Greening the urban frontier: Race, property, and resettlement in Detroit

Geoforum

Volumn 56, Issue , 2014, Pages 237-248

  Safransky, Sara ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation by green dispossession; Decolonization; Gentrification; Settler colonialism; Urban greening; Urban political ecology

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; DECOLONIZATION; FRONTIER REGION; GENTRIFICATION; GREENSPACE; RACE; REDEVELOPMENT; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC SERVICE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLITICS;

DETROIT; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907245061     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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