IN-PERSON London. Section B

Abstract

Climate gentrification theory predicts shifting development patterns toward areas of lower risk and accompanying shifts in property values. Climate resilience and land use policy may further incentivize development in these areas, sometimes historically underinvested neighborhoods and/or ethnic enclaves. The full impact of potential displacement may be underestimated, particularly in terms of social costs. This critical discourse analysis interrogates history, ideology, and power to reveal structural obstacles to a democratic planning process and equitable outcomes. The analysis investigates policy and planning as a climate gentrification pathway. It centers voices of protest and poetry in an immigrant community responding to (renewed) relocation pressures, both economic and cultural. In Miami, Florida, regional resilience strategies urge building on higher ground due to sea level rise impacts. In addition, a zoning mechanism designed to attract largescale investment led to approval of a $1 billion mixed-use development in an underinvested neighborhood, despite community resistance. So, communities such as Little Haiti continue a history of displacement and segregation against a backdrop of housing scarcity and economic disparity. The ideology of resilience strives to prepare for, recover from, or more successfully adapt to adverse events. Yet resilience strategies on the regional scale undermine resilience at the community level through economic, geographic, and social destabilization and ongoing marginalization. Planning mechanisms that enhance the central business district generate uneven consequences in historically underinvested areas. The case highlights resilience policy and planning insights for cities facing housing affordability and climate challenges.