{"id":15116,"date":"2015-03-02T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/geography\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=15116"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:24","slug":"dges-founders-seminar-presents-dr-sarah-knuth","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/event\/dges-founders-seminar-presents-dr-sarah-knuth\/","title":{"rendered":"DGES Founders Seminar Presents Dr. Sarah Knuth"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<h2 id=\"the-department-of-geography-and-environmental-studies-presents\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Presents:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarah Knuth,&nbsp;Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seeing Green: Speculative Urbanism in the Green Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<br>\n<\/strong>As cities face global environmental change and other 21<sup>st<\/sup> century transformations, scholars must ask how neoliberal era urban restructuring has, and has not, equipped them for the epochal challenges of achieving sustainability and resilience. The research presented here examines San Francisco\u2019s green building and retrofitting efforts after the 2008 financial collapse as a window into how neoliberal developments continue to shape the character and priorities of early 21<sup>st<\/sup> century greening. During the Great Recession, San Francisco joined many other cities, the US government, and other powerful national economies in articulating ambitious visions of \u201cgreen\u201d economic recovery, an ecological modernist vision for the production of technologically advanced manufacturing jobs in renewable energy, energy efficient materials, and other environmental industries. The actual experience of green development has been far more mixed. The talk argues that today\u2019s green economic \u201csuccess stories\u201d like San Francisco\u2019s green building boom since 2008 demonstrate the ongoing influence of neoliberal processes, and how green urbanism is rearticulating them: inter-urban competition; the ongoing financialization of real estate development and the local state; the deepening, yet highly uneven, globalization of real estate development; and, critically, the creation and financialization of markets for novel kinds of \u201cnatural capital.\u201d Even as new urban financial experimentation and speculative real estate development promise badly needed resources for climate change mitigation needs like the rebuilding of energy-intensive urban landscapes, this mode of city-(re)building threatens to make greening increasingly exclusionary and volatile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-15116","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2015-03-10T11:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2015-03-10T13:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"Loeb A220","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"null","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Natalia Fierro Marquez","cu_event_email":"natalia.fierromarquez@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=15116"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=15116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}