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Franklin Park is a 527-acre park situated at the meeting point of five demographically diverse neighborhoods that contain the majority of the City of Boston’s communities of color. No other park within the Emerald Necklace, Boston’s extensive park system, is surrounded by such d…

This dissertation examines contemporary urban land-use and housing conflicts in Cape Town, a racially segregated and unequal city. I follow Reclaim the City (RTC), a movement of predominantly Black, poor and working-class people that, since 2016, has called for “spatial justice”…

This qualitative grounded theory study sought to understand how different stakeholders collaborate to improve schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. 52 diverse individuals participated in this study. A new hybrid approach of collective action, referred to as accommodating action …