The articles we read this week outline the ways in which economic justice, or rather economic injustice, can play out in a person’s life, especially in the city. In the article by Formosa, Weber and Atkins titled “Gentrification and urban children’s well-being: Tipping the scales from problems to promise”, the authors go into great detail about the process by which the economic impact of gentrification has rippling effects for children growing up in an urban environment. According to the authors, gentrification has enormous social implications that translate to economic impacts. For example, the article discusses theories of “social capital”(400) that …

David Harvey’s article about a “right to the city” is an exploration of urban environments as a sort of ecosystem that seeks to regulate itself. The article describes issues of inequality that urbanization seeks to rectify in a way and primarily presents the idea that “urbanization is central to the survival of capitalism”. There is tension, in this description, between wants and needs in the urban space and the availability of those wanted or needed things. For example, the tension between unemployment and available employment. Harvey describes these as the coercive laws of competition. He also examines the parallels in …