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• Double jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events - Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance
• Linking the Budyko framework and the Dunne diagram - ScienceDirect
• Estimating global urbanization trends over the 21st century | IIASA
• Bourdieu and habitus
• History of Urbanization and the Missing Ecology | SpringerLink
• Gerber, J-F (2025). The second contradiction of capitalism, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 52:1071–1083
• → O'Connor, J (1991). On the two contradictions of capitalism, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 3:107–109 (the original idea)
• Foster, JB (2013). Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature, Monthly Review, 65:n/a
• Clark, B & Foster, JB (2018). The Robbery of Nature, Monthly Review, 70:n/a.
• Eyster et al. (2024) Green gentrification & the luxury effect: uniting isolated ideas towards just cities for people & nature, Ecosystems and People, 20:2399621
• Urban Vacant Land and Community Access (Special Issue)
• Bandai & Ghezzehei (2020) (pinn)
• Tartakovsky et al. (2020) (pinn)
• Bandai & Ghezzehei (2021) (pinn)
• Chen et al. (2023) (pinn)
• Guan et al. (2024) (pinn)
• Shadab et al. (2021) (pinn), (groundwater)
• Secci et al. (2024) (pinn), (groundwater)
• Depina et al. (2021) (pinn), (groundwater)
• Rucks-Ahidiana, Z (2022) Racializing explanations of gentrification, marxistsociology
• Anguelovski, I. (2015). Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, 39(6), 1209–1230. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12299
• Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J., & Brand, A. L. (2018). From landscapes of utopia to the margins of the green urban life. City, 22(3), 417–436. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1473126
• Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J. J. T., Cole, H., Garcia-Lamarca, M., Triguero-Mas, M., Baró, F., Martin, N., Conesa, D., Shokry, G., del Pulgar, C. P., Ramos, L. A., Matheney, A., Gallez, E., Oscilowicz, E., Máñez, J. L., Sarzo, B., Beltrán, M. A., & Minaya, J. M. (2022). Green gentrification in European and North American cities. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31572-1
• Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J. J. T., Garcia-Lamarca, M., Cole, H., & Pearsall, H. (2019). New scholarly pathways on green gentrification: What does the urban ‘green turn’ mean and where is it going? Progress in Human Geography, 43(6), 1064–1086. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518803799
• Anguelovski, I., & Shokry, G. (2021). Addressing green and climate gentrification in East Boston. In The Green City and Social Injustice. Routledge.
• Beck, U. (1999). World Risk Society (1st edition). Polity.
• Blok, A. (2020). Urban green gentrification in an unequal world of climate change. Urban Studies, 57(14), 2803–2816.
• Curran, W., & Hamilton, T. (2012). Just green enough: Contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Local Environment, 17(9), 1027–1042. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.729569
• Curran, W., & Hamilton, T. (Eds.). (2017). Just Green Enough: Urban Development and Environmental Gentrification (1st edition). Routledge.
• Kocisky, K. (2022). Towards conceptions of green gentrification as more-than-human. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 646–665. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211001754
• Pearsall, H., & Eller, J. K. (2020). Locating the green space paradox: A study of gentrification and public green space accessibility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Landscape and Urban Planning, 195, 103708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103708
• Wolch, J. R., Byrne, J., & Newell, J. P. (2014). Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough.’ Landscape and Urban Planning, 125, 234–244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.017

[Some gentrification scholars] argue that by creating smaller parks and other environmentally friendly infrastructure that can produce job opportunities for long-term residents, there can be a compromise solution that balances the needs of the community and urban greening projects (Curran & Hamilton, 2012, 2017; Kocisky, 2022; Wolch et al., 2014). Kocisky critiques this approach, arguing that it overemphasizes the interactions between elites and long-term residents near green spaces while overlooking its potential effect on perpetuating dynamic injustice and resistance (Kocisky, 2022, p. 656). Unlike other critiques that detail gentrification’s causal relationship with green spaces (Anguelovski et al., 2022; Pearsall & Eller, 2020; Rigolon & Németh, 2020), Kocisky’s approach highlights its episodic and multidirectional nature. — (Zhang, 2024)

Ulrich Beck’s cosmopolitan theory and risk-centric analytics may be a good alternative to the capital-centric approaches to analyze the cost of urban greening (Blok, 2020). — (Zhang, 2024)

[…] Blok (2020) indicates that local green gentrification, where urban socio-material inequalities are exacerbated through urban greening, contributes to the global effort, albeit insufficiently, to mitigate the widening disparities caused by climate change. However, during this process, the local marginalized groups still endure the entire cost of the sustainability-oriented urban development that aims to address the global climate risk (Beck, 1999; Blok, 2020, p.14). — (Zhang, 2024)

Free city — A medieval city that nominally was governed by a bishop but enjoyed many rights of self-government, trade rights and other privileges. These cities owed neither taxes nor allegiance to the emperor and could not be pledged by the empire.

Hanseatic city — A city that belonged to the Hanseatic League that was founded in the 12th century in Lübeck and gradually lost importance in the 17th century.

Hanse is the old high German word for group, or fellowship. The Hanse was a trade alliance of Northern European merchants (the Hansen), initially aiming to protect its members from robbery and piracy during their travels. Offices were established in Hanseatic cities that, similar to modern embassies, offered refuge to the Hansen when necessary and provided them a place to trade safely. Goods were mainly transported through Hanseatic cogs (a type of cargo ship that could be sailed by a small crew and had a flat bottom that enabled it to call at shallow waters).

Over time, the Hanse gained significant influence on the economy and politics in Northern Europe, which provided them with many trade privileges such as reduced customs duties and exclusive rights to trade certain goods.

The Hanseatic League started in the 12th century in Lübeck ("The Gate to the North"), which was the most important port in Northern Europe that enabled trade across the Baltic Sea up to Northern Russia. Initially, the Hanseatic League connected Lübeck with Hamburg. In the 13th century, many more cities joined the league. In the 14th century, member cities held their first assembly in Lübeck (Hansetag). At this point, the Hanseatic League had about 300 member cities. The assembly usually took place in Lübeck, where representatives of the Hanseatic cities attempted to assert their interest. During this time, the Hanseatic League was at the height at its power and it got entangled in politics and wars. The rise of nation states and the establishment of new trade routes under colonialism, which gave rise to strong rivals such as the East India Company, diminished the influence of the Hanse. The 17th century marks the end of the Hanse, with the last Hansetag being held by its last members in 1699.

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