Greening Post-Industrial Cities: Growth, Equity, and Environmental Governance

City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality.

Bringing these two disparate analyses into conversation, this book offers a comparative understanding of how tensions between growth, environmental protection, and social equity are playing out in practice. Examining Chicago, USA, Birmingham, UK, and Vancouver, Canada, McKendry argues that city greening efforts were closely connected to processes of post-i...