Section outline

    • In this class, we will focus on the concept of green/environmental gentrification and begin to explore the ways in which it manifests itself in Paris.


    • Required reading: 

    • Pearsall, Hamil (2018), ‘New directions in urban environmental/green gentrification research’, in Lees, Loretta (ed.), Handbook of Gentrification Studies, Edward Elgar, pp.329-345 File
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    • Recommended:

      •  Rice, Jennifer L., Daniel Aldana Cohen, Joshua Long and Jason R. Jurjevich (2019), ‘Contradictions of the climate-friendly city: new perspectives on eco-gentrification and housing justice’, in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12740
      • Aldana Cohen, Daniel (2016), “Petro Gotham, People’s Gotham”, in Solnit, R. nd J. Jelly-Shapiro (eds.), Nonstop Metropolis: A New York Atlas, University of California Press, pp.46-55.
      • Anguelovski, Isabelle & James J.T. Connolly (eds.) (2022), The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe, London: Routledge
      • Anguelovski, Isabelle (2017), “Retracted: Urban Greening as the Ultimate Urban Environmental Justice Tragedy?”, in Planning Theory, 16(1).
      • Checker, Melissa (2011), “Wiped Out by the ‘Greenwave’: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability,” in City & Society, 23(2).
      • Clerval, Anne (2013), Paris sans le peuple, La Découverte.
      • Hodson, Mike, and Simon Marvin (2010), “Urbanism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Urbanism or Premium Ecological Enclaves?”, in City, 14(3), pp. 298-313.
      • Wacksmuth, David, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Hillary Angelo (2016), “Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability”, in Nature, 536, pp.391-393.

    • paris-ville-free File
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