Spaces of transition spaces of tomorrow: Making a sustainable future in Southeast False Creek, Vancouver

Kear, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2007.01.005

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“…They may be defended as ways of having people commute less, and may involve "green" features, such as water recycling and green roofs. Political ecologists have noted contingent links between concepts of nature, Downloaded by [Chinese University of Hong Kong] at 22:54 25 December 2014 urban redevelopment projects, and affordability (Lees and Demeritt, 1998;Gibbs and Kreuger, 2007;Hagerman, 2007;Jonas and While, 2007;Kear, 2007;Krueger, 2007;Krueger and Savage, 2007). Typically, governments and their development corporations, private companies, and private-public partnerships working within the advanced liberalist political climates of the 1990s and 2000s favor projects that cater to middle-class consumers and clean and orderly environments.…”

Section: Urban Environmental Governancementioning

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“…Much of the recent literature has noted contingent links between urban environmental governance and problems of affordability and gentrification (Lees and Demeritt, 1998;Gibbs andKreuger, 2007, Hagerman, 2007;Jonas and While, 2007;Kear, 2007;Krueger, 2007;Krueger and Savage, 2007). However, little attention has been given to drawing on existing gentrification literature to provide a systematic understanding of how these processes are related.…”

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Political Ecologies of Gentrification

2009

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This article explores the possibilities for a political ecology of gentrification. Gentrification research, while firmly rooted in materialist social science, has not yet broadened its interests to consider ecological aspects of, or the role in gentrification of, discourses, social movements, and state policies of the environment. Understanding the political ecologies of gentrification involves recognizing the ways in which material relations and uneven resource consumption, concepts of nature, and the politics of urban environmental management affect gentrification processes. By synthesizing diverse literatures in urban studies, political ecology, urban environmental governance, consumption studies, and gentrification, this study argues that Vancouver, British Columbia represents a well-developed urban crucible for the new political ecologies of gentrification in North America. New developments in Vancouver increasingly contribute to gentrification using languages of sustainability and green consumption in a process of ecological gentrification. [

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Political Ecologies of Gentrification

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“…Such a community seeks a better quality of life for all its residents while maintaining nature's capacity to function over time by minimising waste, preventing pollution, promoting efficiency and developing local resources to revitalise the local economy (Minnesota SEDEPTF 1995, Hamstead andQuinn 2005). The literature on sustainable communities addresses both the characteristics of a sustainable community (Beatley 1995, Beatley and Manning 1997, Roseland 2000, Wint 2002) and the process by which a sustainable community is developed (Beatley 1995, Rees 1995, Campbell 1996, Kear 2007.…”

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What factors determine whether a community will choose the pathway to sustainable development in China?

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2010

Local Environment

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“…Although the original formulation of the sustainability fix was developed in the United Kingdom, the concept has since seen application elsewhere, including Vancouver (Kear, 2007;Quastel, 2009;Quastel et al, 2012;Rosol, 2013) and other cities (e.g. Krueger & Gibbs, 2007;Long, in press;Temenos & McCann, 2012).…”

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“…Numerous scholars (Kear, 2007;Peck, Siemiatycki, & Wyly, 2014;Quastel, 2009;Quastel et al, 2012) have identified Vancouver's sustainability policy as a fix designed to preserve economic growth while selectively pursuing environmental and social sustainability. In this section, I provide context for Vancouver's sustainability fix before illustrating the pertinence of urban agriculture to this discussion.…”

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Urban agriculture and the sustainability fix in Vancouver and Detroit

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2015

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Both Vancouver, British Columbia, and Detroit, Michigan, have significant and growing urban agriculture movements. In this article, I follow recent work investigating the connection between urban agriculture and neoliberalization to determine how these local governments have used urban agriculture in narratives of economic development to selectively pursue a sustainability fix. I analyze how different regimes of local governance have influenced the urban agriculture movements, leading to local, hybridized fixes that adapt to different material and discursive contexts in each place. I argue that in both cities, urban agriculture has radical potential as a grassroots response to economic and environmental injustice, but has also been enrolled as a device by the local state in which the primary goal of sustainability planning becomes enhanced economic competitiveness. Pursuing an agenda of food justice requires examining the larger context and effects of municipal involvement with food movements.

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Spaces of transition spaces of tomorrow: Making a sustainable future in Southeast False Creek, Vancouver

Cited by 35 publications

References 10 publications

Political Ecologies of Gentrification

Political Ecologies of Gentrification

What factors determine whether a community will choose the pathway to sustainable development in China?

Urban agriculture and the sustainability fix in Vancouver and Detroit

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