Ordinary and extraordinary greening : Tensions amidst Saint-Henri, Montréal’s development boom
García-Lamarca, Melissa LU
and Vansintjan, Aaron
(2021)
p.187-199
- Abstract
The neighborhood of Sant-Henri in Montréal’s Southwest borough has long been associated with poverty, marginality and squalor. But this is rapidly changing as both extraordinary, large-scale green infrastructures and small-scale, more ordinary forms of greening are expanding across the neighborhood, amidst private luxury housing development and rising rents. Both extraordinary and ordinary greening are also connected to Saint-Henri’s transforming foodscape, where new gourmet restaurants and up-scale cafés, a renovated farmers’ market and renovated grocery stores are displacing the diners, dépanneurs (corner stores) and other food shops long frequented by working-class residents. What happens when, all at once, a community faces food... (More)
The neighborhood of Sant-Henri in Montréal’s Southwest borough has long been associated with poverty, marginality and squalor. But this is rapidly changing as both extraordinary, large-scale green infrastructures and small-scale, more ordinary forms of greening are expanding across the neighborhood, amidst private luxury housing development and rising rents. Both extraordinary and ordinary greening are also connected to Saint-Henri’s transforming foodscape, where new gourmet restaurants and up-scale cafés, a renovated farmers’ market and renovated grocery stores are displacing the diners, dépanneurs (corner stores) and other food shops long frequented by working-class residents. What happens when, all at once, a community faces food gentrification, small-scale greening projects and large-scale green infrastructure? This chapter explores the greening-related tensions and inequities that are unfolding in Saint Henri, where new multi-scalar greening projects and foodscapes are stitching together a post-industrial landscape to create new-and often exclusionary-forms of urban living. At the intersection of these tensions, local community groups have resisted and fought for alternative forms of development on multiple scales.
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- author
- García-Lamarca, Melissa
LU
and Vansintjan, Aaron
- publishing date
- 2021-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- de-industrialization, displacement, food gentrification, green gentrification, green space, income inequalities, new green infrastructure, real estate development boom, the inequalities at stake: insufficient affordable housing, the urban development pattern of the city and neighborhood: recent fast-growing, the urban greening of the neighborhood: canal decontamination and regeneration
- host publication
- The Green City and Social Injustice : 21 Tales from North America and Europe - 21 Tales from North America and Europe
- editor
- Anguelovski, Isabelle and Connolly, James J. T.
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85137536583
- ISBN
- 9781003183273
- 9781032024134
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003183273-18
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Isabelle Anguelovski and James J. T. Connolly.
- id
- 2b99c7d1-0705-4214-92f3-105d91739c4c
- date added to LUP
- 2024-02-06 13:50:35
- date last changed
- 2024-05-21 00:14:13
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keywords = {{de-industrialization; displacement; food gentrification; green gentrification; green space; income inequalities; new green infrastructure; real estate development boom; the inequalities at stake: insufficient affordable housing; the urban development pattern of the city and neighborhood: recent fast-growing; the urban greening of the neighborhood: canal decontamination and regeneration}},
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