ABSTRACT
Portland is a pioneer of sustainability planning. Yet its traumatic history of racial exclusion and discrimination together with the inequitable distribution of environmental amenities and increasing (environmental) gentrification, raises concerns about procedural justice linked to environmental interventions in the city. Although community groups are leading sustainability projects that acknowledge the risks of (environmental) gentrification—for example in Cully neighborhood—the formal inclusion of the African American community in these projects is still insufficient. In response to both environmental gentrification and challenges of racial inclusion, various new anti-gentrification policies and regulations have emerged. While some of these policies are the result of community mobilizations that include certain African American groups, this community is still largely neglected in the decision-making process.
Keywords
the urban development pattern of the city and neighborhood: fast-growing city; tech city, business, historic racial segregation; large scale urban renewal; sustainability planning
the urban greening of the neighborhood/city: community-led greening; green adaptative infrastructure; workforce development-centered greening; livable city planning
the inequalities at stake: environmental gentrification; historic environmental injustices; lack of Black/African American inclusion
