ABSTRACT

In shrinking cities, commercial district decline has mirrored other patterns of depopulation and deindustrialization. Uneven development has emerged as the prevailing spatial pattern for shrinking cities in recent decades. Cleveland’s Storefront Renovation Program (SRP) is a local historic preservation-based strategy focused on improving commercial corridors. In this paper, we investigate whether the urban geography of the SRP aligns with theories of uneven development in shrinking cities. Using address-level data of projects and investments from 1983 to 2016, we analyze the spatial distribution using hot spot analysis, the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, and a neighborhood typology. Overall, we find the SRP program moderately contributed to uneven development, and increasingly so in recent decades, with clear clusters of investment in gentrifying neighborhoods and downtown Cleveland, while also supporting reinvestment in White, working-class areas early in its history.

摘要

在不断萎缩的城市中，商业区的衰落反映了人口减少和去工业化的其他模式。近几十年来，发展不平衡已成为收缩城市的普遍空间格局。克利夫兰的店面改造计划 (SRP) 是一项以当地历史保护为基础的战略，重点是改善商业走廊。在本文中，我们研究了 SRP 的城市地理是否符合收缩城市发展不平衡的理论。使用 1983 年至 2016 年项目和投资的地址级数据，我们使用热点分析、赫芬达尔-赫希曼指数和邻里类型学来分析空间分布。总体而言，我们发现 SRP 计划在一定程度上导致了发展不平衡，而且近几十年来情况越来越严重，