“We Roll our Sleeves up and get to Work!”: Portraits of Collective Action and Neighborhood Change in Atlanta's West End

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742110278
Author(s):  
Andrew Foell ◽  
Kirk A. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Action Dynamics ◽  
Community Issues

Collective action is one strategy urban neighborhood residents use to address community issues. However, collective action dynamics in rapidly changing urban neighborhoods are not well understood. This study used photovoice to examine perspectives on collective action and neighborhood change among residents of an urban neighborhood experiencing redevelopment in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Residents indicated that place attachment motivated and reinforced participation in collective action efforts to address neighborhood issues and to reconstruct narratives that challenged place stigmatization. Findings suggest that residents have heterogeneous perspectives about neighborhood change and local development, and simultaneously balance desires for neighborhood improvement with concerns about displacement, gentrification, and equitable development.

scholarly journals Collective action problems and the role of South African business in national and regional accords

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoli Nattrass
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
South African ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Local Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Collective Action Problems ◽  
Incomes Policy

This article examines some of the collective action problems which beset South African business in national and regional accords. The first part concludes that incomes policy type accords at national level are unlikely to be successful in South Africa. The main part of the article considers accords at subnational level where conflicts of interest are more easily (but not entirely) resolved. This is done by means of two case studies of business acting collectively to promote regional or local development. The first looks at the role of organized business in the Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council (ECSECC). It is suggested that the geographical divide between the various business organizations undermines the potential for collective action. The second describes the more successful local housing accord which was negotiated in Port Elizabeth.

Gown, Town, and Neighborhood Change: An Examination of Urban Neighborhoods with University Revitalization Efforts

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meagan M. Ehlenz
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Socioeconomic Change ◽  
National Trends

Universities are expanding their missions to encompass neighborhoods and revitalization strategies, yet there is an inadequate understanding of how targeted neighborhoods have changed. This study combines institutional survey data with 1990 and 2010 Census metrics to examine twenty-two neighborhoods with university revitalization initiatives. It explores market and socioeconomic change for target tracts relative to their regions, finding significant positive changes in target tract median home and rent values. The research suggests universities use revitalization efforts to respond to place-based deficits and, in doing so, align their neighborhoods with concurrent national trends toward growing enrollment and urban revitalization.

scholarly journals Effect of Urban Poverty on Parents’ Expectation of their Children’s Achievement

10.18060/106 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanta Pandey ◽  
Min Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
Parental Expectation ◽  
Children's Achievement ◽  
Success Indicators ◽  
First Job

In this study we examine if parents’ expectation of their children’s success in life varies by type of urban neighborhood. Do parents’ expectations of their children’s educational achievement and age at which their offspring may start their first job, marry and have children vary by type of urban neighborhood in which they reside? Analysis of data taken from inner city Chicago indicates that residents in urban neighborhoods varied in their demography, ethnic status, marital status, labor force participation, earnings ability, welfare dependency and asset holdings. Parental expectation of their offspring’s educational achievement and age at which offspring may begin working or marry, however, did not vary by type of neighborhood. Expected age at which their children may have kids, however, did vary by type of neighborhood. Actual first child’s success indicators were also similar across types of neighborhood. This study shows that parents’ expectations for their children’s achievement are largely independent of the poverty level of the urban neighborhood in which they reside. The findings also challenge the validity of the culture of poverty theory.

scholarly journals Place Attachment and Collective Action Tendency

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Jaśkiewicz ◽  
Tomasz Besta
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Active Form ◽  
The Third ◽  
Action Tendency ◽  
Action Tendencies ◽  
Attachment Place

Three studies were carried out to examine how place attachment and collective action tendency are related and what role self-expansion and social interactions play in this relationship. In the first study (N = 156) we found that a more active form of attachment – place discovered – is a significant predictor of tendency to engage in collective action in favor of one’s neighborhood. In the second study (N = 197), we focused on frequency of social interactions in one’s neighborhood as the antecedent of place attachment and collective action tendencies. We found that inhabitants who declared more frequent social interactions in one’s neighborhood, expressed stronger place discovered, and this attachment is related to collective action tendencies. In the third study (N = 153), we tested if self-expansion mediates this relationship. We found that stronger place discovered was related to the feeling of self-expansion that resulted from contact with neighbors. Moreover, self-expansion was related to the tendency to engage in collective action.

scholarly journals Changing context of walking behaviour: Impacts of movement restrictions in the urban neighbourhoods coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aynaz Lotfata ◽  
Aysegul Gemci ◽  
Bahar ferah
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Walking Behavior ◽  
Neighborhood Walkability ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Research Findings

Recent theoretical and empirical urban planning studies suggest that the availability of daily amenities, such as shopping stores, health care units, education services, pharmacies, within a 15-20-minute walking distance can keep daily life flux and also bring physical activities to individuals coping with the movement limitations of lockdowns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This paper focuses on the relationship between neighborhood walkability and the changing walking behavior of 514 individuals during these lockdowns. The spatial context of this relationship highlights three main urban design aspects of the novel and innovative urban neighborhood planning: walkable access, spatial proximity, and social cohesion. This study demonstrates how restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic affect the walking behaviors of the individuals, within 15-20 minute walkable and non-walkable neighborhoods located in different socio-economic geographies from American, European, Asian, Western Pacific, African, and Eastern Mediterranean cities. The discussion section of the methodology is supported by a survey questionnaire conducted in 24 disparate neighborhoods. Our data obtained from survey questionnaires is indicating that lockdown restrictions during the Pandemic influenced the walking purpose. Research findings also reflect limitations during the Pandemic complicate individuals’ requiring access to amenities in urban neighborhoods. With a nod to future studies on this topic, this paper proposes a basic framework as well as a thematic analysis with superimposed polar matrix charts.

scholarly journals The Intangible Cultural Landscape of the Banda Primitiva de Llíria

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-99
Author(s):  
Virginia Santamarina-Campos ◽  
José Luis Gasent-Blesa ◽  
Pau Alcocer-Torres ◽  
Mª Ángeles Carabal-Montagud
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Shared Culture ◽  
Valencian Region

AbstractThe Banda Primitiva de Llíria is presented as an open heritage resource, which has been built on the uses, values and symbols assigned to it by the local town of Llíria and its inhabitants over the musical society’s two centuries of history. This work focuses on analysing how this musical phenomenon contributes to positioning creativity and cultural industries at the centre of local development, reinforcing the identity elements of Llíria and the Valencian Region. It intends to support the safeguarding, respect and awareness of one of the oldest civic bands in Spain, providing greater visibility and creating positive recognition of the fundamental importance of this form of intangible cultural heritage for social cohesion and development, in an environment that is transformed into one of collective action, shared culture and creativity.

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