Grabbed Urban Landscapes: Socio-spatial Tensions in Green Infrastructure Planning in Medellin
Grabbed Urban Landscapes: Socio-spatial Tensions in Green Infrastructure Planning in Medellin
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DOI：
10.1111/1468-2427.12725
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Connolly, James J. T.
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作者：
Anguelovski, Isabelle;Irazabal-Zurita, Clara;Connolly, James J. T.
面临不可持续发展和气候变化的城市越来越多地将绿色基础设施作为增长和气候风险管理的方法。在此背景下，最近学术界关注的焦点是在可持续发展和绿色规划背景下的中产阶级化、房地产投机和居民流离失所。然而，我们对绿色基础设施规划在全球南方国家自建定居点的背景下对环境正义的影响知之甚少。在自建住区中，绿色基础设施干预在多大程度上产生或加剧了城市社会空间不平等？通过对一个绿地项目（麦德林绿色基础设施规划的一个标志性案例）的分析，我们认为，麦德林市政府通过侵占低收入社区的部分领土，将其转变为享有特权和快乐的绿色景观，来容纳和美化低收入社区，社区正在失去其最大的资产——地理位置、土地和社会资本。在这个过程中，社区土地被转化为一种新的审美控制和有序的自然形式，为中上层阶级和游客服务。相比之下，社区规划备选方案揭示了绿色规划如何能够更好地应对增长和气候风险，同时实现公平的社区发展。
Cities confronted with unsustainable development and climatic changes are increasingly turning to green infrastructure as an approach for growth and climate risk management. In this context, recent scholarly attention has been paid to gentrification, real-estate speculation and resident displacement in the context of sustainability and green planning in the global North. Yet we know little about the environmental-justice implications of green infrastructure planning in the context of self-built settlements of the global South. To what extent do green infrastructure interventions produce or exacerbate urban socio-spatial inequities in self-built settlements? Through the analysis of a greenbelt project, an emblematic case of green infrastructure planning in Medellin, we argue that, as the Municipality of Medellin is containing and beautifying low-income neighborhoods through grabbing part of their territories and turning them into green landscapes of privilege and pleasure, communities are becoming dispossessed of their greatest assets-location, land and social capital. In the process, community land is transformed into a new form of aesthetically controlled and ordered nature for the middle and upper classes and for tourists. By contrast, communities' planning alternatives reveal how green planning can better address growth and climate risks in tandem with equitable community development.