Landscape of discontent : urban sustainability in immigrant Paris
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Landscape of discontent : urban sustainability in immigrant Paris
（A Quadrant book）
University of Minnesota Press, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index
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Description
On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d'Eole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor's vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers.
Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research with northeast Paris residents, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design, Andrew Newman argues that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has been appropriated by forces of redevelopment and gentrification in Paris and beyond. France's turbulent political environment also provides Newman with powerful new insights into the ways in which multiethnic coalitions can emerge even amid overt racism and Islamophobia in the struggle for more just cities and more inclusive societies.
A tale of multidimensional political efforts, Landscape of Discontent cuts through the rhetoric of green cities to reveal the promise that environmentalism holds for urban communities anywhere.
Table of Contents
Contents
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Introduction
1. Poets and Locomotives: Ecology and Politics on the Margins of Paris
2. Space, Style, and Grassroots Strategy in the Eole Mobilization
3. Cultivating the Republic? Parks, Gardens, and Youth
4. The End(s) of Urban Ecology in the Global City
5. To Watch and Be Watched: Urban Design, Vigilance, and Contested Streets
6. The Political Life of Small Urban Spaces
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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