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The sustainability myth : environmental gentrification and the politics of justice / Melissa Checker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Checker, Melissa, author.
- Series:
- NYU scholarship online.
- NYU scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable urban development.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Environmental justice.
- Gentrification.
- City planning--Environmental aspects.
- City planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2020].
- Summary:
- Are today's sustainable cities built on their own undoing? This book uncovers the hidden costs of sustainable policies and practices in an era of hyper-gentrification. From state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, LEED-certified buildings, bike lanes, and organic shops and restaurants, industrial waterfronts are transforming into eco-friendly urban oases. But how sustainable is this green wave? Will it lift all boats? In New York City, Melissa Checker finds that sustainable initiatives have fostered resource-intensive, high-end development in some areas and left others overburdened with polluting facilities and under-protected from climate change. Checker weaves together ethnographic and historic detail to tell the story of local activists who struggle to improve the environmental health of their neighborhoods while maintaining their affordability.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Environmental Gentrification
- 1. Sustainability and the City
- 2. Wiped Out by the Green Wave
- 3. “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”
- 4. Brown Spots on the Apple
- Part II: The Politics of Sacrifice
- 5. “Democracy Has Left the Building”
- 6. “This Crosses Party Lines All over the Place”
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 20, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-5924-9
- OCLC:
- 1153338687
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