Review of Architecture at Home

Abstract

Some designers, planners, and scholars have called for a more expansive perspective on justice by moving from environmental justice to ecological justice. Environmental justice is concerned with historical and current injustice—such as access to resources, environmental risks, and exposure to hazards. Ecological justice, however, addresses “both environmental justice and the ecological quality of our practices” (Dimitris Stevis, “Whose Ecological Justice?” This ecological shift is a call to understanding relationships and systems. It explicitly works with connections inherent in ecological processes—including the urban and the human. Ecological justice also acknowledges and fosters relationships with other species and abiotic systems. This expanding perspective also positions the current housing crises as a central and urgent ecological justice concern.