Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

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On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d' ole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor's vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers.

Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816689636

ISBN13:9780816689637

Release Date:April 2015

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 4.7" x 7.9"

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Architecture Social Science Social Sciences

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