Rebecca H. Walker

Bringing Just Green Enough Down to Earth: Limits and Possibilities for Anti-Gentrification Park Planning

Hannah Ramer, Rebecca H. Walker, Kate Driscoll Derickson, Bonnie Keeler

Problem, research strategy, and findings While many low-income neighborhoods lack adequate access to green space, new park investments can increase housing costs, driving resident fears about gentrification. In this case study we examined the planning process for a new park in Minneapolis …

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Race and income moderate the effect of parks on housing prices in a segregated city

Adriana Castillo-Castillo, Rebecca H. Walker, Bonnie Keeler, Eric V. Lonsdorf et autres

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Contesting Nature

Kate Derickson, Gabe Schwartzman, Rebecca H. Walker

This chapter focuses on community-based responses to changing political and environmental conditions. The chapter argues that nature is a field of power to illustrate how environments articulate with various forms of difference to become key sintes of struggle, oppression, and resistance. Using …

Making the City of Lakes: Whiteness, Nature, and Urban Development in Minneapolis

Rebecca H. Walker, Hannah Ramer, Kate Driscoll Derickson, Bonnie Keeler

Minneapolis has the twin distinctions of having one of the most highly rated park systems in the United States and some of the most pronounced racial disparities in wealth and homeownership. We argue that this coupling of urban nature and racial inequality …

Redlining, greenlining: Discourses of race and nature in Home Owners Loan Corporation neighborhood appraisals

Rebecca H. Walker, Antara Mandal, Hannah Ramer, Bonnie Keeler et autres

Studies drawing correlations between Home Owners Loan Corporation “redlining” maps and present-day environmental outcomes have raised public attention about the role of systemic racial discrimination in producing uneven outcomes in the urban environment. In this analysis, we draw on a novel data …

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Advancing green space equity via policy change: A scoping review and research agenda

Alessandro Rigolon, Rexford Osei Owusu, Marisol Becerra, Yuan Cheng et autres

The intersection of justice and urban greening: Future directions and opportunities for research and practice

Kate Driscoll Derickson, Rebecca H. Walker, Maike Hamann, Pippin Anderson et autres

The global uptake of green infrastructure in urban settings holds considerable promise for fostering both social and ecological benefits. Recognizing the imperative to ensure equitable distribution of these advantages, this paper draws on the rich traditions of justice considerations within urban studies …

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The impacts of racially discriminatory housing policies on the distribution of intra-urban heat and tree canopy: A comparison of racial covenants and redlining in Minneapolis, MN

Rebecca H. Walker, Bonnie Keeler, Kate Driscoll Derickson

Research has demonstrated the impact of historic discriminatory mortgage lending (i.e., “redlining”) on the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, while the environmental legacies of other racially discriminatory housing policies remain unexplored. Using a novel dataset of racial covenants in Minneapolis and …

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Making the City of Lakes: Whiteness, Nature, and Urban Development in Minneapolis

Rebecca H. Walker, Hannah Ramer, Kate Driscoll Derickson, Bonnie Keeler

Minneapolis has the twin distinctions of having one of the most highly rated park systems in the United States and some of the most pronounced racial disparities in wealth and homeownership. We argue that this coupling of urban nature and racial inequality …

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Mapping Prejudice

Rebecca H. Walker, Kate Driscoll Derickson

Problem, research strategy, and findings Following the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis (MN) residents and city officials turned to Mapping Prejudice—a project that mapped every racial covenant in the city and its suburbs—to understand Minneapolis’s deep racial disparities. For this study, we …

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From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice Within Government Agencies

Rebecca H. Walker

What happens when an agency established to monitor air pollution and mitigate contaminated waterways is tasked with carrying out social justice? Jill Harrison’s new book, From the Inside Out: The F...

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Engineering gentrification: urban redevelopment, sustainability policy, and green stormwater infrastructure in Minneapolis

Rebecca H. Walker

Cities increasingly turn to green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) to improve water quality and mitigate flooding risk, yet like other forms of green infrastructure, early research suggests GSI may contribute to ‘green gentrification,’ in which greening increases housing costs, drives gentrification and displacement, …

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