Jennifer Foster is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Canada.

This book offers original theoretical and empirical insight into the social, cultural and ecological politics of rapidly changing urban spaces such as old factories, rail yards, verges, dumps and quarries. For students and researchers of Urban Planning, Ecological Design, Landscape Architecture, Urban Geography.

1. Introduction 2. Conceptualizing urban post-industrial urban greenspace 3. The Menomonee Valley: Milwaukee, USA 4. La Petite Ceinture: Paris, France 5. The Leslie Street Spit: Toronto, Canada 6. Conclusions