Just green enough: Contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Local Environment

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1027-1042

  Curran, Winifred ^a   Hamilton, Trina ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GENTRIFICATION; GREENSPACE; NEIGHBORHOOD; POLICY MAKING; REMEDIATION; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NEWTOWN CREEK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867206814     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2012.729569     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Agyeman, J., Bullard, R. D. and Evans, B. 2002. Exploring the nexus: bringing together sustainability, environmental justice and equity. Space and Polity, 6(1): 77-90.
2. Banzhaf, H.S. and McCormick, E., 2007. Moving beyond cleanup: identifying the crucibles of environmental gentrification. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Research Paper Series, Working Paper 07-29, May, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
3. Brown-Saracino, J. 2009. A neighborhood that never changes: gentrification, social preservation, and the search for authenticity, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
4. Bunce, S. 2009. Developing sustainability: sustainability policy and gentrification on Toronto's waterfront. Local Environment, 14(7): 651-667.
5. Caulfield, J. 1994. City form and everyday life: toronto's gentrification and critical social practice, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
6. Chaban, M., 2009. Twice as Smelly: Mayor wants to scrub Gowanus, avoiding Superfund listing [online]. The Architects Newspaper, 9 November. Available from: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=4014 [Accessed 10 February 2012].
7. Chaban, M., 2011. Greenpoint colossus: massive 10-tower complex could rise next year [online]. The New York Observer, 1 November. Available from: http://www.observer.com/2011/11/greenpoint-colossus-massive-10-tower-complex-could-rise-next-year/ [Accessed 3 November 2011].
8. Checker, M. 2011. Wiped out by the "Greenwave": environmental gentrification and the paradoxical politics of urban sustainability. City & Society, 23(2): 210-229.
9. Chun, J., 2012. In. U.S. manufacturing revival, small businesses could play crucial role [online]. Huffington Post, 9 February. Available from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/manufacturing-small-business-revival_n_1205736.html [Accessed 10 February 2012].
10. Coleman, R., Tombs, S., and Whyte, D., 2005. Capital, crime control and statecraft in the entrepreneurial city. Urban Studies, 42 (13), 2511-2530.
11. Cowell, R. and Thomas, H. 2002. Managing nature and narratives of dispossession: reclaiming territory in Cardiff Bay. Urban Studies, 39(7): 1241-1260.
12. Curran, W. 2010. In defense of old industrial spaces: manufacturing, creativity, and innovation in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(4): 87-85.
13. Dale, A. and Newman, L. L. 2009. Sustainable development for some: green urban development and affordability. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 14(7): 669-681.
14. Davidson, M. 2011. Critical commentary. Gentrification in crisis: towards consensus or disagreement?. Urban Studies, 48(10): 1987-1996.
15. DeSena, J. 2009. Gentrification and inequality in Brooklyn: the new kids on the block, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
16. Desfor, G., Keil, R. and Ross, K. M. 2004. "Contested and polluted terrain: soil remediation in Toronto". In Nature and the city: making environmental policy in Toronto and Los Angeles, Edited by: Desfor, G. and Keil, R. 140-172. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press.
17. Dooling, S. 2009. Ecological gentrification: a research agenda exploring justice in the city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(3): 621-639.
18. Eckerd, A. 2011. Cleaning up without clearing out? A spatial assessment of environmental gentrification. Urban Affairs Review, 47(1): 31-59.
19. EPA, 2007. Newtown Creek/Greenpoint oil spill study Brooklyn New York [online]. 12 September. Available from: www.epa.gov/region2/.../newtowncreek/newtowncreek_review.pdf [Accessed 11 November 2009].
20. Essoka, J. D. 2010. The gentrifying effects of brownfields redevelopment. Western Journal of Black Studies, 34(3): 299-315.
21. Evans, J., Jones, P. and Kreuger, R. 2009. Organic regeneration and sustainability or can the credit crunch save our cities?. Local Environment, 14(7): 683-698.
22. Freedman, S.G., 1986. Signs of transformation in neighborly Greenpoint. New York Times, 15 October. Available from: http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/15/nyregion/signs-of-transformation-in-neighborly-greenpoint.html?pagewanted=all [Accessed 18 April 2012].
23. Gandy, M. 2002. Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York city, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
24. Gray, R., 2011. Box house hotel in Greenpoint as "industrial chic" as it gets [online]. Village Voice, 23 August. Available from: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/box_house_hotel.php [Accessed 1 September 2011].
25. Haughton, G. 1999. Environmental justice and the sustainable city. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 18(3): 233-243.
26. Hedin, K. 2012. Neoliberalization of housing in Sweden: gentrification, filtering, and social polarization. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(2): 443-463.
27. Holden, M. 2011. Public participation and local sustainability: questioning a common agenda in urban governance. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(2): 312-329.
28. Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates, Inc., 2010. Newtown Creek BOA public open house summary [online]. 3 November. Available from: http://www.newtowncreekboa.org/content/files/Memo_Open%20House%20Summary_102810%20doc%20(2).pdf [Accessed 19 March 2012].
29. Hurd, B. H. 2002. Valuing Superfund site cleanup: evidence of recovering stigmatized property values. The Appraisal Journal, 70(4): 426-437.
