Isabelle Anguelovski is the director of BCNUEJ (Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability) and an ICREA researcher at ICTA-UAB (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
This interview took place in January 2026.
Interview by Gaia Pilia
Video edition by Luiza Perrone
How do environmental changes reshape urban desirability and, in turn, drive gentrification?
In this conversation, Isabelle Anguelovski traces the evolving links between environmental transformation and displacement, moving from green to eco-, climate-, and heat-gentrification. Anguelovskis research suggests that the gentrifying effects of climate change can be anticipated by examining vulnerability, by looking at exposure and capacity of mitigation.
Isabelle Anguelovski is the director of BCNUEJ (Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability) and an ICREA researcher at ICTA-UAB (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
This interview took place in January 2026.
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