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Melissa García-Lamarca. Photo.

Melissa García

Associate senior lecturer

Melissa García-Lamarca. Photo.

Ordinary and extraordinary greening : Tensions amidst Saint-Henri, Montréal’s development boom

Author

  • Melissa García-Lamarca
  • Aaron Vansintjan

Editor

  • Isabelle Anguelovski
  • James J. T. Connolly

Summary, in English

The neighborhood of Sant-Henri in Montréal’s Southwest borough has long been associated with poverty, marginality and squalor. But this is rapidly changing as both extraordinary, large-scale green infrastructures and small-scale, more ordinary forms of greening are expanding across the neighborhood, amidst private luxury housing development and rising rents. Both extraordinary and ordinary greening are also connected to Saint-Henri’s transforming foodscape, where new gourmet restaurants and up-scale cafés, a renovated farmers’ market and renovated grocery stores are displacing the diners, dépanneurs (corner stores) and other food shops long frequented by working-class residents. What happens when, all at once, a community faces food gentrification, small-scale greening projects and large-scale green infrastructure? This chapter explores the greening-related tensions and inequities that are unfolding in Saint Henri, where new multi-scalar greening projects and foodscapes are stitching together a post-industrial landscape to create new-and often exclusionary-forms of urban living. At the intersection of these tensions, local community groups have resisted and fought for alternative forms of development on multiple scales.

Publishing year

2021-01-01

Language

English

Pages

187-199

Publication/Series

The Green City and Social Injustice : 21 Tales from North America and Europe

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Human Geography

Keywords

  • de-industrialization
  • displacement
  • food gentrification
  • green gentrification
  • green space
  • income inequalities
  • new green infrastructure
  • real estate development boom
  • the inequalities at stake: insufficient affordable housing
  • the urban development pattern of the city and neighborhood: recent fast-growing
  • the urban greening of the neighborhood: canal decontamination and regeneration

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781003183273
  • ISBN: 9781032024134