Green Trajectories

This book examines the urban greening policy trajectories of 50 cities in Europe, Canada and the United States over the last 25 years. It identifies the main trends and strategies used and ranks cities along key criteria including the level of rhetoric, focus on health, and equitable access. The book is the result of the first stage of the GreenLULUs study, a 5-year research project examining the relationship between urban greening and social equity funded by the European Research Council and undertaken by the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Providing a clearer picture of processes like gentrification, the research aims to inform a new direction for urban sustainability, in which social and racial equity are placed at the center of planning to produce green, healthy, and equitable communities.