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Isabelle Anguelovski

Director

Isabelle is an ICREA Research Professor, a Principal Investigator, and Head of the Gender, Diversity, and Wellbeing Committee at ICTA-UAB. She also currently coordinates the Catalan-funded SGR (Research Group) BCNUEJ. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Studies from Science Po Lille and a Master’s in International Development at the Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne, pursued a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management at Harvard University and obtained a PhD in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT before returning to Europe in 2011 with a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship

As part of collaborative and individual international research projects, she studies how urban environmental injustice is materialized and contested. Currently, her focus is on four main research areas: 1) The politics of the green city as a growing global planning orthodoxy; 2) The social and racial manifestations and impacts of green gentrification for historically marginalized residents; 3) Urban planning for health and wellbeing, with a focus on health equity and justice; and 4) Justice and inclusivity in climate adaptation planning, including distributional and procedural insecurities produced by adaptation plans, interventions, and land use configurations and regulations. Her most current work examines the compounding environmental racisms and injustices faced by marginalized groups when exposed to climate impacts (e.g. heat, flooding), resilient infrastructures, and displacement pressures.

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Keywords

  • Comparative urbanism
  • Urban planning
  • Environmental justice
  • Environmental Gentrification
  • Political Economy of Urban Development
  • Sustainability Planning
  • Vulnerability and Resilience in Climate Adaptation Planning
  • Urban Health Inequalities

Affiliated Projects

  • ClimateJusticeReady

Selected Publications

  • Planas-Carbonell, A., Anguelovski, I., Oscilowicz, E., Perez de Pulgar, C., & Shokry, G. 2023. From greening the climate-adaptive city to green climate gentrification? Short-lived benefits and mixed social effects in Boston, Philadelphia, Amsterdam and Barcelona. Urban Climate.     
  • Anguelovski, I., Corbera, E. 2023. Integrating justice in Nature-Based Solutions to avoid nature-enabled dispossession. Ambio. 1-9.
  • Anguelovski, I. and Connolly J. JT. 2024. Segregating by greening: What do we mean by green gentrification. Journal of Planning Literature.
  • Oscilowicz, E., Anguelovski, I.., García-Lamarca​, M., Cole, H. V., Shokry, G., Perez-del-Pulgar, C., . . . Connolly, J. J. 2023. Grassroots mobilization for a just, green urban future: Building community infrastructure against green gentrification and displacement. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-34.
  • Anguelovski, I.., Honey-Rosés, J., & Marquet, O. 2023. Equity concerns in transformative planning: Barcelona’s Superblocks under scrutiny. Cities & Health, 1-9. 
  • Shokry, G., Anguelovski, I., & Connolly, J. J. 2023. (Mis-) belonging to the climate-resilient city: Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-21.
  • Amorim‐Maia, A. T., Anguelovski, I., Chu, E., & Connolly, J. 2023. Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona. Environmental policy and governance. 
  • Calderón-Argelich, A., Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J. J., & Baró, F. 2023. Greening plans as (re) presentation of the city: Toward an inclusive and gender-sensitive approach to urban greenspaces. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 127984.
  • Kotsila, P. & Anguelovski, I. 2023. Justice should be at the centre of assessments of climate change impacts on health. The Lancet public health, 8 (1).
  • Garcia-Lamarca, M., Anguelovski, I., Venner, K. 2022. Challenging the financial capture of urban greening. Nature Communications.
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