How to Green Without Gentrifying

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Green gentrification is the idea that redevelopment, property values, and the shifting of populations happen often when new green infrastructure comes. The challenge is how do you let those that have lived around and have suffered not having this improvement? How do you let them stay? According to Diane, there's one critical point: community participation.

As the planet warms, and intense heatwaves become the norm, our urban environments need a radical rethink to keep them habitable. So what do we want the cities of the future to look like? In the first of our special series of episodes looking at what a future world could look like, Madeleine Finlay speaks to author and historian Ben Wilson, Prof Jessica Davies and Prof Diane Jones Allen about how to create cities that are fairer, greener and more self-reliant.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod