Green Urban Political Ecologies
Toward a Better Understanding of Inner-City Environmental Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4142256 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nik Heynen (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 499-516 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a37365 |
| OpenAlex | W2072538243 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 54 |
This research uses a Marxist urban political ecology framework to link processes of urban environmental metabolization explicitly to the consumption fund of the built environment. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I argue in this paper that Marxist notions of metabolism are ideal for investigating urban environmental change and the production of uneven urban environments. In so doing, I argue that despite the embeddedness of Harvey's circuits of capital within urban political economy, these connected notions still have a great deal to offer regarding better understanding relations between consumption and metabolization of urban environments. From this theoretical perspective, I investigate urban socionatural metabolization as a function of the broader socioeconomic processes related to urban restructuring within the USA between 1962 and 1993 in the Indianapolis inner-city urban forest. The research examines the relations between changes in household income and changes in urban forest canopy cover. The results of the research indicate that there was a significant decline over time in the Indianapolis urban forest canopy and that median household was related to these changes, thus demonstrating a concrete example of urban environmental metabolization
Biology · Economic geography · Embeddedness · Geography · Marxist philosophy · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Urban density · Urban ecology · Urban forest · Urban metabolism · Urban planning · Urbanization · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Political Economy and Marxism · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology
Crowning the May Queen in Freshwater Place
Visiones desiguales sobre la conservación en la periferia urbana
Emerging synthesis themes from the study of social-ecological systems of a tropical city
Institutional Barriers to Urban Greenspace Planning in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana
Valoración visual de la calidad ambiental del área urbana de Querétaro, México
Urbanizaciones cerradas en el área sur de la ciudad de Santiago, 2010-2019
The relationship between urban forests and income
The Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Heat Risk–Related Land Cover in Relation to Residential Segregation
Spatial planning for multifunctional green infrastructure
Spatial distribution of vegetation in Montreal
Who lives in greener neighborhoods? The distribution of street greenery and its association with residents’ socioeconomic conditions in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Uneven Access and Underuse of Ecological Amenities in Urban Parks of the Río Piedras Watershed
An ecological public health approach to understanding the relationships between sustainable urban environments, public health and social equity
A political ecology of the built environment
Community Theories of Change
Effects of Urban Vegetation on Mitigating Exposure of Vulnerable Populations to Excessive Heat in Cleveland, Ohio
Equitable accessibility of public open spaces
The Materiality of Socio-Ecological Conflicts
The street as workspace
Greening the alleys
Convergence of urban forest and socio-economic indicators of resilience
Home-grown food
The urban growth machine, central place theory and access to open space
Economic and socio-ecological effects of sand mining on livelihoods in the Gomoa East District and Ga South Municipality, Ghana
Do Trees Seed Neoliberalism? Race, Public Spaces, and the Moral Economy of Greenery in 1990s Los Angeles
Sustain no city
Sunlight and free markets
Placing race
The boundaries of urban metabolism
Urban political ecology I
Failing to Grow "Their" Own Justice? The Co-Production of Racial/Gendered Labor and Milwaukee's Urban Forest
In the Nature of Cities
Urban landscape as mirror of ethnicity
Political Ecologies of Gentrification
Uneven urban metabolisms
Nature, race, and parks
What is an everyday urban ecology
Cities and sustainability
Actor-Network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental Justice
When green is White
Volume control
Political ecology and habitat conservation for endangered species planning in Southern California
Rethinking the nature of urban environmental politics
What is social sustainability? A clarification of concepts
A political–industrial ecology of water supply infrastructure for Los Angeles
Trees and Trash
Governance of green infrastructure planning in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’’
Introduction to “Political ecologies of urban waterfront transformations”
Toward a green and playful city
There’s always the river
Toward Improved Public Health Outcomes From Urban Nature
Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests
The New Urban Politics as a Politics of Carbon Control
The Urban Political Ecology of Post-industrial Scottish Towns
A political ecology of scale in urban air pollution monitoring
Internal Ecologies and the Limits of Local Biologies
The Political Ecology of Uneven Urban Green Space
Out from the (Green) shadow? Neoliberal hegemony through the market logic of shared urban environmental governance
Defying' democratization and environmental protection in Kenya
Neoliberalism and the Biophysical Environment 3
Street Trees and Equity
Équité environnementale et distribution spatiale de la végétation à l'intérieur et autour des îlots résidentiels à Montréal
Good Sediment
Justice, Nature and the City
Atlantic Gardens in Mediterranean Climates
Thermal Eco-cities
The Urbanization of Nature in a (Post)Socialist Metropolis
Urban Political Ecologies and Children's Geographies
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology
The Civics of Urban Nature
Ecological infrastructure in a critical-historical perspective
Stewardship
The sanitary city
The Negro population of Chicago
American apartheid
The search for the ultimate sink
Marx's Ecology
Contemporary urban ecology
The Social Production of Urban Space
Justice and the Environment
Social Justice and the City
Concrete and Clay
Social Power and the Urbanization of Water
Uneven Development
The Urban Experience
The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Human ecology
Just Sustainabilities
Urban fortunes
Power, Nature, and the City. The Conquest of Water and the Political Ecology of Urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Urban Vegetation
Exploring the Nexus
Local State Dynamics and Gentrification in Indianapolis, Indiana
The Urban Forest of New Orleans
Bustbelt to Boomtown
The Social Equity of Urban Service Distribution
Inequitable access to urban reforestation
Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale
The Scalar Production of Injustice within the Urban Forest
Governance and regulation in local environmental policy
Modernity and Hybridity
The city as a hybrid
Social justice and the city
Urban Political Ecology1
Anima urbis
The Quality of the Urban Environment
The Indianapolis 'Fortune 500
Dumping in Dixie
| Unique citing works | 72 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 66 |