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  1. Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’

    Jennifer Wolch, Jason Byrne, Joshua Newell · 2014 · Landscape and Urban Planning · 4,187 citations

    Urban green space, such as parks, forests, green roofs, streams, and community gardens, provides critical ecosystem services. Green space also promotes physical activity , psychological well-being, and the general public health of urban residents. This paper reviews the Anglo-American literature on urban green space, especially parks, and compares efforts to green US and Chinese cities. Most studies reveal that the distribution of such space often disproportionately benefits predominantly White and more affluent communities. Access to green space is therefore increasingly recognized as an environmental justice issue. Many US cities have implemented strategies to increase the supply of urban

  3. Gentrification: Culture and Capital in the Urban Core

    Sharon Zukin · 1987 · Annual Review of Sociology · 577 citations

    Gentrification, the conversion of socially marginal and working-class areas of the central city to middle-class residential use, reflects a movement, that began in the 1960s, of private-market investment capital into downtown districts of major urban centers. Related to a shift in corporate investment and a corresponding expansion of the urban service economy, gentrification was seen more immediately in architectural restoration of deteriorating housing and the clustering of new cultural amenities in the urban core. Research on gentrification initially concentrated on documenting its extent, tracing it as a process of neighborhood change, and speculating on its consequences for reversing tre

  4. Assessing green gentrification in historically disenfranchised neighborhoods: a longitudinal and spatial analysis of Barcelona

    Isabelle Anguelovski, James J. Connolly, Laia Masip, et al. · 2017 · Urban Geography · 495 citations

    To date, little is known about the extent to which the creation of new municipal green spaces over an entire city addresses social or racial inequalities in the distribution of environmental amenities - or whether such an agenda creates new socio-spatial inequities through processes of green gentrification. In this study, we evaluate the effects of creating 18 green spaces in socially vulnerable neighborhoods of Barcelona during the 1990s and early 2000s. Combining OLS and GWR analysis together with a spatial descriptive analysis, we examined the evolution over time of six socio-demographic gentrification indicators in the areas in proximity to green spaces in comparison with the entire dist

  5. Gentrification, Displacement, and the Role of Public Investment

    Miriam Zuk, Ariel H. Bierbaum, Karen Chapple, et al. · 2017 · Journal of Planning Literature · 435 citations

    Scholarly interest in the relationship between public investments and residential displacement dates back to the 1970s and the aftermath of displacement related to urban renewal. A new wave of scholarship examines the relationship of gentrification and displacement to public investment in transit infrastructure. Scholarship has generally conflated gentrification and displacement; however, this review argues for a clearer analytical distinction between the two. Although the displacement discussion in the United States began with the role of the public sector and now has returned to the same focus, it will be necessary to overcome methodological shortcomings to arrive at more definitive conclu

  6. Moving beyond Marcuse: Gentrification, displacement and the violence of un-homing

    Adam Elliott‐Cooper, Phil Hubbard, Loretta Lees · 2019 · Progress in Human Geography · 426 citations

    Displacement has become one of the most prominent themes in contemporary geographical debates, used to describe processes of dispossession and forced eviction at a diverse range of scales. Given its frequent deployment in studies describing the consequences of gentrification, this paper seeks to better define and conceptualise displacement as a process of un-homing, noting that while gentrification can prompt processes of eviction, expulsion and exclusion operating at different scales and speeds, it always ruptures the connection between people and place. On this basis – and recognising displacement as a form of violence – this paper concludes that the diverse scales and temporalities of dis

  7. Measuring Gentrification and Displacement in Greater London

    Rowland Atkinson · 2000 · Urban Studies · 336 citations

    The use of aggregate data to understand the linkages between gentrification and displacement has been considered problematic because of a lack of refinement or closeness to the nature of these processes as well as lacking the ability to 'track' displacees. This paper presents the results of pioneering work designed to overcome these problems by combining cross-sectional census data with spatially re-aggregated longitudinal census data (the Longitudinal Study). Using established approaches to measure gentrification, via proxy measures, and devising others for its potential displacees, the work demonstrates a displacement effect clustered around gentrified wards. Attempts are made to quantify

  8. From Toxic Sites to Parks as (Green) LULUs? New Challenges of Inequity, Privilege, Gentrification, and Exclusion for Urban Environmental Justice

