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Andrew J. Newman - Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris - 9780816689637 - V9780816689637
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Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

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Description for Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.

On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, 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 research with northeast Paris residents, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design, Andrew Newman argues that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has ... Read more

A tale of multidimensional political efforts, Landscape of Discontent cuts through the rhetoric of green cities to reveal the promise that environmentalism holds for urban communities anywhere.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816689637
SKU
V9780816689637
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About Andrew J. Newman
Andrew Newman is assistant professor of anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Reviews for Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris
"From Haussmann to Charlie Hebdo, Paris has always demanded our attention. Efforts to vigilantly reimagine the city and its inhabitants remain one of the most important tasks in this urban century, and Andrew Newman’s Landscape of Discontent provides masterful insights into what urban nature has been and can be."—Nik Heynen, University of Georgia "Andrew Newman has crafted a dynamic ... Read more

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