Landscape of DiscontentOn a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins dole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard fought, decadelong protest movement in a low income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayors vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers. Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research