The Pointillistic City: How Microspatial Inequities Affect Well-Being in Our Communities, and What We Can Do about It - Couverture souple

O'Brien, Daniel T.

 
9780262550802: The Pointillistic City: How Microspatial Inequities Affect Well-Being in Our Communities, and What We Can Do about It
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ISBN 10 : 0262550806 ISBN 13 : 9780262550802
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2025

Synopsis

A new paradigm of research, policy, and practice that acknowledges the multiple scales at which we live every day.

The Pointillistic City explores the multilayer geography of our daily lives—specifically, how we simultaneously live at the scales of addresses, streets, and neighborhoods and how each can be relevant for our well-being. Not unlike the way in which we look at a pointillistic painting, which depicts a full scene through the detailed organization of multiple objects, Daniel T. O’Brien considers the three scales together and the comprehensive understanding of the city they offer. The pointillistic approach to the city contrasts with decades of focus on neighborhoods. As such, it surfaces microspatial inequities, or disparities in experiences between people living in the same neighborhood, even right around the corner from each other. Microspatial inequities have gone largely unnoticed to date, and their recognition offers a new approach to understanding and supporting the diverse population of the city.

This book illustrates the pointillistic perspective on cities with two in-depth case studies—one on crime, the other on environmental justice—in Boston. These studies highlight microspatial inequities and their interplay with broader neighborhood conditions, and they go even further by demonstrating how these insights can be incorporated into a new generation of policies and practices that are science driven and community led, truly addressing disparities both between and within our communities.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel T. O’Brien is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI), which advances civically engaged research in collaboration with the communities of greater Boston. He is the author of The Urban Commons and the textbook Urban Informatics.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262550806
ISBN 13 
9780262550802
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
342
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Personne responsable
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