Environmental Discourse and Economic Growth in the Greening of Postindustrial Cities

McKendry, Corina

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“…What has evolved during urban development so far points toward a multi-dimensional consideration into urban sustainability. The so-called "simple" perception of, for example, a successful green city, indeed represents "complexity" for decision makers to cope with a narrow or a sectoral perspective to thematize a city as green [39,43,50,126]. Nevertheless, the integration of green-smart aspects allows a holistic perspective for sustainable urban development through for example the use of "sustainability indicators" to assess the performance of such development.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Finally, the survey distributed 300 questionnaires at all six locations, while 243 completed responses were collected, which constituted a response rate of 81%. The distribution of number of collected questionnaires in each district included: Central and Western District (40), Kwun Tong (42), Sham Shui Po (42), Yau Tsim Mong (39), Shatin (37) and Yuen Long (43).…”

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“…The compatibility of a top-down assigned theme and urban development could sometimes be questioned. A pure focus on economic sustainability may override other important aspects such as socio-cultural concern and quality of local residents [3,[40][41][42][43]. The selection of greenness and smartness tends to be more appropriate to match the expectation of sustainable development goals of a city [19,43].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Growing literature on green cities pointed to holistic approaches to urban development that link non-economic aspects (e.g., environmental, health, learning, and community building) with the economic aspects of urban development [39,42,43,[49][50][51]. Over the years, there were many philosophical dialogues and empirical studies that contributed to the theory and practice of green city development, and subsequently evolved paradigms such as eco-, resilient and sustainable city (e.g., [34,36,47,[52][53][54]).…”

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“…Angelidou [15] identified four areas requiring comparative studies between: (1) national and local strategies of urban development; (2) urban development stages of new and existing cities; (3) hard and soft infrastructure oriented strategies [33,43,50,106]; and (4) economic sector-based and geographically based reference areas. Caragliu [20] suggested six important criteria for building a smart city, which indicated that it does not rely only on the persuasive use of ICT but on an all-round consideration of urban sustainability.…”

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Knowledge-Perception Bridge of Green-Smart Integration of Cities: An Empirical Study of Hong Kong

Chan

Marafa

2018

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Cities often thematize themselves as attractive and sustainable places by adopting some emerging concepts of urban development. Green city and smart city are two of these themes that contain distinctive but often overlapping attributes. These green and smart city attributes, as proposed in previous studies, are tested with a sample of Hong Kong residents (n = 243). This paper identifies the factors in a combined green-smart theme of Hong Kong based on local perception. The empirical results confirm that local residents believe Hong Kong is performing smarter than greener. The findings from factor analysis reveal a combined green-smart structure consisting of one mixed green-smart infrastructural elements and six other specific factors about greenness or smartness. Regression also builds up two models showing the locally-perceived determinants of a successful green city and smart city for Hong Kong, respectively. This study reflects a complexity-simplicity paradox of how decision makers should respond to a knowledge-perception gap. The result further confirms that human factor, including the engagement and the quality of societal actors, is the key to successful green and smart urban development.

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Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

Wansleben,

Neumann

2023

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Urban studies have shown that the affordances, constraints and forms of urban climate change mitigation often emerge from ‘entrepreneurial’ modes of governance that have developed in post-Fordist cities. However, comparative research stresses that concepts focused on the growing power of private capital under neoliberalisation are inadequate to comprehend developments in German cities. In this article, we argue that municipally owned corporations occupy critical positions in climate change mitigation governance. While municipal ownership of utilities in principle increases local governance capacities, municipally owned corporations’ roles are shaped by fiscal relations and asymmetric organisational capacities between ‘agents’ and ‘principals’. In the case of Cologne, we show that the city has failed to leverage ownership over its public energy utility to decarbonise energy provision. Managers were able to assert corporate interests in the face of fragmented political actors and entrenched fiscal crisis. In this context of political incapacity and fragmentation, environmental social movements become important actors for translating widely shared decarbonisation objectives into concrete political demands towards municipally owned corporations.

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What Shapes Uneven Access to Urban Amenities? Thick Injustice and the Legacy of Racial Discrimination in Denver’s Parks

Rigolon

Németh

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Like other urban amenities, parks are unevenly distributed throughout cities, with advantaged groups enjoying better access to better parks than more disadvantaged residents. Although such inequities are well documented, we know less about the mechanisms that shape them. We conduct a case study in Denver that includes a GIS analysis and interviews with local planners and historians. We find that while park funding systems have tended to steer investments into richer neighborhoods, racially discriminatory land use and housing policies that shape where low-income people of color can live have produced some of the deepest and most persistent inequities in access to parks. Recent improvements in park access for low-income people of color are based less on equity-oriented efforts by public agencies and more on residential location choices of affluent white residents.

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Environmental Discourse and Economic Growth in the Greening of Postindustrial Cities

Cited by 3 publications

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Knowledge-Perception Bridge of Green-Smart Integration of Cities: An Empirical Study of Hong Kong

Knowledge-Perception Bridge of Green-Smart Integration of Cities: An Empirical Study of Hong Kong

Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

What Shapes Uneven Access to Urban Amenities? Thick Injustice and the Legacy of Racial Discrimination in Denver’s Parks

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