How,then,can urban ecologists,planners,and designers address this green space paradox?
Apromising approach is to design in terventions that are‘just green enough’ (Curran & Hamilton, 2012). In their case study
of Green point, a community in Brooklyn, Curran and Hamilton found that working-class residents and gentrifiers collaborated to demand environmental cleanup strategies that allowed for continued industrial uses and preservation of blue-collar work, and explicitly avoided what they term the“parks,cafes,and a river walk” model of a green city(p.1028).The“just green enough”strategy targeted toxic creek clean up and green space development along
the creek near the existing working-class population and industrial land users, to address both environmental and social justice, and to avoid new rounds of speculative development. Similarly, Pearsall (2010)studied three New York neighborhoods,concluding that environmental gentrification is multidimensional, context specific, and cross-scale; in certain local contexts, residents can become resilient, resist displacement, and remain in communities whose environments have improved as a result of public and private investments.