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What Drives Displacement? Involuntary Mobility and the Faces of Gentrification City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Kevin Beck, Isaac William Martin
Recent quantitative studies on the relationship between gentrification and residential displacement have produced inconsistent findings. We examine whether these differences may be attributed to variation in the conceptualization and measurement of gentrification by testing a variety of different operational definitions of gentrification while holding data sources and other methodological decisions
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Making the Case: Exploring the Role of Case Management in Relocation and Return Decisions in Choice Neighborhoods Initiative City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Yung Chun, Jason Jabbari, Andrew Foell, Pranav Nandan, Yi Chen, Michal Grinstein-Weiss
Leveraging novel case management data, we present the first comprehensive investigation into the role of case management services in housing relocation and return decisions within the framework of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), the current place-based public housing revitalization program. Our study employs multinomial logistic (MNL) regression models to demonstrate that a higher level
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Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Nima Dahir, Jackelyn Hwang
Property owners play pivotal roles in the trajectories of neighborhoods with discretion over upkeep, residential turnover, and affordability. Yet, little is known about how and why the racial composition of ownership changes over time relative to residents within a neighborhood and, in turn, how this relates to the neighborhood’s change and stability. With a self-constructed dataset of all residential
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Mended Windows, Not Broken Windows: A Du Boisian Analysis of Urban Policing City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Theresa Rocha Beardall, Rahim Kurwa, Demar F. Lewis
This study draws from W.E.B. Du Bois’ urban sociology in The Philadelphia Negro, Darkwater, and Black Reconstruction in America to offer a conceptual foil to present-day broken windows policing. We suggest that the Chicago School’s ecological model of urban life facilitated a broken windows approach to policing by labeling people and places as disordered but also that a Du Boisian approach—what we
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Book Review: Joseph C. Ewoodzie, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Analena Hope Hassberg
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“Broken Home”: (De)constructing the Moral Standards of Mobility for Atlanta’s Early Black Public Housing Families City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Akira Drake Rodriguez, Prentiss A. Dantzler
The public housing program was designed as a stepping-stone into upward socioeconomic mobility when the first developments were constructed for White and Black households in the 1930s. White residents were able to save and move into private housing with greater speed than Black residents, who faced both external and internal constraints on their socioeconomic status. As a result of this decreased mobility
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Book Review: Albert S. Fu, Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Louise Seamster
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Building a Du Boisian Research Agenda on Gentrification City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 AJ Golio
The study of gentrification has traditionally found its theoretical roots among the debates between production- and consumption-focused scholars, lending the field a heavily class-based focus. Despite some sociological inquiry into gentrification as an urban process that is also racialized, there are several crucial gaps within this line of inquiry. I here argue that a research agenda inspired by the
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“I Just Had to Go With It Once I Got There”: Inequality, Housing, and School Re-optimization City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Stefanie DeLuca, Jennifer Darrah-Okike, Kiara Millay Nerenberg
Residential segregation by race and class is a durable form of inequality. Yet, we know less about how the unequal sorting of families into neighborhoods and schools occurs. Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 156 families, we examine whether residential and school decisions are connected and how they differ by household income. We find that, for higher-income families, residential decisions
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“I Can’t Afford to Move”: Negotiating Neglect and Apartment Disrepair in Los Angeles City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Steven Schmidt
Sociologists have shown how displacement reproduces inequality among U.S. renters. Less is known about the experiences of renters prior to displacement, or how the trade-offs that renters adopt to avoid moves also stratify families. This article addresses this gap by examining how renters with few housing alternatives manage landlord neglect in routine maintenance. Using interviews with 131 non-Hispanic
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“You’re Really Stuck”: Housing Strategies and Compromises in the San Francisco Bay Area City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Sigrid Luhr
Over the past decade, housing prices in many regions of the United States have increased precipitously. This is especially true in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region that has experienced an influx of highly paid tech workers and a tightening of the housing market. Against this backdrop, this article examines the strategies and compromises that a racially and socioeconomically diverse group of Bay
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Renters’ Experiences with Maintenance Delays in the United States City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Steven Schmidt
Structural racism and individual discrimination contribute to racial inequalities in poor housing conditions in the United States. Less is known about whether and how structural racism and individual discrimination shape a parallel, but distinct, process that is also consequential for family wellbeing: experiencing housing unit maintenance delays. Maintenance delays transform acute problems into chronic
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Routine Dilapidation: How Homeownership Creates Environmental Injustice City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Robin Bartram
This article draws on interviews with homeowners who have applied for home repair programs in Chicago and New Orleans to investigate how home repairs, and the lack thereof, shape residential and fi...
