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Urban Heat Transition in Berlin: Corporate Strategies, Political Conflicts, and Just Solutions
Urban Planning, 2023 In the field of urban climate policy, heat production and demand are key sectors for achieving a sustainable city. Heat production has to shift from fossil to renewable energies, and the heat demand of most buildings has to be reduced significantly via ...
Hendrik Sander, Sören Weißermel
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Injustice in Urban Greening and Green Gentrification
, 2023 AbstractLarge cities are increasingly using urban greening, nature-centered projects, and green infrastructure to address socio-environmental and health challenges and harness widespread benefits for citizens, industries, and investors, while protecting existing urban ecosystems, resources, environmentally-sensitive areas, and built infrastructure ...
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Développement Durable et Territoires, 2023 The vegetated spaces located around Western cities (agricultural land, wooded areas, wetlands, abandoned spaces or recreated nature), are now integrated into metropolitan policies for the management and preservation of nature and landscapes.
Fabien Roussel
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 The design and deployment of green amenities is a way to tackle cities' socio-environmental problems in the quest for urban sustainability. In this study, we undertake a systematic review of research published in international peer-reviewed journals that
Daniele Tubino de Souza +3 more
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Are LEED-ND developments catalysts of neighborhood gentrification?
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2020 LEED v4 for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) is a neighborhood sustainability assessment tool developed through a collaborative effort between the United States Green Building Council, the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Natural Resources ...
Eric M. Benson, Bradley Bereitschaft
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Three Histories of Greening and Whiteness in American Cities
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 How has urban greening related to the degree of whiteness in neighborhoods? The answer to this question provides an essential “historical diagnostic” that can be used to develop an approach to urban ecology which integrates racial and ethnic change into ...
James J. T. Connolly +3 more
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Green Gentrification in Lisbon (Portugal): A Study about Marvila’s Riverfront
European Journal of GeographyLisbon is considered a green European city. However, some greening projects have generated extra rent and increased the prices of new urban developments, especially along the Tagus River, indicating a possible green gentrification process.
Wendel Henrique Baumgartner
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Environmental Justice in Accessibility to Green Infrastructure in Two European Cities
Land, 2018 Although it is well-established that urban green infrastructure is essential to improve the population’s wellbeing, in many developed countries, the availability of green spaces is limited or its distribution around the city is uneven.
Catarina de Sousa Silva +3 more
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Which characteristics represent the gentrification affected by parks? A study case in Nanjing, China
Ecological IndicatorsThe provision of newly constructed parks in urban areas offers numerous benefits to residents but also gives rise to the phenomenon of green gentrification.
Ying Huang +3 more
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Resilience Gentrification: Environmental Privilege in an Age of Coastal Climate Disasters
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 Climate change is exacerbating storms at the same time that humans are increasingly settling in areas most affected by such storms. In theory, post-disaster recovery offers opportunities to rebuild for sustainable development.
Kenneth A. Gould +3 more
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