Feeding the green gentrification machine: urban agriculture and the barriers to a just ecological transition in Montréal, Québec

As cities embrace urban greening, the impacts of sustainability initiatives are uneven, and research on progressive urban governments highlights barriers to meaningful structural change. This paper examines Montréal under the leadership of Projet Montréal, a party widely perceived as progressive and environmentally oriented, to analyze how urban agriculture can contribute to green gentrification. Drawing on interviews with planners, developers, and community actors, as well as discourse anal...