    Isabelle Anguelovski · 2015 · Journal of Planning Literature · 326 citations

    As marginalized neighborhoods benefit from cleanup and environmental amenities often brought by municipal sustainability planning, recent trends of land revaluation, investments, and gentrification are posing a conundrum and paradox for environmental justice (EJ) activists. In this article, I examine the progression of the urban EJ agenda—from fighting contamination to mobilizing for environmental goods and resisting environmental gentrification—and analyze how the EJ scholarship has reflected upon the complexification of this agenda. I argue that locally unwanted land uses can be reconceptualized from contamination sources to new green amenities because of the displacement they seem to trig

  10. Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods

    Isabelle Anguelovski · 2015 · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 153 citations

    Abstract Local activists engaged in contemporary environmental justice struggles not only fight against traditional forms of hazardous locally unwanted land uses (LULUs), they also organize to make their neighborhoods livable and green. However, urban environmental justice activism is at a crossroads: as marginalized neighborhoods become revitalized, outside investors start to value them again and they themselves invest in green amenities. Yet vulnerable residents are now raising concerns about the risk of displacement from their neighborhoods in consequence of environmental gentrification processes. Their fear is linked to environmental amenities such as new parks or remodeled waterfronts,

  11. Gentrification, Displacement, and Tourism in Santa Cruz De Tenerife

    Luz Marina García Herrera, Neil Smith, Miguel Ángel Mejías Vera · 2007 · Urban Geography · 132 citations

    This paper analyzes the relationship between postwar urban redevelopment and the more recent transition that fused subsequent gentrification with tourism strategies in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). First, it examines the long endeavor of local government to foster neighborhood change in coalition with tourism and commercial development planning, and documents the intimate connection between gentrification and displacement. Second, it sheds light on the entwined effects of gentrification and tourism in the transformation of this urban outpost of the European Union.

  12. Unequal Displacement: Gentrification, Racial Stratification, and Residential Destinations in Philadelphia

    Jackelyn Hwang, Lei Ding · 2020 · American Journal of Sociology · 125 citations

    Drawing from sociological theory and research on residential mobility and neighborhood stratification, which primarily explain urban decline and persistent segregation, the authors propose a framework for examining residential displacement in the context of gentrification. Using this framework, this study assesses how gentrification shapes whether and where disadvantaged residents move, using a unique large-scale consumer credit database of residents in Philadelphia from 2002 to 2014. The authors find that gentrification’s consequences on the residential mobility patterns of financially disadvantaged residents are unequally distributed by the racial contexts in which gentrification is taking

  17. Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification

    Richard Kirk · 2024 · Urban Studies · 9 citations

    This article explores the territorial stigmatisation–gentrification nexus and how it is advanced by an intellectual pipeline between academics and policymakers in the USA. Despite much research revealing the pathologising narratives latent within displacement-inducing urban policies, little work has explicitly sought to underscore the influence of academic discourses in promoting these policies. Centring a triad of discourses surrounding concentrated disadvantage, social mix and neighbourhood effects – emergent namely from the academic fields of urban sociology, criminology, urban planning and urban economics – I provide an evidential linkage between academic discourse and displacement-causi

  21. Neighborhood Change and Gentrification Near Three Urban Trails

    Greg Lindsey, Yunlei Qi, Torsha Bhattacharya, et al. · 2021 · Findings · 1 citations

    This paper describes changes in indicators of gentrification in neighborhoods adjacent to recently opened multiuse trails in three US cities. We hypothesize changes are greater in abutting Census Block Groups (CBGs) than in CBGs further from the trails and use a case-control, pre-post design to report changes in gentrification status and related indicators three years after opening. We provide evidence of gentrification near each trail, but in two cases the majority of gentrifiable CBGs in treatment groups remained gentrifiable after three years. Rates and degree of gentrification associated with new trails differ depending on context.

  22. The cultural identity and urban values of the Wayku neighborhood in Lama

    Erick Paolo Pérez Núñez Erick Paolo Pérez Núñez, Katty Marilyn Alegría Lazo · 2024 · Gentrification

    Introduction: the majestic setting of the urban area surrounding public spaces has an urban planning value that is fundamental to the identity of a place and must be preserved in whole or in part. Objective: to characterize the cultural identity and urban planning values of the Wayku neighborhood in Lama. Method: a non-experimental, observational, descriptive, and cross-sectional study was conducted. A population of 8,883 inhabitants was defined in that area. The sample for the analytical study is composed of 211 community residents, both men and women. The study is based on accurate and rigorous information, in accordance with the standards of scientific and research methods. Results: 158 p

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