Resumen

BAUMGARTNER., Wendel Henrique. Green Gentrification and the Right to Nature in the City. Appropriation of Nature in the Capitalist Production of Urban Space. Rev. Ciudades Estados Política [online]. 2021, vol.8, n.2, pp.17-32.  Epub 13-Mayo-2022. ISSN 2462-9103.

Green and blue infrastructures, greening plans, and other environmental actions are in the agenda of several urban planning projects, motivated by adaptations due climate change to build a resilient city or a sustainable urban space. These projects, regrettably, can lead to environmental, social, and territorial problems in several cities, as the green gentrification. As natural amenities they act as bait to attract higher income residents to a neighborhood. Appropriated by the real estate market, and contradicting several aspects of spatial justice, we observe the constitution of an uneven right to nature in the city. In São Paulo (Brazil's largest city), disputed remaining of central green areas, converted into public parks, are now valorizing residential buildings, increasing rents and prices of new housing projects. As well, other green areas and public parks, in the contact zones of uneven neighborhoods, have been walled and gated. Without a right construction, ensuring the social and spatial justice, without the direct State action in rental and land prices control, production of affordable housing, among others, these renaturing urban projects can, unfortunately and (maybe) unintentionally, accelerate and promote green gentrification. This is not an opposition to greening projects, but the creation of an extra layer of complexity, tackling spatial justice and the universal right to nature in the city.

Palabras clave : urban geography; greening projects; urban environment; spatial justice; climate change.

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