Challenging the financial capture of urban greening

García-Lamarca, Melissa; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Venner, Kayin

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34942-x

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“…For instance, transit-oriented developments might increase land values, attracting wealthier and White residents and displacing former inhabitants to other areas. Urban districts undergoing green gentrification have experienced this self-selection and replacement 52 , underscoring the need for equity and social justice in planning new transit-oriented developments.…”

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Quantifying systemic racial accessibility inequality in urban transit network

Li,

Zhang,

et al. 2023

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Urban transit networks are crucial for developing sustainable cities, yet uneven transit infrastructure distribution often leads to unequal access to urban resources. Prior studies utilize simple spatial metrics to measure accessibility, overlooking systemic inequality within transit networks and its real-world implications. Utilizing door-to-door travel information within a complex transit network, we probe racial inequality in transit-oriented accessibility to various urban resources and assess its impact on mobility behaviours. Our analysis reveals minority neighbourhoods endure consistently reduced transit-oriented accessibility to urban areas, job opportunities, and essential facilities by 15.2%, 37.3%, and 37.0%, respectively, compared to White-majority neighbourhoods. The uneven accessibility to urban areas exacerbates residential segregation by 32.1% relative to the equitable scenario. Regarding behavioural consequences, low accessibility subjects minority neighborhoods to constrained activity spaces, elevated unemployment risks, and extended travel distances to essential facilities. To inform potential mitigation policies, we conduct simulation experiments and discover that solely enhancing transit-oriented developments in minority-concentrated public housing districts can reduce current racial inequality by 8.8%. Our findings emphasize the imperative of prioritizing equity and inclusiveness in designing future sustainable transit systems.

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Quantifying systemic racial accessibility inequality in urban transit network

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Zhang,

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“…In other words, further discussion is needed to ascertain whether forms of labour that sustain infrastructures are themselves value-making, or whether they create the conditions for the production of value, particularly when occuring in spaces of liminality, informality, and illegality. This concern with value is present in recent work that interrogates the relations between repair and finance, where empirical attention has been brought to how finance reconfigures repair (Hilbrandt and Grafe, 2023), or how finance can sustain repair in climate changed geographies (Bigger and Millington, 2020; García-Lamarca et al, 2022; Webber et al, 2022). These contributions point out how infrastructural labour is enrolled in value-making processes, but also question whether forms of value-making are amenable with other ways of producing socio-environmental relations through infrastructure.…”

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Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Stokes

Coss‐Corzo

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure and its relationship to social, political, economic, and ecological processes. We contribute to this discussion by highlighting the emergence of a comparatively understudied yet crucial aspect within infrastructural geographies – infrastructural labour. We identify key theoretical anchors that guide contemporary analyses of infrastructural labour, which we query by focusing on five key areas of scholarly discussion. Building on these, we offer a working definition of infrastructural labour to help guide further engagement and point to questions meriting additional investigation.

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“…Despite the diverse benefits of UGI, their framings and justifications in policy‐making processes often follow a universally applied yet simplified definition of nature's contributions that in reality support a process of commodification of urban greening (Anguelovski & Corbera, 2022; García‐Lamarca, Anguelovski, & Venner, 2022; Neidig et al, 2022). UGI are increasingly presented as part of a universal social imaginary portraying urban nature as a hegemonic “one‐size‐fits‐all” approach with purely positive impacts across diverse geographical, cultural and economic urban contexts (Angelo, 2019b; Tozer et al, 2020; Wachsmuth & Angelo, 2018).…”

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“…A more holistic view on urban nature must also consider its “disvalues” (Lliso et al, 2022) or “trade‐offs” (Haase et al, 2017). For example, UGI may translate into displacement because of rising property prices, real estate speculation and tourism‐centred developments (García‐Lamarca, Anguelovski, Cole, et al, 2022; García‐Lamarca, Anguelovski, & Venner, 2022). This in turn typically results in both an economic loss, that is, instrumental disvalue, for those being priced‐out of their neighbourhoods and a diminishing sense of community and loss of place‐specific culture and local traditions, that is, relational disvalues (Lliso et al, 2022).…”

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Pluralizing environmental values for urban planning: How to uncover the diversity of imaginaries about socio‐natures from Vitoria‐Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain)

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Cities have pushed forward re‐naturing initiatives in local planning agendas. Discourses and rationales for such interventions tend to follow instrumental framings often narrowed down to the economic, health and ecological benefits of nature's contributions to people (NCP). Yet, diverse urban residents often connect to other socio‐nature framings that are associated with a plurality of values held for nature, including relational, intrinsic, and instrumental values. Focusing mostly on urban NCP, we used Q‐methodology to explore the perspectives and expressions of urban residents' diversity of values for urban greenery and broader human‐nature relationships. We explore the role of both instrumental and relational values, as well as certain potential disvalues of urban NCP. In light of the recent IPBES values assessment (IPBES, 2022) we follow a call for empirical studies and methodologies to explore, elicit and visibilize plural values about nature. We base our study in the Basque city of Vitoria‐Gasteiz, Spain (2012 European Green Capital) where we identify four distinct perspectives, all of which relate to a diversity of values about urban nature. Urban residents mostly perceive positive values for NCP as directly connected to their wellbeing. Yet, NCP that impact social bonds within their social community, expressed for instance through community‐related values, are perceived differently across the four perspectives. We conclude that planners and decision‐makers should pay scrutiny to include the four, partly differing, perspectives about the plural values of (urban) NCP in policymaking processes to assure just and inclusive outcomes. Here, intersectional and participatory approaches are needed beyond dominating framings of NCPs and related values, especially those that can take into account the needs and preferences of marginalized social groups. Special emphasis should be put on integrating relational values as nourishing such values through planning can play an important role in creating place‐rooted connections with local urban landscapes and the community. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Challenging the financial capture of urban greening

Cited by 16 publications

References 35 publications

Quantifying systemic racial accessibility inequality in urban transit network

Quantifying systemic racial accessibility inequality in urban transit network

Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Pluralizing environmental values for urban planning: How to uncover the diversity of imaginaries about socio‐natures from Vitoria‐Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain)

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