30. Jackson, K. and Manbeck, J. 1998. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn, 123-159. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
31. Jonas, A. E.G. and While, A. 2007. "Greening the entrepreneurial city? Looking for spaces of sustainability politics in the competitive city". In The sustainable development paradox: urban political economy in the United States and Europe, Edited by: Kreuger, R. and Gibbs, D. New York: Guilford Press.
32. Krueger, R. and Agyeman, J. 2005. Sustainability schizophrenia or actually existing sustainabilities? The politics and promise of a sustainability agenda in the US. Geoforum, 36(4): 410-417.
33. Ley, D. 1996. The new middle class and the remaking of the central city, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
34. Mann, J., 2011. DEC-ision on boathouse funding is announced [online]. Greenpoint Gazette. Available from: http://www.greenpointnews.com/news/3935/dec-ision-on-boathouse-funding-announced [Accessed 27 March 2012].
35. Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, 2012. NYC's waves: assessing the first year. Waterwire, 23 March. Available from: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs021/1102224464492/archive/1109471898998.html#hearing [Accessed 25 September 2012].
36. New York Times, 1894. The nuisances must go. The New York Times, 12 December. Available from: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70616F93C5415738DDDAB0994DA415B8485F0D3 [Accessed 18 April 2012].
37. Newman, A., 2007. Fouled Creek's improvement inspires a site for respite. New York Times, 27 September, B3.
38. Newtown Creek Alliance, n.d. Working waterfront [online]. Available from: http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/working-waterfront/ [Accessed 20 March 2012].
39. NYC DCP (New York City Department of Planning). 2002. Greenpoint 197a plan, New York: New York City Department of City Planning.
40. NYC EDC, n.d. Industrial desk [online]. Available from: http://www.nycedc.com/industry/industrial [Accessed 23 March 2012].
41. NYS DEC (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation), 2011. Greenpoint petroleum remediation project: project history [online]. Available from: http://nysdecgreenpoint.com/ProjectHistory.aspx [Accessed 9 June 2011].
42. Pearsall, H. 2009. Linking the stressors and stressing the linkages: human-environment vulnerability and brownfield redevelopment in New York city. Environmental Hazards, 8: 117-132.
43. Pearsall, H. 2010. From brown to green? Assessing social vulnerability to environmental gentrification in New York city. Environment and Planning C, 28(5): 872-886.
44. Quastel, N. 2009. Political ecologies of gentrification. Urban Geography, 30(7): 694-725.
45. Raco, M. 2005. Sustainable development, rolled-out neoliberalism and sustainable communities. Antipode, 37: 324-347.
46. Raco, M. 2007. "Spatial policy, sustainability, and state restructuring: a reassessment of sustainable community building in England". In The sustainable development paradox: urban political economy in the United States and Europe, Edited by: Kreuger, R. and Gibbs, D. 214-237. New York: Guilford Press.
47. Ruen, C., 2009. The ironic nature walk. New York Times, 8 May. Available from: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/nyregion/thecity/10boul.html [Accessed 10 May 2009].
48. Sherman, G., 2012. The end of wall street as they knew it [online]. New York, 5 February. Available from: http://nymag.com/news/features/wall-street-2012-2/ [Accessed 7 February 2012].
49. Short, A., 2011. "Walk" this way! City to expand Newtown Creek nature path [online]. Brooklyn paper, 20 January. Available from: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/3/wb_naturewalk_2011_1_21_bk.html [Accessed 27 March 2012].
50. Slater, T. 2006. The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30(4): 737-757.
51. Smith, N. 1996. The new urban frontier: gentrification and the revanchist city, London: Routledge.
52. State of New York Attorney General, 2010. Cuomo announces settlement with ExxonMobil to provide for comprehensive cleanup of Greenpoint oil spill [online]. 17 November. Available from: www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2010/nov/nov17b_10.html [Accessed 19 November 2010].
53. Swyngedouw, E. 2007. "Impossible sustainability". In The sustainable development paradox, Edited by: Krueger, R. and Gibbs, D. 13-40. New York: Guilford.
54. Walker, D., 2007a. A creek cruise with sights rare, even to New Yorkers [online]. The New York Times, 16 July. Available from: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/nyregion/16cruise.html [Accessed 25 September 2012].
55. Walker, D., 2007b. Exxon Mobil cleanup effort continues on 1950 spill [online]. New York Times, 19 July, B2.
56. Walks, A. and August, M. 2008. The factors inhibiting gentrification in areas with little non-market housing: policy lessons from the Toronto experience. Urban Studies, 45(12): 2594-2625.
57. Weiss, R. and Heimbinder, M., 2011. Creek speak: voices from Newtown Creek. Newtown Creek community health and harms narrative project: final report for the Newtown Creek alliance [online]. Available from: http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/community-health/creek-speak/ [Accessed 25 September 2012].
58. While, A., Jonas, A. E.G. and Gibbs, D. 2004. The environment and the entrepreneurial city: searching for the urban "sustainability fix" in Manchester and Leeds. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 28(3): 549-69.
59. World Commission on Environment and Development. 1987. Our common future, New York: Oxford University Press.