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Other Projects of Interest

Cities, Cultures, and Climate Change – NYU Institute for Public Knowledge

Recommended Reading: Theory

Agyeman et al., Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. London: Earthscan, 2003

Checker, Melissa, “Wiped Out by the Greenwave: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability.” City and Society 23 (2): 210-229.

Clarke, John, “New Labour’s Citizens: Activated, Empowered, Responsibilized, Abandoned?” Critical Social Policy, 25(4), 2005. 447-463

Finn, Donovan and Lynn McKormick, “Urban Climate Change Plans: How Holistic?” Local Environment. 16(4), 2011. 397-416.

Hagerman, Chris, “Shaping Neighborhoods and Nature: Urban Political Ecologies of Urban Waterfront Transformation in Portland, Oregon.” Cities 24(4), 2007. 285-297.

Krueger, Rob and Julian Agyeman, “Sustainability Schizophrenia or ‘Actually Existing Sustainabilities’.” GeoForum, 35(4), 2005. 410-417

Krueger, Rob and David Gibbs, “Introduction: Problematizing the Politics of Sustainability.” In Rob Krueger and David Gibbs, eds., The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe. New York: The Guilford Press, 2007.

Maskovsky, Jeff, Governing the “New Hometowns”: Race, Power, and Neighborhood Participation in the New Inner City.” Identities, 13.73-99.

Parr, Adrian, Hijacking Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2009. See: chapter 3

Pearsall, Hamil and Joseph Pierce, “Urban Sustainability and Environmental Justice: Evaluating the Linkages in Public Planning/Policy Discourse.” Local Environment, 15(6), 2011. 569-580.

Swyngedouw, Erik, “Impossible “Sustainability” and the Postpolitical Condition.” In Rob Krueger and David Gibbs, eds., The Sustainable Development Paradox.

Warner, Kee, “Linking Local Sustainability Initiatives with Environmental Justice.” Local Environment, 7(1), 2002. 35-37.

Advocacy Groups

Green Action
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