Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

by Andrew Newman and Andrew Newman

On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d' ole, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816689636
• ISBN13: 9780816689637
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.7" x 7.9"