Title: Resilient Cities: Building Community Control

Published by: Race, Poverty & the Environment Journal

Date: Fall 2009

Excerpt:

“From a grassroots perspective, building community resilience and higher degrees of material self-sufficiency will be critical towards ensuring that communities of color weather coming ecological transitions. The basic needs of urban communities of color— such as access to potable water, healthy food, and mass transit—will otherwise be at stake in an era of heightened ecological stress.”

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