City environmental initiatives have been heralded for their contributions to global environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality. Bringing these two disparate analyses into conversation, this book offers a comparative understanding of how the multilevel nature of environmental governance and social inequity are playing out in practice in three major cities of the global North (Chicago, USA; Birmingham, UK; and Vancouver, Canada). McKendry argues that these cities' greening efforts have been closely connected to broader processes of post-industrial...
City environmental initiatives have been heralded for their contributions to global environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displaceme...