Melissa García
Associate senior lecturer
Ordinary and extraordinary greening : Tensions amidst Saint-Henri, Montréal’s development boom
Author
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