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Environmental Gentrification – Critical Sustainabilities

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Sustainabilities: Eco-oriented | Justice-oriented | Market-oriented”Environmental gentrification” is the process whereby the seemingly progressive discourse of urban sustainability is used to…

Sustainabilities: Eco-oriented | Justice-oriented | Market-oriented "Environmental gentrification” is the process whereby the seemingly progressive discourse of urban sustainability is used to drive up property values and displace low-income residents. The success of environmentalists’ push for “greener” practices, environmental justice activists’ demands to clean up long polluted and ignored neighborhoods, and the push for more community input has led to more efforts for ecologically responsible urban development. Everyone from grass-roots neighborhood activists and government technocrats to

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