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This invaluable collection sets out to pursue the imaginary of the "climate-just city." Climate justice, to the volume editors and contributors, is the equal protection of all urbanites from meteorological hazards and the even distribution of the benefits from climate security. The volume's 12 chapters--distributed across sections on theory, praxis, and resistance--underscore that the abiding concern of climate justice is predicated on economic, racial, and social justice. The collection's overarching argument is that climate injustices are the accumulation of economic, racial, and social injustices that continue into urban injustices. Building on this premise, the volume's editors and contributors bind climate justice to urban justice. Just as redlining, bluelining, and greenlining kept communities of color and low-income families from owning homes, so will "carbon gentrification" and "climate-proof neighborhoods" drive their flight. Green gentrification results from sundering ties between climate and urban justice. The editors connect climate change and its implications for urban justice to "the persistent histories of (settler) colonization, environmental racism, and heteropatriarchy that structure our cities." The collection is an elegant synthesis of historical and contemporary scholarship on climate justice and urban justice studies.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; general readers.