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Parks for Profit - Selling Nature in the City (Hardcover)
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Parks for Profit - Selling Nature in the City (Hardcover)
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A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first
century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an
urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed
infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape
architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to
turn disused areas into neighborhood anchors, with a host of
environmental and community benefits. Yet there are clear economic
motives as well-successful parks have helped generate billions of
dollars of city tax revenues and real estate development. Kevin
Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale
Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a
critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He
reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign
nature of parks to achieve their cultural, political, and economic
goals. As urban economies have become restructured around finance,
real estate, tourism, and cultural consumption, parks serve as
civic shields for elite-oriented investment. Tracing changing ideas
about cities and nature and underscoring the centrality of race and
class, Loughran argues that postindustrial parks aestheticize past
disinvestment while serving as green engines of gentrification. A
wide-ranging investigation of the political, cultural, and economic
forces shaping park development, Parks for Profit reveals the
social inequalities at the heart of today's new urban landscape.
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