Resources · Centre for the Just City
A library
for spatial
justice.
Eight thematic sections gathering academic references, videos, podcasts, organisations and tools on spatial justice, democracy, participation and the three dimensions of justice — distributive, procedural, recognition. Filter by theme or type to navigate.
§ I
Works by the Centre.
24 entries
- Reference2025
Revisiting Social Resilience in Informal Settlements: Paraisópolis Community Action during COVID-19 in São Paulo
Routledge
Open
- Reference2025
Everything About Climate Change Is Disproportionate: Principles for Spatial Justice in Urban Climate Action
Geo, 12(2), e70024
Open - Reference2025
Envisioning Spatial Justice
Jap Sam Books
Open - Reference2022
Actually Existing Commons: Using the Commons to Reclaim the City
Social Inclusion, 10(1), 91–102
Open - Reference2026
A Case Study of Deteriorating Services in Two South African Townships and Possible Implications for Spatial Justice
Forthcoming chapter (Murray & Pauw, Eds.)
Open - Reference2014
Why Discuss Spatial Justice in Urbanism Studies
ATLANTIS, 24(4), 14–16
Open - Reference2022
Spatial Justice: A Crucial Dimension of Sustainability
In: Teaching, Learning & Researching Spatial Planning, TU Delft OPEN
Open - Reference2022
Teaching Spatial Justice: Four Exercises on Communicative Rationality
In: Teaching Design for Values, TU Delft OPEN, 54–77
Open - Reference2023
Manifestos as Exercises of Hope and Care
In: Manifesto for the Just City, Vol. 3, TU Delft OPEN, 8–24
Open - Reference2025
The Capabilities Approach as an Opportunity for Spatial Justice
In: Envisioning Spatial Justice, Jap Sam Books
Open - Reference2026
Spatial Justice: The Basics
Routledge
Open - Reference2022
A Manifesto for the Just City, Volume 2
TU Delft OPEN
Open - Reference2024
Insurgent Planning Practice
Bristol University Press (Agenda)
Open - Reference2018
The Political Meaning of Informal Urbanisation
In: The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation
Open - Reference2022
The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation
Routledge
Open - Reference2024
Urbanism Policy Briefs
The Evolving Scholar, TU Delft OPEN
Open - Reference2022
Teaching, Learning and Researching Spatial Planning
TU Delft OPEN
Open - Reference2024
The Spatial Justice Handbook
TU Delft OPEN
Open - Reference2024
A Manifesto for the Just City, Volume 4
TU Delft OPEN Publishing
Open - Reference2021
The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID-19
TU Delft
Open - Reference2019
Characterization of Spatial Planning in Brazil: The Right to the City in Theory and Practice
Planning Practice and Research, 35(1), 5–20
Open - Reference2022
Teaching Design for Values
TU Delft OPEN
Open - Reference2021
Geographies of Conflict: Towards Liberation, Self-Determination and Spatial Justice in Sri Lanka’s North-East
MSc Thesis, TU Delft
Open - Reference2013
The Ideologies of Informality: Informal Urbanisation in Architectural and Planning Discourses
Third World Quarterly, 34(10), 1794–1810
Open
§ II
The three dimensions of justice.
8 entries
- Reference1990
Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy
Social Text, 25/26, 56–80
Open - Reference1999
Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation
In: Culture and Economy after the Cultural Turn (Ray & Sayer, Eds.), SAGE, 25–52
Open - Reference2022
Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet
Verso
Open - Reference2017
Distributive Justice and Equity in Transportation
Transport Reviews, 37(2), 170–191
Open - Reference1983
On Spatial Justice
Environment and Planning A, 15(4), 465–473
Open - Reference2007
Reconceiving Environmental Justice: Global Movements and Political Theories
Environmental Politics, 13(4), 517–540
Open - Reference2018
Spatial Justice as Analytic Framework
PhD Thesis, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Open - Reference2011
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Princeton University Press
Open
§ III
Right to the city & critical urban theory.
