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Informal urban green space as anti-gentrification strategy?

, 2023
Access to urban greenspace is vital for urban residents’ wellbeing. Yet investment in new parks can trigger housing price inflation through a process termed environmental gentrification.
Jason A. Byrne, Christoph Rupprecht
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy, Jennifer Blake, Meghna Nair, Pamela Stephens   +3 more
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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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Produção capitalista do espaço e meio ambiente: ativismo urbano-ambiental e gentrificação verde no Brasil

Cadernos Metrópole
Resumo Um novo fato urbano tem ganhado terreno em diversas cidades do planeta: trata-se do fenômeno da gentrificação verde. O objetivo deste artigo é testar a aplicação do conceito em três cidades brasileiras: Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo ...
Pedro Henrique Campello Torres, Mariana Motta Vivian, Taísa de Oliveira Amendola Sanches   +2 more
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The Factors and Strategies of Green Gentrification

Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology
It is clear that urban green spaces provide numerous health, social, and ecological benefits. However, without adequate preventative measures in place, the environmental benefits provided by these projects such as parks, trails, and better accessibility often lead to a rise in property values and significantly higher housing expenses contributing to ...
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HOUSING RETROFIT AND THE JUST TRANSITION IN THE METROPOLIS: Governance, Redistribution, and Inequality in London and Barcelona

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato, Marc Martí‐Costa, Cecilia Conde López   +2 more
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Inequalities and Injustices of Urban Green Regeneration: Applying the Conflict Analysis Perspective

Land
Green regeneration has become one of the most powerful strategies for improving the quality of life in cities, supporting climate change adaptation, and reducing the carbon footprints of cities.
Annegret Haase
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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

USING Google Street View to Examine Green Gentrification: A Case Study in Chile

, 2019
When an influx of green amenities is added to an urban area, it can lead to a process known as “green gentrification”, a form of social inequality in which a neighborhood may become whiter and wealthier, leaving the poorer community members displaced ...
Sanchez, Melinda
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