Just Green Enough Urban Development and Environmental Gentrification

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Foreword

Introduction

Just Green Enough in Transition

1. Just Green Enough: Contesting Environmental Gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Winifred Curran and Trina Hamilton

2. A just enough green? Industrial gentrification and competing socionatures in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Winifred Curran and Trina Hamilton

3. Making Just Green Enough advocacy resilient: Diverse economies, ecosystem engineers and livelihood strategies for low-carbon futures

Sarah Dooling

4. Just Transition and Just-Green-Enough: Climate justice, economic development and community resilience

Julie Sze and Elizabeth Yeampierre

　

Green Displacements and Community Identity

5. Greening the waterfront? Submerging history, finding risk

Pamela Stern and Peter V Hall

6. Alternative food and gentrification: Farmers’ markets, community gardens and the transformation of urban neighborhoods

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco

7. The production of green: Gentrification and social change　

Jessica Ty Miller

　

State-led Environmental Gentrification

8. Environmental gentrification in Metropolitan Seoul: The case of greenbelt deregulation and development at Misa Riverside City

Jay E. Bowen

9. Displacement as disaster relief: Environmental gentrification and state informality in developing Chennai

Priti Narayan

10. Fixing sustainability: Social contestation and re-regulation in Vancouver’s housing system

Noah Quastel

　

Mobilizing and Planning for Just, Green Futures

11. Mobilizing community identity to imagine just green enough futures: A Chicago case study

Leslie Kern

12. Bring on the Yuppies and the Guppies! Green gentrification, environmental justice, and the politics of place in Frogtown, L.A.

Esther Kim

13. The contested future of Philadelphia’s Reading Viaduct: Blight, neighborhood amenity, or global attraction?

Hamil Pearsall

14. Informal urban green space as anti-gentrification strategy?

Christoph D. D. Rupprecht and Jason A. Byrne

15. Patient Capital and Reframing Value: Making New Urbanism Just Green Enough

                    Dan Trudeau

Biography

Winifred Curran is an Associate Professor of Geography at DePaul University, USA.

Trina Hamilton is an Associate Professor of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), USA.

"Hamilton and Curran’s concept of ‘Just Green Enough’ has become a rallying cry for academics and activists trying to decouple environmental clean-up from high-end residential and commercial development. The cases in this timely and excellent book illuminate this goal, offering us hope for a transition toward more just sustainabilities." — Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University

"This is an essential book demonstrating the need for a new ecological, political, and social imagination to place interactional, reparative, distributional, and participative justice at the center of green city planning. Only through transformative green planning and creative lasting alliances will green interventions be public goods rather than environmental privileges." — Isabelle Anguelovski, ICREA Research Professor and Director, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

"In 2012, Curran and Hamilton came up with ‘Just Green Enough,’ a welcome vision for environmentally-minded urban development that foregrounded social justice and equity. Six years later, the concept’s originators bring us this provocative look at the pitfalls and promises of JGE strategies, offering both sobering assessments and hopeful ways forward." — Melissa Checker, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Psychology, the CUNY Graduate Center

"As cities across the world are ‘going green’ through revitalization projects geared toward resilience and sustainability, they struggle with a major challenge: avoiding displacement and disenfranchisement associated with gentrification. This refreshing, provocative volume brings together leading scholars who dare to move beyond critique, by exploring and proposing strategies and solutions." — Ryan Holifield, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"Just Green Enough brings passion, imagination, along with some redemption to the sustainable development paradox. With a global reach, the book’s contributors eruditely reveal important insights and examples of diverse social relations that engender positive urban environmental change. A must read for students concerned with progressive social change." — Robert Krueger, Director, Environmental and Sustainability Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute