Ebook A Quadrant Book: Landscape of Discontent : Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris by Andrew Newman DOC, FB2, MOBI
9780816689637 0816689636 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, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor s vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers.Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research with northeast Paris residents, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design, Andrew Newman argues that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has been appropriated by forces of redevelopment and gentrification in Paris and beyond. France s turbulent political environment also provides Newman with powerful new insights into the ways in which multiethnic coalitions can emerge even amid overt racism and Islamophobia in the struggle for more just cities and more inclusive societies.A tale of multidimensional political efforts, "Landscape of Discontent" cuts through the rhetoric of green cities to reveal the promise that environmentalism holds for urban communities anywhere.", On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d'Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor's vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers. Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research with northeast Paris residents, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design, Andrew Newman argues that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has been appropriated by forces of redevelopment and gentrification in Paris and beyond. France's turbulent political environment also provides Newman with powerful new insights into the ways in which multiethnic coalitions can emergeeven amid overt racism and Islamophobiain the struggle for more just cities and more inclusive societies. A tale of multidimensional political efforts, Landscape of Discontent cuts through the rhetoric of green cities to reveal the promise that environmentalism holds for urban communities anywhere., Sustainability has become a ubiquitous concept guiding how urban neighborhoods are reimagined and redeveloped. But are greener cities more than just cities? In Landscape of Discontent, Andrew Newman focuses on a postindustrial section of Paris to illustrate the connections between the green turn in urban redevelopment and broader transformations in society, politics, and everyday life. An in-depth look at politics in a multiethnic neighborhood, Landscape of Discontent is an important and timely contribution to current debates concerning integration and cultural difference in France. Through his original focus on urban environmentalism, Newman reveals how a diverse group of residents and activists, many of whom are French Muslims of West African and Maghrebi descent, struggles to reinvent the identify of their neighborhood and, in doing so, redefines their place in the nation. Book jacket.
9780816689637 0816689636 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, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor s vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers.Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research with northeast Paris residents, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design, Andrew Newman argues that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has been appropriated by forces of redevelopment and gentrification in Paris and beyond. France s turbulent political environment also provides Newman with powerful new insights into the ways in which multiethnic coalitions can emerge even amid overt racism and Islamophobia in the struggle for more just cities and more inclusive societies.A tale of multidimensional political efforts, "Landscape of Discontent" cuts through the rhetoric of green cities to reveal the promise that environmentalism holds for urban communities anywhere.", On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d'Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor's vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers. Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research with northeast Paris residents, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design, Andrew Newman argues that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has been appropriated by forces of redevelopment and gentrification in Paris and beyond. France's turbulent political environment also provides Newman with powerful new insights into the ways in which multiethnic coalitions can emergeeven amid overt racism and Islamophobiain the struggle for more just cities and more inclusive societies. A tale of multidimensional political efforts, Landscape of Discontent cuts through the rhetoric of green cities to reveal the promise that environmentalism holds for urban communities anywhere., Sustainability has become a ubiquitous concept guiding how urban neighborhoods are reimagined and redeveloped. But are greener cities more than just cities? In Landscape of Discontent, Andrew Newman focuses on a postindustrial section of Paris to illustrate the connections between the green turn in urban redevelopment and broader transformations in society, politics, and everyday life. An in-depth look at politics in a multiethnic neighborhood, Landscape of Discontent is an important and timely contribution to current debates concerning integration and cultural difference in France. Through his original focus on urban environmentalism, Newman reveals how a diverse group of residents and activists, many of whom are French Muslims of West African and Maghrebi descent, struggles to reinvent the identify of their neighborhood and, in doing so, redefines their place in the nation. Book jacket.