The Just City
HIST 1515: Race, Class, and Communities (Instructor: Hongyan Yang)
ENVS 1515: Nature, Environment, and Infrastructure (Instructor: Courtney Humphries)
Enduring Question: What is a just city?
Cities are diverse and dynamic places characterized by social and environmental inequalities across space, with some areas subject to greater levels of poverty, economic disinvestment, and public health risks than others. This unevenness has led to greater calls for social and environmental justice. But how do these inequalities arise, and what makes a more just city? These paired Enduring Questions courses investigated these questions from social, spatial, and environmental perspectives. As part of the Just City courses, students developed ArcGIS Story Maps that present environmental and historical research in neighborhoods in the Boston area.
Student Projects
Thank You!
Melanie Hubbard, Boston College Libraries
Enid, Karr, Boston College Libararies
Bee Lehman, Boston College Libraries
Lydia Lowe, Chinatown Community Land Trust
Garrett Nelson, Leventhal Map & Education Center
Katherine Willis, Boston College Data Visualization Lab
Core Curriculum, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
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