The compact city approach has gained global impact as a planning approach for
sustainable development in areas with increasing urban population. Through densification …

Urban green space, such as parks, forests, green roofs, streams, and community gardens,
provides critical ecosystem services. Green space also promotes physical activity …

Scholars in urban political ecology, urban geography, and planning have suggested that
urban greening interventions can create elite enclaves of environmental privilege and green …

Greening cities, namely installing new parks, rooftop gardens or planting trees along the
streets, undoubtedly contributes to an increase in wellbeing and enhances the …

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban" greening" from an
environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative …

To date, little is known about the extent to which the creation of municipal green spaces over
an entire city addresses social or racial inequalities in the distribution of environmental …

Large-scale, sustainable urban development projects can transform surrounding
neighborhoods. Without precautionary policies, environmental amenities produced by these …

Urban transport policies are characterized by a wide range of impacts, and trade-offs and
conflicts among these impacts. The task of integrating and reconciling these impacts poses …

While sustainability and green urbanism have become buzzwords in urban policy circles,
too little analysis has focused on who gets to decide what green looks like. Many visions of …

Increasingly, greening in cities across the Global North is enmeshed in strategies for
attracting capital investment, raising the question: for whom is the future green city? Through …