Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

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In Landscape of Discontent Andrew Newman draws extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design to argue that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has been appropriated by forces of redevelopment and gentrification.

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"From Haussmann to Charlie Hebdo, Paris has always demanded our attention. Efforts to vigilantly reimagine the city and its inhabitants remain one of the most important tasks in this urban century, and Andrew Newmans Landscape of Discontent provides masterful insights into what urban nature has been and can be."Nik Heynen, University of Georgia

"Andrew Newman has crafted a dynamic account of how local residents and activists can transform a social and physical urban environment by drawing in the very political forcesincluding city plannersthat imagine themselves as the true shapers of that reality."Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University

"This is a fantastic book that should be required reading for anyone invested in debates on the right to the city, urban political ecology, and the cultural politics of belonging in contemporary France."Antipode

"An important contribution to a small, but growing body of Anglophone literature on housing and the built environment in late twentieth-century France."H-France Review

"Landscape of Discontent makes an important contribution to the politics of urban development, environmental activism, political power, and ethnocultural relations within the contemporary global city of Paris."American Anthropologist

"The author describes the grassroots protests opposing the rail companyled project for economic development and the political moves leading to the building of the park, bringing to light the actions and motives of activists and inhabitants, through interviews, conversations, and his own involvement in daily activities in the neighborhood."Journal of Urban Affairs

"Through research with residents, activists, and urban planners, Newman weaves together a detailed ethnography of grassroots mobilization with a structural analysis of neoliberal urbanism."Metropolitics

Author Bio

Andrew Newman is assistant professor of anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit.