Simin Davoudi City All Manuals & Guides sku-50090785

Justice and Fairness in the City: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to 'Ordinary' Cities is a hardcover volume listed under Simin Davoudi in All Manuals & Guides. It examines fairness and justice in urban life. The description discusses political debates in the United Kingdom, including Prime Minister David Cameron's effort to claim fairness as a Conservative concept and the Labour Party's effort to define social justice.

It describes fairness commissions in Islington, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, York, Blackpool and Tower Hamlets, among other places. Contributors draw on planning, politics, geography, ethics, education, law and urban design.

Their chapters cover well-being and local environmental justice; education, young people and fair opportunities; mobility, spatial justice and the right to the city; and participation, procedural fairness and social justice. They also consider the city's role in the twenty-first-century global political economy and the unequal lives found within contemporary urban spaces. SKU: sku-50090785.