27 entries
- Reference2012
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
Routledge
Open - Reference2010
End of Millennium (trilogy)
Wiley-Blackwell
Open - Reference2009
Space, Politics and (In)Justice
Justice Spatiale, no. 1
Open - Reference2010
The Just City
Cornell University Press
Open - Reference2015
Defining the Just City Beyond Black and White
The Just City Essays, Vol. 1
Open - Reference1973
Social Justice and the City
University of Georgia Press
Open - Reference2003
The Right to the City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 27(4), 939–941
Open - Reference2008
The Right to the City
New Left Review, II/53 (Sept/Oct), 23–40
Open - Reference2012
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Verso
Open - Reference2011
Social or Spatial Justice? Marcuse and Soja on the Right to the City
City, 15(2), 250–259
Open - Reference2017
Special Issue: Public Space and Urban Justice
Built Environment, 43(2), 161–304
Open - Reference2020
On Strike / En Grève
Justice Spatiale / Spatial Justice
Open - Reference2017
Detroit Geographical Expedition: Unpacking the History and Structure of the DGEI
Antipode
Open - Reference1976
Reflections on the Politics of Space
Antipode, 8(1), 30–37
Open - Reference2016
Propositions for More Just Urban Public Spaces
City, 20(1), 10–31
Open - Reference2009
From Critical Urban Theory to the Right to the City
City, 13(2-3), 185–197
Open - Reference2009
Spatial Justice: Derivative but Causal of Social Injustice
Justice Spatiale, no. 1
Open - Reference1979
In What Sense a Regional Problem?
Regional Studies, 13(2), 233–243
Open - Reference2005
For Space
Sage, Thousand Oaks CA
Open - Reference2003
The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
The Guilford Press
Open - Reference2011
The Making of Urban Security
Justice Spatiale, no. 4
Open - Reference2015
Spatial Justice: Body Lawscape Atmosphere
Routledge
Open - Reference2017
Law’s Spatial Turn: Geography, Justice and a Certain Fear of Space
Law, Culture and the Humanities, 187–202
Open - Reference2020
Visibility in Public Space and Socially Inclusive Cities
In: Companion to Public Space, Routledge, 137–151
Open - Reference1980
The Socio-Spatial Dialectic
Annals of the AAG, 70(2), 207–225
Open - Reference2009
The City and Spatial Justice
Justice Spatiale, no. 1 (Sept. 2009)
Open - Reference2010
Seeking Spatial Justice
University of Minnesota Press
Open
§ IV
Insurgent planning, informality & decolonial.
12 entries
- Reference2000
City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
University of California Press
Open - Reference2025
Precarious Settlement Upgrading and Racial Capitalism: Planning Authoritarianism and Its Crossroads for Democracy
Urban Planning, 10
Open - Reference1995
Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship
Planning Theory, 13, 35–52
Open - Reference2008
Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
Princeton University Press
Open - Reference2013
Cities with “Slums”: From Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa
UCT Press
Open - Reference2004
Invited and Invented Spaces of Participation: Neoliberal Citizenship and Feminists’ Expanded Notion of Politics
Wagadu, 1, 1–7
Open - Reference2009
Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South
Planning Theory, 8(1), 32–50
Open - Reference2018
Insurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s)
In: Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Open - Reference2022
Insurgent Practices of Hope and Care for Humane Urbanism
In: Manifesto for the Just City, Vol. 2, TU Delft OPEN
Open - Reference2017
Indigenous Planning: From Principles to Practice
Planning Theory & Practice, 18(4), 639–666
Open - Reference2009
Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization
Planning Theory, 8(1), 76–87
Open - Reference2016
Trayectoria de la(s) justicia(s) espacial(es) en América Latina
In: Justicia e injusticias espaciales, UNR Editora
Open
§ V
Democracy, participation & citizenship.
