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Just green enough: contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Winifred Curran, Trina Hamilton

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Coins 'just green enough' by showing how conventional green-amenity planning triggers environmental gentrification and displacement of working-class residents; argues greening policy must be deliberately constrained to avoid the speculative development it otherwise unleashes.

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