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...)produced in current environmental agendas and municipal plans. This chapter argues that the West Oakland Specific Plan portrays an eco-friendly city while erasing the Black population from the historically African American district of West Oakland as it rebrands the municipality as a white and green city...

... of colonial governance in the Philippines and organized the police force in US-occupied Havana. This chapter explores the similarities between attempts to subordinate US overseas colonies and multiracial New York City. After becoming police commissioner in 1903, Greene reorganized the detective bureau...

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... billions trying to colonize space, we should use our resources to mitigate and adapt to climate change. To preserve biodiversity we need to promote the Rights of Nature. climate refugees climate havens green cities biosphere insect apocalypse Rights of Nature migration ...

...)produced in current environmental agendas and municipal plans. This chapter argues that the West Oakland Specific Plan portrays an eco-friendly city while erasing the Black population from the historically African American district of West Oakland as it rebrands the municipality as a white and green city...

... The Urban Forest: Chapter 5 explores forest valorization, and green capitalism more widely, as a cultural project. Efforts to make the forest culturally valuable were entangled with those to make it monetarily valuable in ways that reshaped the Acrean capital city and the lives of some of its...

... estate markets and finance capital did so in a new age of austerity and the stakes thereof for urban futures. urban greening shrinking cities austerity value redlining ...

... controversial proposal to build the world's largest urban forest in the center of the city. It contrasts the aspirations of Hantz Farms with those of a Black radical farming project called Feedom Freedom, which exemplifies a broader movement in Detroit to respond to late capitalism and political abandonment...

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...: University of California Press, 1990), 13–38. Margaret Leech provides a lively description of the disarray that pervades “Job and the Bug” in Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 (1941; rpt. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1991), 1–86.Also illuminating are Constance McLaughlin Green, Washington: Village...

...: University of California Press, 1990), 13–38. Margaret Leech provides a lively description of the disarray that pervades “Job and the Bug” in Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 (1941; rpt. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1991), 1–86.Also illuminating are Constance McLaughlin Green, Washington: Village...