ISBN:
9781452950686
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white)
DDC:
307.760944361
Keywords:
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Grünanlage
;
Stadtplanung
;
Einwanderer
;
Politisches Handeln
;
Stadtökologie
;
Urban ecology (Sociology)
;
Urban parks Social aspects
;
Sustainable urban development
;
City planning Environmental aspects
;
Environmentalism Political aspects
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
Immigrants Political activity
;
Paris
;
Jardins d'Éole
;
Paris (France) Environmental conditions
;
Paris (France) Ethnic relations
;
Paris (France) Politics and government
Abstract:
On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d'Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the mayor's vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers. Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research with northeast Paris residents, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design, Andrew Newman argues that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has been appropriated by forces of redevelopment and gentrification in Paris and beyond.
Note:
"A Quadrant book"
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5749/minnesota/9780816689620.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816689620.001.0001
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