Landscapes of Gentrification. Infrastructures, conflicts and imaginaries of urban nature

The workshop aims to create a space to critically engage with the notion of “green gentrification” and its multiple applications in contemporary urban environments.
In recent years, both critical scholars and activists have increasingly denounced the deeply unequal – albeit often unintended - impacts of sustainability planning and various greening infrastructures. At the same time, the interactions between human and non-human actors – such as trees, plants, waterways, but also animals – increasingly mediate and participate in the shaping of shifting spatial relations, often characterized by stark inequalities. In this light, competing imaginaries of “urban nature” are mobilized to support both aggressive processes of gentrification and real estate speculation, and various grassroots strategies of resistance. However, exclusionary dynamics and gentrification processes are not homogeneous, but are rather actualized under different conditions, resulting in specific material and landscape changes.
Through the presentation of different case studies, the workshop proposes to collectively reflect on the stakes of green gentrification, across multiple geographies and in a rapidly changing political climate. We seek to bring together interdisciplinary research, to critically examine the interplay between planning strategies, urban green aesthetics and issues of social and environmental justice.

The workshop will host two keynote lectures and a number of presentations regarding case studies and ongoing researches.

Keynote lectures:
Isabelle Anguelovski – BCNUEJ, UAB.
Title: “Connecting Climate and Housing Justice: Experiences from North America and Europe”
Jasmijn Rana - Leiden University
Title: “From city park to national park: ethnoracial inequalities in outdoor recreation.”

You can register to participate to the workshop at this link:

• https://forms.office.com/e/4BreVPW9MM

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