Nina Olney is a current PhD student in Sociology, studying how notions of land vacancy and productivity change in the afterlives of adaptive reuse projects. Nina's previous MA thesis also drew on Brandi Summers’ theory of “black aesthetic emplacement” to examine the way that urban policy and governance--specifically related to street trees--draws on racialized notions of urban green space to enable environmental gentrification. With a background in economics and sustainable architecture, Nina approaches these research questions with a mix of qualitative and critical spatial methodology in order to better understand the spatial logics of dispossession and cycles of de/revaluation related to urban greening.