Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The equity deficit -- Becoming just green enough -- Aiming for justice -- Beyond Greenpoint -- Organization of the book -- References -- PART I: Just green enough in transition -- 1. Just green enough: Contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn -- Introduction -- The context -- Methods -- Environmental gentrification -- Gentrification in crisis? -- "Greening" Greenpoint -- Contested, co-opted, or ignored? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2. A just enough green? Industrial gentrification and competing socio-natures in Greenpoint, Brooklyn -- Dubai on the East River -- Industrial gentrification -- Competing socio-natures -- Conclusion - Ongoing lessons from Greenpoint -- Notes -- References -- 3. Making just green enough advocacy resilient: Diverse economies, ecosystem engineers and livelihood strategies for low-carbon futures -- Introduction -- Ecological gentrification: Genealogy of an idea -- Just green enough: A response rooted in contradictions and dualisms -- Our urban futures: Diverse economies and ecologies -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Just transition and Just Green Enough: Climate justice, economic development and community resilience -- Introduction -- Beyond green gentrification -- Post-Sandy contexts -- Industrial retention policy and spectacles of industry -- Operationalizing a just transition -- Conclusion -- References -- PART II: Green displacements and community identity -- 5. Greening the waterfront? Submerging history, finding risk -- New Westminster -- Industrial New Westminster -- Disconnecting from history or connecting to the river? -- Working (class) knowledge of the river -- Risk and certainty -- References.

6. Alternative food and gentrification: Farmers' markets, community gardens and the transformation of urban neighborhoods -- Introduction -- Alternative food spaces, white privilege and green gentrification -- Methods -- Farmers' markets and community gardens: A brief history -- San Diego's urban transformation and the alternative food landscape -- The production of the alternative food landscape: Key actors -- Conclusion: Gentrification or food justice? -- Note -- References -- 7. The production of green: Gentrification and social change -- Gowanus in context -- A brief history of the canal -- Neighborhood changes -- Demographic shifts, gentrification, and displacement -- Green economic development -- Climate change and -- Discussion -- References -- PART III: State-led environmental gentrification -- 8. Environmental gentrification in metropolitan Seoul: The case of greenbelt deregulation and development at Misa Riverside City -- Introduction -- Gentrification locally situated -- Spatiotemporal context -- Misa Riverside City: Environmental gentrification through developmental neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. Displacement as disaster relief: Environmental gentrification and state informality in developing Chennai -- The floods: What happened -- Slums, and slums along waterbodies -- Development and state informality-induced displacement -- Development + disaster -- The Surya Nagar story: An illustration -- Notes -- References -- 10. Fixing sustainability: Social contestation and re-regulation in Vancouver's housing system -- Introduction -- Rethinking the fix -- Vancouver's sustainable housing dilemma -- Reading the conjuncture -- Responding to gentrification -- Towards re-regulation -- Speculative investment -- Assessing a new hegemony -- References -- PART IV: Mobilizing and planning for just, green futures.

11. Mobilizing community identity to imagine just green enough futures: A Chicago case study -- Working class identity and industrial pride in a "port of entry" area -- Counter-discourses: De-naturalizing gentrification -- Conclusions: Contested just green enough futures -- References -- 12. Bring on the yuppies and the guppies! Green gentrification, environmental justice, and the politics of place in Frogtown, L.A. -- Introduction -- Greening Frogtown: Deindustrialization, restoration, and gentrification -- Community activism and place-based identity: Re-politicizing environmental change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13. The contested future of Philadelphia's Reading Viaduct: Blight, neighborhood amenity, or global attraction? -- Introduction -- A proposal for an elevated linear park in Philadelphia -- Voices of opposition -- From idea to endorsed plan -- Resistance to the rail park gains traction -- The NID is defeated -- Conclusion -- References -- 14. Informal urban green space as anti-gentrification strategy? -- Introduction -- Political ecology(ies) of just urban greenspace -- Methods: Assessing informal greenspace distribution and accessibility -- Findings: Informal greenspace distribution in Australia and Japan -- Problems and possibilities in IGS provision and use: Insights from Japan -- Conclusion: Implications for policy, planning and geography? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 15. Patient capital and reframing value: Making New Urbanism Just Green Enough -- Sustainable development as eco-gentrification? The case of New Urbanism -- The case for social equity -- Analyzing social equity in New Urbanism -- The exclusion and marginalization of affordable housing -- Making space for equity -- Conclusion: Planning for equity from the start -- References -- Index.

Just Green Enough is a theoretically rigorous, practical, global and accessible volume exploring, through varied case studies, the complexities of environmental improvement in an era of gentrification as global urban policy. It concludes by suggesting new ways to understand what "green" looks like and ways to achieve it without displacement.

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