ABSTRACT
While Philadelphia has been a frontrunner in deploying green infrastructure to reach sustainability goals that increasingly target climate risks and impacts, in recent years there has been growing recognition that these efforts have lacked equitable outcomes. Central gentrifying neighborhoods have become greener, making them cooler in summertime and more permeable during storms, while peripheral, lower-income neighborhoods of color remain some of the hottest and most flood-prone, posing significant risks to the health and security of residents. Hunting Park is a culturally and organizationally vibrant neighborhood that faces shifting and combined social and environmental riskscapes, including decades-long disinvestment, encroaching gentrification and widespread climate vulnerability. This chapter unpacks and explores Hunting Park’s struggles and successes in protecting vulnerable residents from growing displacement pressures just as it is incorporated into a new and potentially “risky” green resilience planning paradigm.
Keywords
the urban development pattern of the city and neighborhood: post-industrial redevelopment; recovering city; recent gentrification
the urban greening of the neighborhood: green resilient infrastructure; green stormwater infrastructure; revitalized parks and gardens; vacant lot greening
the inequalities at stake: deep inequities in access to green; climate vulnerability; climate gentrification; green gentrification; insufficient affordable housing; poor quality housing; vacant lots
