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Cultivating Just Planning And Legal Institutions: A Critical Assessment Of The South Central Farm In Los Angeles, Clara Irazabal, Anita Punja
Cultivating Just Planning And Legal Institutions: A Critical Assessment Of The South Central Farm In Los Angeles, Clara Irazabal, Anita Punja
Clara Irazabal
The South Central Farm (SCF) in Los Angeles was a 14-acre urban farm in one of the highest concentrations of impoverished residents in the county. It was destroyed in July 2006. This article analyzes its epic as a landscape of resistance to discriminatory legal and planning practices. It then presents its creation and maintenance as an issue of environmental justice, and argues that there was a substantive rationale on the basis of environmental justice and planning ethics that should have provided sufficient grounds for the city to prevent its dismantling. Based on qualitative case study methodology, the study contributes to …