Book Review: Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice

London, Jeffrey

doi:10.1111/cico.12251

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“…Will the features be distributed equitably, for example, which neighborhoods will get esthetically pleasing GI versus unsightly earthen berms? Can significant greening investments provide local resilience benefits but displace current residents to more risky areas (Gould and Lewis 2016)? What role should planned retreat play in making space for extreme events?…”

Section: How Can We Tell If Gi Is Working?mentioning

confidence: 99%

How reliable – and (net) beneficial – is the green in green infrastructure

Groffman

Matsler

Grabowski

2023

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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The idea of green infrastructure (GI) has generated great interest and creativity in addressing a range of challenging and expensive environmental problems, from coastal resilience to control of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). The appeal of GI stems from its cost savings compared to traditional “gray” infrastructure and the multiple benefits it provides, including biodiversity, aesthetics, and carbon sequestration. For example, a “green” approach to controlling CSOs in New York City saved $1.5 billion compared to a “gray” approach. Despite these advantages, GI still does not have detailed design and reliability specifications as compared to engineered gray infrastructure, potentially hindering its adoption. In this paper, we review some of the potential applications of GI in modern environmental science and discuss how reliability and associated (un)certainty in net benefits need to be addressed to realize the potential of this new approach.

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Section: How Can We Tell If Gi Is Working?mentioning

confidence: 99%

How reliable – and (net) beneficial – is the green in green infrastructure

Groffman

Matsler

Grabowski

2023

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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“…A case in point is the 'greening' in North American cities, which has become part of an entrepreneurial development agenda that reproduces a real estate-focused, PPP-dominated model of emissions reduction (McKendry, 2013: 24). In this model of 'green gentrification', urban densification, park expansions and the creation of '15-minute-neighbourhoods' dovetail with the attraction of high-wage workers, displacements and racial segregation (Gould and Lewis, 2016;Rice et al, 2020).…”

Section: Urban Climate Change Mitigation Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

Wansleben,

Neumann

2023

Urban Studies

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Urban studies have shown that the affordances, constraints and forms of urban climate change mitigation often emerge from ‘entrepreneurial’ modes of governance that have developed in post-Fordist cities. However, comparative research stresses that concepts focused on the growing power of private capital under neoliberalisation are inadequate to comprehend developments in German cities. In this article, we argue that municipally owned corporations occupy critical positions in climate change mitigation governance. While municipal ownership of utilities in principle increases local governance capacities, municipally owned corporations’ roles are shaped by fiscal relations and asymmetric organisational capacities between ‘agents’ and ‘principals’. In the case of Cologne, we show that the city has failed to leverage ownership over its public energy utility to decarbonise energy provision. Managers were able to assert corporate interests in the face of fragmented political actors and entrenched fiscal crisis. In this context of political incapacity and fragmentation, environmental social movements become important actors for translating widely shared decarbonisation objectives into concrete political demands towards municipally owned corporations.

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“…Green gentrification (also referred to as environmental or ecological gentrification) involves processes in which lower-class (and often non-White) residents are symbolically or physically displaced from the inner-city neighbourhoods that are subject to urban greening and densification (e.g. Anguelovski, 2016;Anguelovski et al, 2019;Checker, 2011;Curran and Hamilton, 2012;Dooling, 2009;Gould and Lewis, 2016;Immergluck and Balan, 2018;Quastel, 2009;Quastel et al, 2012;Rice et al, 2020). These processes may involve a parallel exclusion by increasing housing prices because dense, multifunctional, and 'green' urban cores and amenities are attractive to 'eco-conscious' upper-and middle-class tastes and lifestyles.…”

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Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research

Haarstad

Kjærås

Røe

et al. 2022

Dialogues in Human Geography

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The compact city has become part of the policy orthodoxy in dealing with climate change and other sustainability challenges, and scholars from a diverse set of disciplines have informed this policy through empirical research. In this paper, we argue that attuning research in this field to key perspectives and concepts in human geography and critical urban studies can help ‘diversify’ understandings of compact urbanism in ways that advance social and ecological justice. We show that the compact city has been conceived primarily through the lens of territorially bounded physical urban form, and thereby many of its social, political, and ecological implications are overlooked. Based on this critique, we propose a renewed agenda for compact urbanism that rearticulates it as a strategy for sustainable transformation by bridging socio-material and relational approaches and engaging the human geographical toolbox. Three entry points for this agenda are highlighted: (1) commoning the compact city; (2) metabolism of compact cities; and (3) antagonism in the compact city.

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Book Review: Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice

Cited by 7 publications

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How reliable – and (net) beneficial – is the green in green infrastructure

How reliable – and (net) beneficial – is the green in green infrastructure

Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research

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