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Somebody to Lean On: Community Ties, Social Exchange, and Practical Help during the COVID-19 Pandemic City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Martin Horak, Shanaya Vanhooren
During a community-wide crisis, practical help from others in the community can allow individuals to manage a variety of extraordinary household needs. In this article, we synthesize insights from ...
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Parks, People, and Pollution: A Relational Study of Socioenvironmental Succession City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Jonathan Tollefson, Scott Frickel, Summer Gonsalves, Thomas Marlow
The urban environmental inequality literature holds that marginalized communities are generally concentrated in neighborhoods with greater levels of industrial pollution and lesser access to parks ...
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Navigating an Overburdened Courtroom: How Inconsistent Rules, Shadow Procedures, and Social Capital Disadvantage Tenants in Eviction Court City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Isaiah Fleming-Klink, Brian J. McCabe, Eva Rosen
Landlords and tenants in eviction court navigate a complex legal and administrative process. Eviction courts are overburdened and under pressure to process enormous numbers of cases each day. From ...
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Pandemic Poverty Governance: Neoliberalism under Crisis City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Devin Collins, Katherine Beckett, Marco Brydolf-Horwitz
Prevailing theories of poverty governance emphasize how political and economic constraints associated with urban neoliberalism have led to the retraction of protective welfare commitments and an in...
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Contested Infrastructures: Water, Privatization, and Place-Based Protest in Greater Buenos Aires City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Maria Akchurin
Activists opposing urban water privatization often continue organizing even after water infrastructure returns to the public sector. Why? Analyzing water privatization and renationalization in Grea...
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“You Have to Prove that You’re Homeless”: Vulnerability and Gatekeeping in Public Housing Prioritization Policies City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Nathalie Rita, Philip M.E. Garboden, Jennifer Darrah-Okike
Building on theories of symbolic boundaries, this article explores the role of the state as gatekeeper to social programs, such as public housing. Using interviews with 75 randomly sampled househol...
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Making Urban Futures at Your Kitchen Table: Temporalities of an Urban Renewal Controversy in Moscow City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Anna Zhelnina
While the nexus of time and space in cities is an established tradition in urban research, the specific temporality of urban planning and redevelopment projects is an emerging theme in the field. F...
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Community Neighboring Norms and the Prevalence and Management of Private Neighbor Problems City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Renee Zahnow, Lynda Cheshire
Neighbor relations are informal social ties that constitute part of everyday urban life. While the benefits of neighborliness are well established, less is known about the manifestation of private ...
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“Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional”: “Colorblind” Cops and the Enactment of Spatial Racism in Routine Policing City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Nikki Jones, Kenly Brown, Eduardo Bautista Duran, Kaily Heitz, Jasmine Kelekay, Gil Rothschild Elyassi, Geoffrey Raymond
In this article, we show how routine policing is conscripted into the project of maintaining and reproducing spatial racism in urban settings through an intersecting set of macro-level processes an...
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Guyanese Immigration, Homeownership, and Crime in Schenectady, NY: 2000–2017 City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Tyler S. Bellick, Michael S. Barton, Samantha Friedman, Matthew Douglas
The immigrant-crime relationship remains among the most intensely debated and contentious public policy concerns. In contrast to hypotheses under social disorganization theory and consistent with h...
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Affordable Regulation: New York City Rent Stabilization as Housing Affordability Policy City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Kasey Zapatka, Juliana de Castro Galvao
The growing housing affordability crisis is at the center of conversations about U.S. inequality. This paper reconsiders the role of rent stabilization as one important affordability tool. We inves...
