Landscape of discontent : urban sustainability in immigrant Paris /

Landscape of discontent : urban sustainability in immigrant Paris /

"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, decade-long protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, Andrew, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Series:Quadrant book.
Subjects:
Urban ecology (Sociology) > France > Paris.
Urban parks > Social aspects > France > Paris.
Sustainable urban development > France > Paris.
City planning > Environmental aspects > France > Paris.
Environmentalism > Political aspects > France > Paris.
Immigrants > France > Paris > Social conditions.
Immigrants > Political activity > France > Paris.
Paris (France) > Environmental conditions.
Paris (France) > Ethnic relations.
Paris (France) > Politics and government.
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Table of Contents:
  • Poets and Locomotives : Ecology and Politics on the Margins of Paris
  • Space, Style, and Grassroots Strategy in the Eole Mobilization
  • Cultivating the Republic? : Parks, Gardens, and Youth
  • The End(s) of Urban Ecology in the Global City
  • To Watch and Be Watched : Urban Design, Vigilance, and Contested Streets
  • The Political Life of Small Urban Spaces
  • Conclusion.

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