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Letters from Environmental Building News
December 1, 2009
A Wider View of Social Justice
Your October feature on “Integrating Social Justice into Green Design” contains some good first steps for designers who may be unfamiliar with the issue but leaves the most important topics in this area undiscussed. Providing healthy interior spaces and shared community amenities are a good start, but “social justice” generally refers to redressing the major inequities in society today, especially socio-economic disparity and discrimination against minority groups. The ongoing failure of our country to provide dignified housing, school facilities, and other basics of community life to all its residents is a major social justice issue with clear implications for the planners of physical facilities. The injustices exposed around hurricane Katrina and the foreclosure crisis gripping the country are only two manifestations of the major failures in social justice we continue to experience....
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