Citation

Lewis F. Plann. Theor. 2012; 11(1): 44-65.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1473095211408056

PMID

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Abstract

In response to the US obesity epidemic, researchers in urban planning and public health have developed a number of built environment 'audits' to evaluate the presence of physical health determinants in neighborhoods and public spaces. These audits are most often framed in value-neutral and objective terms, overlooking the distributive justice dimension of built environment evaluations. I argue that audits always imply some underlying definition of distributive justice, and can be typologized according to three major theories, namely those of Mill, Rawls, and Sen. The study concludes with a practical model for framing the distributive dimension of audits.

Language: en