Green gentrification in European and North American cities

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…

• BS
  Banco Santander
• MD
  Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

  Award: CEX2019-000940-M
• MD
  Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

  Awards: PID2019-106341GB-I00, GA678034, CEX2019-000940-M, PID2019, CEX2019, 000940-M
• ER
  European Regional Development Fund