Centering equity and justice in land use-transportation coordination

This chapter describes how racialized practices of exclusion, disinvestment, and displacement and their ongoing legacies continue to impact individuals, families, and communities. It recognizes potential benefits of popular land-use and transport strategies, such as promoting transit-oriented and walkable development, but it also challenges professionals to examine potential downsides of current policy choices, particularly reducing affordable housing opportunities in highly-accessible areas. The chapter is organized around four prominent concepts in land use and transportation field that require some shifting to adequately prioritize equity and justice: (1) learning from the land use-transportation successes around the globe; (2) land use-transportation coordination as a future-oriented endeavor; (3) the role of regionalism in land use-transportation coordination; and (4) accessibility as a central tenet of land use-transportation coordination. It concludes by asking readers to reflect on how we might modify our current approaches to further center equity and justice in our land use-transportation work.