52 entries
- Reference2018
Democracy Disconnected: Participation and Governance in a City of the South
Routledge
Open - Reference2006
The Epistemology of Democracy
Episteme, 3(1-2), 8–22
Open - Reference2010
Living under Democracy: Participation and the Living Conditions of the Poor
JLASA, 45
Open - Reference2023
American Democracy Is Cracking. These Forces Help Explain Why
The Washington Post
Open - Reference2016
The Trouble with Democracy
Al Jazeera Opinions
Open - Reference1988
Democracy, State, and Justice: Critical Perspectives and New Interpretations
Almqvist & Wiksell International
Open - Reference2020
Faith in Democracy: Millennials Are the Most Disillusioned Generation
Bennett Institute, Cambridge
Open - Reference2007
Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics
The MIT Press
Open - Reference2019
Building Digital Cities from the Ground Up: Data Sovereignty and Participatory Democracy in Barcelona
CIDOB
Open - Reference2004
Participatory Budgeting: A Significant Contribution to Participatory Democracy
Environment & Urbanization, 16(1), 27–46
Open - Reference2017
The Great British Brexit Robbery: How Our Democracy Was Hijacked
The Guardian
Open - Reference2020
The Ultimate Stress Test of American Democracy Is upon Us
The New Yorker
Open - Reference1997
Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
University of Cape Town
Open - Reference2019
Amartya Sen’s Hopes and Fears for Indian Democracy
The New Yorker
Open - Reference2005
Participation and Public Policies in Brazil
In: Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Gastil & Levine, Eds.), Jossey-Bass
Open - Reference2007
Spaces for Change? The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas
Zed Books
Open - Reference2016
The Case against Democracy
The New Yorker
Open - Reference2002
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
Open - Reference2009
Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication, and Democracy
Cambridge University Press
Open - Reference2002
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations
Oxford University Press
Open - Reference2015
European Charter on Participatory Democracy in Spatial Planning Processes
ECTP-CEU
Open - Reference2011
When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
Oxford University Press
Open - Reference1999
The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes
MIT Press
Open - Reference2020
The Middle East Doesn’t Lack Democracy. It Has Too Much
The Washington Post
Open - Reference2023
Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere
Media, Communication and Society Vol. 6, Routledge
Open - Reference1991
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The MIT Press
Open - Reference1996
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
Polity Press / MIT Press
Open - Reference2010
If Democracies Need Informed Voters, How Can They Thrive While Expanding Enfranchisement?
Election Law Journal, 9(2), 111–123
Open - Reference2018
How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy
UCLA Law Review, 78
Open - Reference2017
Two Eminent Political Scientists: The Problem with Democracy Is Voters
VOX
Open - Reference2004
Reframing Public Participation: Strategies for the 21st Century
Planning Theory & Practice, 5(4), 419–436
Open - Reference2017
Is There a Crisis of Participatory Planning?
Planning Theory, 16(4), 425–442
Open - Reference2000
The Democratic Paradox
Verso
Open - Reference2014
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Verso
Open - Reference2018
Why Democracy Doesn’t Deliver
Foreign Policy
Open - Reference2002
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices
Comparative Political Studies, 35(1), 5–34
Open - Reference2015
Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy
Wiley
Open - Reference2019
Outlooks on Participating: People, Plans & Places 1
Built Environment, 45(1)
Open - Reference2020
The Problem with Democracy — It’s You
The Article
Open - Reference2018
Democracy without Participation: A New Politics for a Disengaged Era
Res Publica, 24, 31–52
Open - Reference1970
Participation and Democratic Theory
Cambridge University Press
Open - Reference2023
The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities
Edward Elgar
Open - Reference2018
Politics Shouldn’t Be Like Open Mic Night
The New York Times
Open - Reference2017
More Professionalism, Less Populism: How Voting Makes Us Stupid
Brookings
Open - Reference1971
A Theory of Justice
Harvard University Press
Open - Reference2019
Voting Could Be the Problem with Democracy
The Conversation
Open - Reference2016
Why Elections Are Bad for Democracy
The Guardian
Open - Reference2019
Overcoming the Failures of Citizen Participation
Planning Theory, 18(4), 448–469
Open - Reference2010
From Participation to the Right to the City: Democratic Place Management at the Neighbourhood Scale
Planning Practice and Research, 25(3), 297–316
Open - Reference2019
Many across the Globe Are Dissatisfied with How Democracy Is Working
Pew Research Centre
Open - Reference2000
Inclusion and Democracy
Oxford University Press
Open - Reference2006
Responsibility and Global Justice: A Social Connection Model
Social Philosophy and Policy, 23(1), 102–130
Open
§ VI
Climate, housing & environmental justice.
