This book asserts that post-industrial urban greenspaces are contested places where different individuals, groups, plants and animals negotiate power and presence. While the most powerful and dominant typically prevail, there are also instances where marginalized groups are able to outcompete and assert their existence in novel and creative ways.

This book was published as a special issue of Local Environment.

1. Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace: Justice, Quality of Life and Environmental Aesthetics in Rapidly Changing Urban Environments, 2. The Greening of Urban Post-Industrial Landscapes: Past Practices and Emerging Trends, 3. Environmental Gentrification in a Post-Industrial Landscape: The Case of the Limhamn Quarry, Malmö, Sweden, 4. Buried Localities: Archaeological Exploration of a Toronto Dump and Wilderness Refuge, 5. Re-Presenting Transgressive Ecologies: Post-Industrial Sites as Contested Terrains,

Jennifer Foster is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Coordinator of the Urban Ecologies program at York University. She is a Registered Professional Planner (RPP) with the Canadian Institute of Planners. Recent projects include the contemporary art exhibition Land|Slide: Possible Futures and the critical urban ecology study From Rubble to Refuge.

L. Anders Sandberg is a Professor and former Associate Dean in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. His two most recent books are The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles: Development, Sprawl and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region (2013) and Urban Trees, Forests, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective (2014).