The relative importance of greening in attracting gentrifiers to urban Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods
通过调查温哥华市区和卡尔加里郊区104户迁入新开发社区的家庭，发现绿化因素（如靠近绿地）与安全、景观等非绿化因素重要性相当，且对市区和郊区居民的影响相似，表明绿化并非唯一驱动高收入家庭迁入的因素。
Green gentrification describes how greening neighbourhoods (e.g. by creating parks, community gardens, etc.) can result in higher-income households moving in and displacing/excluding marginalised residents. While some researchers assert that greening attracts higher-income households, this has rarely been empirically tested. Further, green gentrification research has focussed almost exclusively on greening attracting households to urban neighbourhoods, despite desire for more green space often being cited as motivating households to move to suburbs . Our study surveyed 104 households in gentrified downtown Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods, to determine the relative importance of neighbourhood greenness and proximity to green space when they were deciding to move into new-build neighbourhoods. Our results indicate that green factors are of similar importance to non-green factors, such as safety, scenic views, ambience and, in Vancouver, proximity to entertainment and transit. Proximity to green space was more important than overall neighbourhood greenness. Residents in all neighbourhoods placed similar importance on green factors, although more importance was placed on private green space in the suburbs. These findings suggest that neighbourhood greenness and proximity to green space are not the only factors driving high-income households to move in and that green factors have played a similar role in motivating households to move to urban and suburban neighbourhoods. Thus, green-gentrification research needs to consider how preference for greened neighbourhoods intersects with other preferences/constraints to ultimately influence residential location choices. It also needs to widen the geography of green gentrification to understand how greening contributes to exclusion and displacement beyond dense city environments.