20 entries
- Reference2016
Trends and Directions in Environmental Justice
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 41, 321–340
Open - Reference2014
Contesting Climate Justice in the City
Global Environmental Change, 25, 31–40
Open - Reference2025
Theocratic Authoritarian Urbanism and Performative Right to the City: Tehran’s City Theatre
City
Open - Reference2020
The Right to Not Catch Up — Territorial Cohesion towards Spatial Justice for Sustainability
Sustainability, 12(11), 4797
Open - Reference2001
Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century
University Press of Kansas
Open - Reference2023
Decolonising Data Science Education
TU Delft Open Science
Open - Reference2017
Austerity Urbanism in England: The “Regressive Redistribution” of Local Government Services
Environment and Planning A, 49.9, 2007–2024
Open - Reference2007
Natural and Imposed Injustices: Implementing “Fair” Flood Risk Management Policy in England
The Geographical Journal, 173(4), 374–390
Open - Reference2017
Transport Justice: Designing Fair Transportation Systems
Routledge
Open - Reference2018
Reimagining “Justice” in Environmental Justice: Decolonial Thought and the Black Radical Tradition
EPE: Nature and Space, 1(1-2), 79–98
Open - Reference2018
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Bloomsbury
Open - Reference2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Liveright
Open - Reference2017
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
New Economics Foundation / Zed Books
Open - Reference2014
From Environmental to Climate Justice: Climate Change and the Discourse of Environmental Justice
WIREs Climate Change, 5(3), 291–433
Open - Reference2013
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
University of Chicago Press
Open - Reference2017
The Right to the City and Cities for All
Habitat III Policy Papers
Open - Reference2012
Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics
Routledge
Open - Reference2014
Sustainable Urban Development Reader
Routledge
Open - Reference2012
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
University of Chicago Press
Open - Reference2014
Urban Green Space, Public Health, and Environmental Justice
Landscape and Urban Planning, 125, 234–244
Open
§ VII
Videos & podcasts.
19 entries
- Video / Podcast2017
The Help Yourself City
99% Invisible · Podcast
Open - Video / Podcast2011
Ekümenopolis: Ucu Olmayan Şehir (Ecumenopolis: City Without End)
Documentary · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2020
What is Spatial Justice
YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2018
David Harvey and the City
Antipode Foundation film · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2011
Spatial Justice: Radical Spatial Foundations
Lecture · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2011
Seeking Spatial Justice and the Right to the City
Lecture · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2020
Planning, Inequality, and the Geography of Power in Israel/Palestine
Centre for the Just City · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2020
Defending Your Block: How to Stay, Fight, and Build
Vimeo
Open - Video / Podcast2010
Even the Rain (feature film)
SBS On Demand
Open - Video / Podcast2017
Bijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1)
99% Invisible · Podcast
Open - Video / Podcast2016
Community of Hope (“They’re gonna build a Walmart here…”)
Music video · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2018
Experiences of Struggles for Housing Rights in Brazil
YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2020
The Spatial Justice of the Commons
UN-Habitat Global Urban Lecture Series · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2020
Geographies of Racial Capitalism
Antipode Foundation film · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2010
The Miniature Earth, 2010 edition
YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2020
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement — Feature Documentary
YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast1981
Ghost Town
Music video · YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2017
On the Way to the Doctor
YouTube
Open - Video / Podcast2020
Design for Spatial Justice Podcast Series
Podcast
Open
§ VIII
Other resources.
15 entries
- Resource2020
A List of Audio-Visual Resources to Teach Planning Practice and Theory
Curated list
Open - Resource2017
The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute: Then and Now
Field Notes No. 4
Open - Resource2017
The Space and Race Reading List
Reading list assembled after Charlottesville 2017
Open - Resource2015
Art Activism: Activating Public Spaces
Artist platform
Open - Resource1995
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Program
Citizen science programme
Open - Resource2010
My NASA Data
Educational data portal
Open - Resource2020
Public Art for Spatial Justice
Grant programme
Open - Resource2020
A Global Network and Crowdsourcing Platform on Public Participation and Democratic Innovations
Open platform
Open - Resource2020
A List of Songs about Urban Inequality
Excel download
Open - Resource2020
Complex Cities of the Global South · Graduation Studio
TU Delft
Open - Resource2020
Spatial Justice Studio · Centre for Design Innovation
Studio · USA
Open - Resource2015
The Citizen Science Association
Network
Open - Resource2018
Spatial Justice BLOG
Blog
Open - Resource2017
Major Infrastructure Projects: Findings & Recommendations
UCL Summary Booklet
Open - Resource2015
EJSCREEN: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
EPA mapping tool
Open
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Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic. There is an ideology of space. Because space, which seems homogeneous, which appears as a whole in its objectivity, in its pure form, such as we determine it, is a social product.
— Henri Lefebvre · Reflections on the Politics of Space · Antipode, vol. 8, 1976, p. 31Centre for the Just City · TU Delft · Resources library
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