EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF GREEN DISPLACEMENT

Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability has documented outcomes of green infrastructure projects in historically marginalized communities that are not developed with a community-lead or initiated process. They call these spaces, GREENLULUS, or green locally unwanted land uses.

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Their 5-year quantitative study, Green Trajectories, they look at the effects of greening and equity in 50 global cities over a 25 years span.

Kenneth Lewis and Tammy Gould study green gentrification in 5 projects in New York City.

Lewis and Gould's main conclusion is that sequencing matters. Equity policies and implementation must happen in advance of construction to prevent extreme displacement.

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We acknowledge the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi and Eno as the traditional stewards of Durham, and pay our respects to elders past, present, and future.

Thank you to Enterprise Community Partners and Triangle Community Foundation for supporting our Collaborative Community Placekeeping and Equitable Development Workshops.