Public Problems: The Management of Urban Distress

Michael Dear; Christopher J. Smith

doi:10.2307/215533

Public Problems: The Management of Urban Distress

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers ◽

10.2307/622701 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 381

Author(s):

David T. Herbert ◽

Christopher J. Smith

Keyword(s):

Urban Distress

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Beijing: The Heart of China, Imperial and Modern. Passport Books; Public Problems. The Management of Urban Distress. Christopher J. Smith; Neighborhood Tokyo. Theodore C. Bestor

Urban Geography ◽

10.2747/0272-3638.11.1.103 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 103-106

Author(s):

Arthur J. Krim ◽

Glenda Laws ◽

Roman Cybriwsky

Keyword(s):

Urban Distress

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Review: Rebuilding Construction: Economic Change and the British Construction Industry, Male Order: Unwrapping Masculinity, Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages, Public Problems: The Management of Urban Distress, Land Use Planning and the Mediation of Urban Change: The British Planning System in Practice

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d070491 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 491-498

Author(s):

M Pryke ◽

S Oliver ◽

D Cosgrove ◽

D Sibley ◽

A Hooper

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Construction Industry ◽

Urban Design ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Planning System ◽

New Towns ◽

Late Middle Ages ◽

Urban Distress ◽

British Planning

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Ejidos, Urbanization, and the Production of Inequality in Formerly Agricultural Lands, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1975–2020

Land ◽

10.3390/land9120526 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (12) ◽

pp. 526

Author(s):

Leonardo Barleta ◽

Mateo Carrillo ◽

Zephyr Frank ◽

Erik Steiner

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Urban Expansion ◽

Central Place ◽

Visual Appearance ◽

Agricultural Communities ◽

Temporal Process ◽

Urban Periphery ◽

Mexican Government ◽

Urban Distress

The ejido is an institution of communal land tenure and governance administered by the Mexican government. This paper assesses the current visual appearance of landscapes and implicit land use in ejidal lands on the periphery of Guadalajara, Mexico, using Google Street View (GSV) images tagged for signs of urban distress. Distressed landscapes are associated with the temporal process of urban expansion—newer settlements tend to be more visibly impoverished. Concentrations of vulnerable housing are correlated with encroached-upon ejidal lands in a process that was underway by the 1970s, well before Mexico’s neoliberal turn. Ejidos on the urban periphery, created to support agricultural communities during Mexico’s radical period of agrarian reform, are now sites of urban sprawl and impoverishment. Nevertheless, these communities remain legally salient as federal entities with respect to the disposition of land. Their presence complicates the historical evolution of land use in the urban periphery in ways that do not fit into classical central place models. We conclude that the presence of ejidos is associated with rapid and chaotic urbanization by migrants and the loss of agricultural capacity in Guadalajara’s periphery.

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