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Evaluating Green Gentrification in London

open access: yesJournal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences
In this paper, we discuss the green land in the cities as a potential solution to the greenhouse effect. By discussion on this important issue, the governments are able to understand the relationship between societies and green land, thus improving urban development.
openaire   +1 more source

EVICT, NEGLECT, OR INVEST? Community Power and the Politics of Urban Informality Governance in Jakarta

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
wiley   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

The Production of Green: Gentrification and Social Change

open access: yes, 2017
In public planning forums, this chapter focuses on the social dimensions of green gentrification stemming from redevelopment interest and environmental clean up efforts along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York.
Miller, Jessica
core   +1 more source

Wealth and wildlife in cities: How economic and demographic drivers influence global urban environmental injustice

open access: yesPeople and Nature
Urban biodiversity is known to enhance the quality of life of urban dwellers, but its benefits are not equitably shared by the urban population. The positive correlation between urban biodiversity and socio‐economic status within cities (i.e.
Irene Regaiolo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering Urban Green Space (Dis)Investment Through Cultural Ecosystem Service Potential: A Case Study of Szeged, Hungary

open access: yesLand
Climate change and rapid urbanization are underscoring the need for urban green spaces that offer a wide range of ecosystem services, which can provide irreplaceable benefits to residents.
Nándor Zoltán Tráser   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is land‐use deregulation enough to deliver housing?: The case of institutional frictions in India

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply in the presence of additional institutional frictions, such as ill‐defined property rights. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put limits on individual ownership of private vacant land in the largest cities, were repealed during the 2000s.
Arnab Dutta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expulsive Greening: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Green Gentrification in The Resilience Paradigm, Brooklyn 2010–2020

open access: yes, 2022
Background: This project analyzes the spatial coincidence between gentrification typologies and urban greening in Brooklyn, New York from 2010 to 2020. Assets formed under the NYC Green Infrastructure Program were chosen as a proxy for urban greening to ...
Jimenez, Rose
core  

Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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