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作者

Cedric Goossens;Stijn Oosterlynck;Lieve Bradt

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.41,Issue4,P.550-572

语言

英文

关键字

Displacement,environmental gentrification,environmental sustainability,green gentrification,social sustainability

作者单位

Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Ghent University , Ghent, Belgium ;Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp , Antwerp, Belgium

摘要

While urban greening initiatives are becoming increasing prevalent, some critical scholars have started to question the neutrality of this movement. Specifically, scholars have demonstrated that urban greening can inflate housing costs and as such give rise to processes of gentrification and displacement. This article examines processes of green gentrification in a particular neighborhood of Ghent (Belgium) that has been profoundly greened during the last two decades. Drawing on in-depth interviews with both gentrifying and longtime residents, we find that longtime residents are experiencing significant displacement pressures as a result of urban greening. However, rather than predominantly caused by soaring costs, displacement pressures seem to follow mainly from the political, social, and cultural changes encompassing greening initiatives. Consequently, we draw a more complex picture of green gentrification, one that has important implications for the way this process should be addressed. KEYWORDS: Displacementenvironmental gentrificationenvironmental sustainabilitygreen gentrificationsocial sustainability Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.