178452

The Just City: A Socio - Economic and Environmental Perspective.

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Civil and Architectural Engineering

Abstract

This paper aims to review just city concept, exploring it from a triple bottom line perspective that has social, economic, and environmental dimensions. Applying this concept is valuable because it ensures just distribution of resources and efficient allocation among citizens. The paper question is what are the economic, social and environmental dimensions of a just city? It adopts an inductive theoretical methodology. It is based on secondary data analysis research design. It is divided into six parts: introduction, definitions, justice dimensions, advantages of justice and disadvantages of injustice, reasons and consequences of urban injustice and finally the conclusion. This paper ends with some conclusions: many cities all over the world suffer from urban injustice. As a result, social problems appear such as segregation, alienation and higher crime indicators. From economic perspective there are disparities in opportunities, income level and wealth. And from environmental perspective there are disparities in quality of environment such as pollution indicators, access to green public spaces and quality of urban life. There is also injustice in public services distribution like education, healthcare, urban public spaces, public transportations, infrastructures and so on. These public services could be used as an indicator of urban justice. This paper gives some recommendation: all people should be integrated in urban production process. All people should have equitable access to all public services, opportunities and high quality of life specially marginalized groups. To guarantee them sufficiency of their human rights, and life without conflicts to move towards a more just world.

DOI

10.21608/eijest.2021.68960.1059

Keywords

Just city, Social Justice, economic Justice, Environmental justice, Justice measurements

Authors

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Architectural department, faculty of engineering, zagazig university, zagazig city, Egypt

Email

aamelsayed@zu.edu.eg

City

Minia- elkameh

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First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Abuzekry

MiddleName

Tarek

Affiliation

Architectural, Factual of engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig City, Egypt

Email

tabuzekry@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elmenshawy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,Zaqaziq university,Zaqaziq City,Egypt

Email

archmensh6@gmail.com

City

Minia-Elqamh

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Volume

35

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

25797

Issue Date

2021-09-01

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2021-03-23

Publish Date

2021-09-01

Page Start

27

Page End

36

Print ISSN

1687-8493

Online ISSN

2682-3640

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1,348

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Publication Title

The Egyptian International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Technology

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https://eijest.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Just City: A Socio - Economic and Environmental Perspective.

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Created At

23 Jan 2023