JUST AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES. IN: JUST TRANSPORTATION: DISMANTLING RACE & CLASS BARRIERS TO MOBILITY

This article proves a conceptual framework for understanding the environmental justice dimensions of transportation policy, the transportation system, and its effects on urban communities of color, poor and working people. The interrelationships between transportation, community economic development, urban revitalization, land use, energy efficiency and environmental protection are examined from the perspectives and experiences of urban communities of color and the Urban Habitat Program in the Sand Francisco Bay Area. While there has been a lot written on the transportation, energy, environmental and urban design linkages, there has been very little directly written to address the racial, class, cultural and environmental justice dimensions of transportation policy and the current transportation system.