Stanton I. Jones
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Current Research Interests
My research focuses upon issues pertaining to equity and
justice within the urban environment. Low-income communities and
communities-of-color have been, and continue to be, discriminated against
in many ways in today's urban, suburban, and rural contexts. Some of
this discrimination is overt, yet the majority of it is largely unseen or
unrecognized by those individuals or groups in positions of power or
control. The underlaying premise for much of my work is that there exist
large inequities with respect to the environmental health of our
urbanized areas, and that these inequities can be tied directly to race,
ethnicity, gender, ability, age, and income level.
My specific area of research focuses upon open space/public
space within urban areas, and strives to address the question of how
public/open space resources can and should be configured/considered in
light of an inequitably served, multicultural society. What should the
role of the design professional be? How can "mainstream" aesthetic
preferences be broadened to include more than just European-American
imagery? How can processes for the long-term management and control of
public spaces be altered to increase the "meaningfulness" and sense of
ownership that they elicit from their users? These are but a few of the
questions that guide my current work.
Recent Publications and Abstracts
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sij@aaa.uoregon.edu