SAYING ‘ YES ’ TO WHAT ?: YIMBY and Urban Redevelopment in Chicago

Abstract Gentrification is no-longer, if it ever was, a small scale process of urban transformation. Gentrification globally is more often practised as large scale urban redevelopment. It is state-led or state-induced. The results are clear – the displacement and disenfranchisement of low income groups in favour of wealthier in-movers. So, why has gentrification come to dominate policy making worldwide and what can be done about it?

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URBAN DISPLACEMENT AND LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES: THE CASE OF THE AMERICAN CITY FROM THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAR ◽

10.26687/archnet-ijar.v10i2.936 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 06 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jason Knight ◽

Mohammad Gharipour

Keyword(s):

Urban Communities ◽

Low Income ◽

Urban Redevelopment ◽

Minority Populations ◽

The People ◽

History Of ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Cultural Connections ◽

American Cities ◽

Late Twentieth Century

How can urban redevelopment benefit existing low-income communities? The history of urban redevelopment is one of disruption of poor communities. Renewal historically offered benefits to the place while pushing out the people. In some cases, displacement is intentional, in others it is unintentional. Often, it is the byproduct of the quest for profits. Regardless of motives, traditional communities, defined by cultural connections, are often disrupted. Disadvantaged neighborhoods include vacant units, which diminish the community and hold back investment. In the postwar period, American cities entered into a program of urban renewal. While this program cleared blight, it also drove displacement among the cities’ poorest and was particularly hard on minority populations clustered in downtown slums. The consequences of these decisions continue to play out today. Concentration of poverty is increasing and American cities are becoming more segregated. As neighborhoods improve, poorer residents are uprooted and forced into even more distressed conditions, elsewhere. This paper examines the history of events impacting urban communities. It further reviews the successes and failures of efforts to benefit low-income communities.

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Urban Redevelopment ‘New Town Project’ and Religious Facilities in the Gangbuk area of Seoul

The Critical Review of Religion and Culture ◽

10.36429/crrc.38.2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. 52-96

Author(s):

Jung Yeon Yi

Keyword(s):

Urban Redevelopment ◽

New Town

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Navigating Ethnic Hierarchies in Community-Academic Partnerships: A Case Study on Koreatown Community Politics

10.36650/nexus16.1-2_153-179_chungchoisong ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (1-2) ◽

pp. 153-179

Author(s):

Angie Chung ◽

Johng Song ◽

Carolyn Choi

Keyword(s):

Executive Director ◽

Urban Redevelopment ◽

Pacific Rim ◽

Ethnic Communities ◽

Power Structures ◽

The Pacific ◽

Academic Partnerships ◽

Communities Of Interest ◽

The City

Based on the experiences of a Koreatown scholar, the executive director of a Koreatown nonprofit, and a longtime resident student, the article advocates for greater attention to the complex and dynamic power structures of ethnic enclaves in community-academic partnerships. We discuss the changing landscapes of Koreatown as the global nexus of the Pacific Rim economy, the city of Los Angeles’s urban redevelopment plans, and growing diversity and inequality. Programs that aim to engage effectively with ethnic communities must reassess how knowledge is produced and conveyed, how we structure partnerships within stratified communities, and how to grow from issue-based partnerships to broader communities of interest.

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A sustainable urban regeneration project to protect biodiversity

Urban Ecosystems ◽

10.1007/s11252-020-01084-1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Elvira Tarsitano ◽

Alba Giannoccaro Rosa ◽

Cecilia Posca ◽

Giovanni Petruzzi ◽

Michele Mundo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sense Of Belonging ◽

Social Economic ◽

Urban Redevelopment ◽

Cultural Value ◽

Natural Area ◽

Urban Image ◽

Natural Park ◽

Protected Natural Area ◽

The City

AbstractThe sustainable urban redevelopment project to protect biodiversity was developed to regenerate the external spaces of an ancient rural farmhouse, Villa Framarino, in the regional Natural Park of Lama Balice, a shallow erosive furrow (lama) rich in biodiversity, between two suburbs of the city of Bari (Apulia, Italy) and close to the city airport. This work includes a complex system of activities aimed not only at a spatial revaluation, necessary to relaunch the urban image, but it is accompanied by interventions of a cultural, social, economic, environmental and landscape nature, aimed at increasing the quality of life, in compliance with the principles of sustainability and social participation. One of the means to revitalize a territory subject to redevelopment is the planning of events and activities of socio-cultural value that involve the population to revive the sense of belonging to the territory and the community and at the same time to protect the biodiversity of the urban park of the protected natural area.

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