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  • Looking Toward Restorative Justice for Redlined Communities Displaced by Eco-Gentrification

    MJEAL chose to publish Helen Kang’s piece, Looking Toward Restorative Justice for Redlined Communities Displaced by Eco-Gentrification, because it offers a unique analytic approach for analyzing the roots of environmental racism and the appropriate tools to help rectify it. She offers an argument for why restorative justice needs to be the framework and explains how we can accomplish this in the context of a whole government solution. MJEAL is excited to offer what will be an influential approach for environmental restorative justice to the broader activist and academic community.

  • Chicago’s Construction Boom: Who Is It For?

    By Miguel Medina Associate Editor, Vol. 25 Chicago’s Vista Tower, currently under construction. Anyone from Chicago knows quite well that construction is booming. With 33 new high rises in progress, Downtown continues to boast an increasingly packed skyline .”[i] As a summer associate at a…

  • Complicating the Gentrification Discussion

    By Andrew Goddeeris, Online Publications Editor, Vol. 20 “Gentrification” is simultaneously (1) difficult for urban planners and economists to quantify and explain and (2) commonly debated by people of a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. It takes on different connotations for different people, but one common image is that…