Creating greener pastures: Environmental gentrification and displacement in Ghent (Belgium)

In recent decades both city planners and citizens are increasingly promoting greening strategies as a way to effectively respond to issues of urban liveability, public health, and climate change. Greening initiatives include, inter alia, the promotion of community gardens, parks, forests, recycling programs, street closures, street trees, sustainable housing, sustainable transportation, and urban farming. This movement is particularly promising given that in 2014, 53,6% of the global population lived in urban areas, a figure that is set to rise to 60,0% by 2030. In their recently published boo... Mehr ...