Green gentrification in European and North American cities

Isabelle Anguelovski (), James J. T. Connolly, Helen Cole, Melissa Garcia-Lamarca, Margarita Triguero-Mas, Francesc Baró, Nicholas Martin, David Conesa, Galia Shokry, Carmen Pérez Pulgar, Lucia Argüelles Ramos, Austin Matheney, Elsa Gallez, Emilia Oscilowicz, Jésua López Máñez, Blanca Sarzo, Miguel Angel Beltrán and Joaquin Martinez Minaya
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Isabelle Anguelovski: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
James J. T. Connolly: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Helen Cole: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Melissa Garcia-Lamarca: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Margarita Triguero-Mas: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Francesc Baró: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Nicholas Martin: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
David Conesa: University of Valencia
Galia Shokry: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Carmen Pérez Pulgar: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Lucia Argüelles Ramos: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Austin Matheney: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Elsa Gallez: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Emilia Oscilowicz: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jésua López Máñez: University of Vàlencia
Blanca Sarzo: University of Valencia
Miguel Angel Beltrán: Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana
Joaquin Martinez Minaya: Universitat Politècnica de València

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract Although urban greening is universally recognized as an essential part of sustainable and climate-responsive cities, a growing literature on green gentrification argues that new green infrastructure, and greenspace in particular, can contribute to gentrification, thus creating social and racial inequalities in access to the benefits of greenspace and further environmental and climate injustice. In response to limited quantitative evidence documenting the temporal relationship between new greenspaces and gentrification across entire cities, let alone across various international contexts, we employ a spatially weighted Bayesian model to test the green gentrification hypothesis across 28 cities in 9 countries in North America and Europe. Here we show a strong positive and relevant relationship for at least one decade between greening in the 1990s–2000s and gentrification that occurred between 2000–2016 in 17 of the 28 cities. Our results also determine whether greening plays a “lead”, “integrated”, or “subsidiary” role in explaining gentrification.

Date: 2022
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