Isabelle Anguelovski

Director

Isabelle is the director of BCNUEJ, an ICREA Research Professor, a Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at ICTA and coordinator of the research group Healthy Cities and Environmental Justice at IMIM. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Studies from Science Po Lille and a Master’s in International Development at the Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne, pursued a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management at Harvard University and obtained a PhD in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT before returning to Europe in 2011 with a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship.

As part of collaborative and individual international research projects, she studies how environmental injustice is materialized and contested. Currently, her focus is on four main research areas: 1) The politics of the green city as a growing global planning orthodoxy; 2) The social and racial manifestations and impacts of green gentrification for historically marginalized residents; 3) Urban planning for health and wellbeing, with a focus on health equity and justice; and 4) Justice and inclusivity in climate adaptation planning, including distributional and procedural insecurities produced by adaptation plans, interventions, and land use configurations and regulations.

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Keywords

  • Comparative urbanism
  • Urban planning
  • Environmental justice
  • Spatial Justice
  • Environmental Gentrification
  • Political Economy of Urban Development
  • Sustainability Planning
  • Vulnerability and Resilience in Climate Adaptation Planning
  • Food Justice and Sustainable Urban Food Systems
  • Healthy Cities and Healthy Communities

Affiliated Projects

Selected Publications

  • Anguelovski, I. and Pellow. D.N. 2020. “Towards an Emancipatory Urban Climate Justice Through Adaptation?” In Climate justice in a Climate-Changed World. Planning Theory and Practice.
  • Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J. JT, et al. 2020. “Expanding the boundaries of justice and equity in urban greening scholarship: Towards an emancipatory, intersectional, and interactional approach.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
  • Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J., Pearsall, H., Shokry, G., Checker, M., Maantay, J., Gould, K., Lewis, T. Maroko, A., and Roberts, J.T. 2019. “Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (52):26139-26143.
  • Anguelovski, I., Triguero-Mas, M, Connolly, J JT, Panagiota K., Shokry, G., Pérez del Pulgar C.,  Garcia-Lamarca, M.; Argüelles, L., Mangione, J., Dietz, K., Cole, H. 2019. “Gentrification and health in two global cities: A call to identify impacts for socially-vulnerable residents.” Cities and Health.
  • Anguelovski, I. Irázabal-Zurita, Cl. Connolly J.J.T. 2019. “Grabbed urban landscapes: Socio-spatial tensions in green infrastructure planning in Medellín.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 43 (1). 133-156.
  • Anguelovski, I. Connolly, J., Cole, H.V., Garcia-Lamarca, M., Pearsall, H. 2019. “New scholarly pathways on green gentrification: What does the urban ‘green turn’ mean and where is it going?” Progress in Human Geography. 43 (6). 1064-1086.
  • Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J., Masip, L., Pearsall, H. 2018. “Assessing environmental gentrification impacts of neighborhood greening in historically disenfranchised areas: A longitudinal and spatial analysis through the municipal area of Barcelona.” Urban Geography. 38 (3). 458-491.
  • Anguelovski, I., Connolly, J., Masip, L., Pearsall, H. 2018. “Assessing environmental gentrification impacts of neighborhood greening in historically disenfranchised areas: A longitudinal and spatial analysis through the municipal area of Barcelona.” Urban Geography. 38 (3). 458-491.