Reproducing spatial inequality? The sustainability fix and barriers to urban mobility in Portland, Oregon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11670565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dillon Mahmoudi (0000-0002-8816-1639, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, corresponding author), Amy Lubitow (0000-0002-9019-9871, Portland State University), Mackenzie A Christensen (0000-0001-9124-9888, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 801-822 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02723638.2019.1698865 |
| OpenAlex | W2992977605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 49 |
We explore how the language of “just sustainability” may become subsumed into a sustainability fix strategy, depoliticizing the utility of concepts such as justice and/or equity. Building from critical GIS insights, we combine digitized spatial data from participatory mapping exercises and community-organization-based focus group in Portland, Oregon, regarding a proposed six-mile biking and walking path around downtown. We find that 80 percent of participants’ typical travel destinations are outside of downtown Portland and that participants experience planning and sustainability in a highly localized manner, challenging the equity rationale of downtown investment. We argue the top-down planning model, which presumes that the spatial diffusion of benefits is equitable, is inherently ahistorical and fails to benefit those in historically marginalized neighborhoods. Finally, we argue for the value of community-oriented research, which, in this case, inspired a coalition of community organizations to formally oppose a city-led project based on the inequitable distribution of infrastructure benefits
Civil engineering · Downtown · Environmental justice · Environmental planning · Equity (law · Geography · Land use · Political science · Sociology · Sustainability · Urban planning · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Integrating Ibn Khaldun’s wisdom into urban sustainability
The Potential Use of Electric Bicycles in the Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso, Chile, Through Participatory Mapping and Focus Groups Supported by AI Data Processing
Conceptualizing Urban Inequalities as a Complex Socio‐Technical Phenomenon
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”
Digitalisation and social inclusion in multi-scalar smart energy transitions
Improving Participation for Sustainable Transport
We are the Green Capital”
Mapping Juvenile Justice
Greening cities while feeding injustices? Discussing the urban greening paradox
Fixing motorisation
An urban resilience fix
Hunting in a pack? Interrogating the publicness of Mobility as a Service in Brussels
Critical geographies of transport and mobility
Unequal realities and racialized geographies
American Apartheid
Transport Justice
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes
Distributive justice and equity in transportation
Evaluating Social Justice in Transport
The Effects of the 1930s Holc “Redlining” Maps
A justice-theoretic approach to the distribution of transportation benefits
A Retrospective View of Equity Planning Cleveland 1969–1979
Just Sustainabilities
Insurance Redlining, Agency Location, and the Process of Urban Disinvestment
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
Contesting Sustainability
Civil rights guidance and equity analysis methods for regional transportation plans
Neighborhood Access to Transit by Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty in Portland, Or
On resistance in the post-political city
Community context, human needs, and transportation choices
Contested spaces and subjectivities of transit
Transport accessibility and social inequities
Using principles of justice to assess the modal equity of regional transportation plans
A Qualitative Method for Collecting Spatial Data on Important Places for Recreation, Livelihoods, and Ecological Meanings
Environmental Justice and the New Regionalism
Uneven development of the sustainable city
Gis and Collaborative Urban Governance
Constructing the narrative of the sustainability fix
Exploring the synergistic economic benefit of enhancing neighbourhood bikeability and public transit accessibility based on real estate sale transactions
Restructuring and women's reproductive health
Feminist geographies of new spatial media
Toward Environmental Justice
Entrepreneurial urbanism, state restructuring and civilizing ‘New’ East Manchester
Feminist digital geographies
Beyond Distribution and Proximity
Urban Informality
Gis methods in time-geographic research
A General Inductive Approach for Analyzing Qualitative Evaluation Data
Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism
Feminist Visualization
Assessing Spatial Equity
Poststructuralism and GIS
The environment and the entrepreneurial city
Pimping Climate Change
Revisiting critical GIS
Bleeding Albina
"Wiped Out by the "Greenwave
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |