration of Resilience-Amidst-Crisis," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(2), pages 51-63.
    4. Federica Leone & Ala Hasan & Francesco Reda & Hassam ur Rehman & Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli & Francesco Nocera & Vincenzo Costanzo, 2023. "Supporting Cities towards Carbon Neutral Transition through Territorial Acupuncture," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-31, February.
    5. J. Amy Belaire & Heather Bass & Heather Venhaus & Keri Barfield & Tim Pannkuk & Katherine Lieberknecht & Shalene Jha, 2023. "High-Performance Landscapes: Re-Thinking Design and Management Choices to Enhance Ecological Benefits in Urban Environments," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-18, August.
    6. Kian Goh, 0. "Urbanising climate justice: constructing scales and politicising difference," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 13(3), pages 559-574.

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