ABSTRACT
Toward San Francisco’s city center, the Third Street T streetcar follows the new frontier of gentrification, and once outside it moves along a rapidly changing industrial area that abuts Bayview-Hunters Point (B.V.H.P.), an ethnically mixed working-class neighborhood with the last historic concentration of African Americans in San Francisco. B.V.H.P. is the end of the line for the new streetcar’s first phase and a good point to reflect on the rising pressures for change coming down the line. For now, the gentrified upheaval that is so visible further up the line is only a shallow presence in Bayview-Hunters Point. Yet many residents and community activists perceive that a fast-moving gentrification frontier leaves them with the conundrum of either staying in a contaminated, post-industrial and climate-exposed environment or advocating for their health but being at risk of displacement.
Keywords
the urban development pattern of the city and neighborhood (i.e., fast recent growing; recovering; long-term stable growth; industrial; tech-driven, etc.): long-term growth; tech industry; spatial racial segregation; waterfront redevelopment
the urban greening of the neighborhood/city (i.e., new parks and gardens; green resilient infrastructure; food-production): environmental and ecosystem preservation; neighborhood greening; waterfront promenade; greenway; state and federal parks; community gardens
the inequalities at stake (i.e., green gentrification and/or displacement; deep inequities in access to green; climate resilience/unequal climate protection from greening; continued exposure to contamination): enduring segregation; environmental privilege; green gentrification; luxury developments; climate health risks; continued exposure to contamination
