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Greening the Black Urban Regime - The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit (Hardcover)
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Greening the Black Urban Regime - The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit (Hardcover)
Series: Great Lakes Books Series
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Alesia Montgomery's Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture
and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit tells the story of the
struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit. Cultural workers,
envisioning a green city crafted by direct democracy, had begun to
draw idealistic young newcomers to Detroit's street art and
gardens. Then a billionaire developer and private foundations hired
international consultants to redesign downtown and to devise a city
plan. Using the justice-speak of cultural workers, these
consultants did innovative outreach, but they did not enable
democratic deliberation. The Detroit Future City plan won awards,
and the new green venues in the gentrified downtown have gotten
good press. However, low-income black Detroiters have little
ability to shape "greening" as uneven development unfolds and
poverty persists. Based on years of fieldwork, Montgomery takes us
into the city council chambers, nonprofit offices, gardens,
churches, cafes, street parties, and public protests where the
future of Detroit was imagined, debated, and dictated. She begins
by using statistical data and oral histories to trace the impacts
of capital flight, and then she draws on interviews and
observations to show how these impacts influence city planning.
Hostility between blacks and whites shape the main narrative, yet
indigenous, Asian, Arab, and Latinx peoples in Detroit add to the
conflict. Montgomery compares Detroit to other historical black
urban regimes (HBURs)-U.S. cities that elected their first black
mayors soon after the 1960s civil rights movement. Critiques of
ecological urbanism in HBURs typically focus on gentrification. In
contrast, Montgomery identifies the danger as minoritization: the
imposition of "beneficent" governance across gentrified and
non-gentrified neighborhoods that treats the black urban poor as
children of nature who lack the (mental, material) capacities to
decide their future. Scholars and students in the social sciences,
as well as general readers with social and environmental justice
concerns, will find great value in this research.
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