Main entry:

Gould, Kenneth Alan, author.

Title & Author:

Green gentrification : urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice / Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
©2017

Description:

ix, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Series:

Routledge, equity, justice, and the sustainable city series

Notes:
"Earthscan from Routledge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Urban greening and social sustainability in a global context -- Conceptualizing green gentrification -- Prospect Park : from social hazard to environmental amenity -- Brooklyn Bridge Park : from abandoned docks to destination park -- The Gowanus Canal : from open sewer to the Venice of Brooklyn -- Contested spaces : Bush Terminal Park and Bushwick Inlet Park -- Making urban greening sustainable.

Summary:

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban 'greening' from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environmental conditions in neighborhoods, it generates green gentrification that pushes out the working-class, and people of color, and attracts white, wealthier in-migrants. Simply put, urban greening 'richens and whitens,' remaking the city for the sustainability class. Without equity-oriented public policy intervention, urban greening is negatively redistributive in global cities. This book argues that environmental injustice outcomes are not inevitable. Early public policy interventions aimed at neighborhood stabilization can create more just sustainability outcomes. It highlights the negative social consequences of green growth coalition efforts to green the global city, and suggests policy choices to address them. The book applies the lessons learned from green gentrification in Brooklyn to urban greening initiatives globally. It offers comparison with other greening global cities.

ISBN:

9781138920163 (hardback)
1138920169 (hardback)
9781138309135 (paperback)
1138309133 (paperback)
(ebook)
9781315687322

Subject:

Gentrification Environmental aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Environmental justice.
Urban ecology (Biology)
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) Aspect de l'environnement.
Urbanisme durable.
Écologie urbaine.
Justice environnementale.
urban environments.
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadtgrün

Added entries:

Lewis, Tammy L., author.
Routledge, equity, justice, and the sustainable city series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294927
Call No.: BIB 240856
Status: Available