Article Summary

            This article looks at how environmental justice activism works together with state sponsored sustainable urban development. It describes ways through which environmental justice activism is empowered by the ongoing rapid urban development or how its strategies are being affected by the urban development. The article also describes other factors that affect environmental justice activism for example consensual politics and a language of sustainability.

            The article explores environmental gentrification that describes how initiatives have emerged in an era of advanced capitalism to shape on the material and expansive measures of the environmental justice activism. The article also describes how environmental gentrification works to ensure that the system works appropriately to promote redevelopment among the low income residents. Environmental gentrification is viewed to serve various purposes or example to promote properness in the political realm, to ensure a consensus based planning based for social and ecological sensitiveness and to lessen profit-minded development. The plan has faced several contradictions hindering the implementation of those plans. Those contradictions are featured in cities globally, as economic disparity increases while municipal leaders strive to promote sustainability. For instance to plant a million trees in the streets by 2030 which contradicts with the city’s redevelopment initiatives that sanctioned large scale developments hence destroying many trees. It also planned to promote biking development which contradicts with the development of a car base project. It would important if this process employs a new way on how to explore the inconsistencies and challenges faced by the modern urban residents as they continue preventing the increased economic and ecological disparities that are causing divisions in today’s cities. From the article, we can conclude that, as the environmental activists work to achieve their objectives, they are limited by other redevelopment initiatives in the cities.