Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development, combining progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity.

Preface
Introduction: Toward an Urban Theory of Justice
1. Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Justice
2. Justice and Urban Transformation: Planning in Context
3. New York
4. London
5. Amsterdam: A Just City?
6. Conclusion: Toward the Just City
References
Index

Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is the author of The City Builders and coauthor of Restructuring the City and Urban Political Movements.