Do green neighbourhoods promote urban health justice?
Isabelle Anguelovski, Helen Cole, James Connolly, Margarita Triguero-Mas
The Lancet, Public Health. Vol 3, No. 6, e270 June 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30096-3
For the past 30 years, a search for social and health justice has shaped many cities in North America and Europe. Residents of these cities have mobilised to address the effects of neighbourhood disinvestment, pollution, harmful land uses, and low-quality green spaces on health. In cities such as Leipzig or Barcelona, these movements have transformed neighbourhoods. However, while green amenities are important selling points for attracting high-income populations, the resulting increased property values shape a new conundrum, embodied in the exclusion and displacement associated with so-called green gentrification