Toxic City

Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco

Lindsey Dillon

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University of California Press
09 April 2024

Social discrimination; Urban communities; Conservation of the environment; Social impact of environmental issues; Pollution control

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco. As cities across the United States clean up and transform contaminated waterfronts and abandoned factories into inviting spaces of urban nature and green living, working-class residents—who previously lived with the effects of state abandonment, corporate divestment, and industrial pollution—are threatened with displacement at the very moment these neighborhoods are cleaned, greened, and revitalized. Lindsey Dillon details how residents of Bayview-Hunters Point have fought for years for toxic cleanup and urban redevelopment to be a reparative process and how their efforts are linked to long-standing struggles for Black community control and self-determination. She argues that environmental racism is part of a long history of harm linked to slavery and its afterlives and concludes that environmental justice can be conceived within a larger project of reparations.

By: Lindsey Dillon
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520396227
ISBN 10: 0520396227
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: “I Want to Be Made Whole” 1. The Wastelanding of Southeast San Francisco 2. Black Counterplanning for a New Hunters Point 3. The Politics of Environmental Repair 4. The Dust of Redevelopment Conclusion: Reparative Environmental Justice Notes Bibliography Index

Lindsey Dillon is a critical human geographer and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.