Social Justice in the Green City

The Covid-19 pandemic and energy, climate, demographic crises have shown how cities are vulnerable to these impacts the access green blue spaces has become highly relevant people. One strategy that we can observe is strong focus on resilience discourse, meaning implementing more in urban areas, such as at previous brownfield quarters. However, social justice implications of greening been overlooked for a long time. implementation strategies improve quality availability infrastructures may indeed negative outcomes far housing accessibility concerned by trigging gentrification processes. Issues related environmental socio-spatial increasing contemporary call better understanding global local mechanisms production reproduction spatial inequalities. This thematic issue includes eleven articles with different methodologies, examples from Europe North America well lenses gentrification. Some question costs, benefits, distributional consequences various infrastructural options greening. Others, instead, discuss strategic planning tools policy processes take into account consequences, specific attention participatory