Document Type
Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
Access to environmental amenities is distributed unevenly across urban areas, often due to discriminatory institutional practices such as redlining and racial covenants. Urban blue spaces (lakes, streams, rivers) can serve as either an environmental amenity or dis-amenity, depending on development and investment strategies. This paper explores how institutional racism, measured by variables such as historic redlining and racial covenant practices, shapes access to blue space as an amenity in the Twin Cities. Our results show that access to large, well-maintained, and well-invested blue space is distributed unevenly. Studying this relationship shows how cities continue to promote environmental injustice in interstitial spaces.
Recommended Citation
Pirone, Mara, "Blue Space as Amenity and Disamenity: Disparity in Interstitial Water Bodies" (2026). Geography Honors Projects. 86.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/geography_honors/86
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