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Community Social Capital, Racial Diversity, and Philanthropic Resource Mobilization in the Time of a Pandemic City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Hyunseok Hwang, Young-joo Lee
Using the county-level data of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the United States, we test the relationship between communities’ social capital and philanthropic resource mobilization during a pandemic an...
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Know It When You See It? The Qualities of the Communities People Describe as “Diverse” (or Not) City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Maria Abascal, Flavien Ganter
We explore what people mean by “diversity” when they use the term to describe real communities. “Diversity” can refer to multiple differences—ethnoracial, economic, and so on. It may also refer to ...
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Capitalizing on Heritage: St. Augustine, Florida, and the Landscape of American Racial Ideology City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Camille Petersen
Drawing on Black and Indigenous intellectual traditions, this article applies racial capitalism and settler colonialism as twin frameworks essential for understanding gentrification in a city whose...
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Introduction: What Does Racial Capitalism Have to Do With Cities and Communities? City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Prentiss Dantzler, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Junia Howell
Social scientists have long debated whether racial inequality is an unfortunate consequence of political and economic exploitation or a core feature of capitalism. In 1983, Cedric Robinson synthesi...
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Book Review: Rocio Rosales, Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Emir Estrada
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Book Review: Carwil Bjork-James, The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Ida Nikou
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“I Hate That Food Lion”: Grocery Shopping, Racial Capitalism, and Everyday Disinvestment City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Sarah Mayorga, Megan Underhill, Lauren Crosser
Using interview data from three mixed-income neighborhoods—one predominantly white and two multiracial neighborhoods—we find that an overwhelming majority of white, middle-class respondents did not...
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Race and Space in the Postcolony: A Relational Study on Urban Planning Under Racial Capitalism in Brazil and South Africa City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Lorena Melgaço, Luana Xavier Pinto Coelho
This article analyzes two planned cities—Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Bloemfontein (South Africa)—to investigate connectivities across geographies and temporalities and reveal the role of urban plan...
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Circling the Herd: Houston’s Black Trail Riders, Placemaking, and the Liberatory Potential of Second Sites City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Leah Binkovitz
Recent scholarship on Black placemaking challenges the deficit framework of urban sociology. At the same time, more sociologists are now pushing for the recovery of long marginalized Black thinkers...
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Remaking Resilience: A Material Approach to the Production of Disaster Space City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Daniel A. Shtob
Resilience remains central to disaster preparedness and planning regimes in our changing world. It has been condemned as a meaningless buzzword, yet also recognized as a tool of neoliberalism with meaningful consequences. To address this central contradiction in this approach to environmental risk reduction—and to better understand inequality formation—I propose an alternative conceptualization of
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Editorial Introduction: Happy Birthday City & Community! City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Richard E. Ocejo
This issue, our 81st, marks the 20th anniversary of City & Community’s first one, back in March 2002. As Anthony Orum, the journal’s first Editor, wrote in the Inaugural Editorial of that first issue, the hope of launching City & Community was “to publish in these pages the best theory and research on the city.” Simple yet complex, like the best things in life. We have succeeded as a journal in publishing
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City Power in the Age of Silicon Valley: Evaluating Municipal Regulatory Response to the Entry of Uber to the American City City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Andrew Wolf
This article recasts the debate over the employment status of gig economy workers as a question about the power of municipal governance. Gig employers are challenging urban regulatory regimes through their disavowal of an employment relationship and their refusal to obtain taxi licenses. As the recent literature argues, there has been a resurgence of municipal power driven by a labor-antipoverty coalition
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Urban Mediatization and Planetary Gentrification: The Rise and Fall of a Favela across Media Platforms City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark
We are today increasingly experiencing the city through interfaces of platforms like Google Maps, Instagram, TripAdvisor, Airbnb, and Yelp. As our very sense of the city is shaped by these technological interfaces, the media are acquiring a constitutive role in reshaping contemporary urbanity. To conceptualize how media represent urban change, this paper draws on media studies and particularly the
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Family and Friends Living Nearby, Neighborhood Satisfaction, and Residential Mobility City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Brian Joseph Gillespie
This study draws on panel data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (N = 1,128) to examine whether and how family and friends living close-by are associated with individuals’ interneighborhood residential mobility. Additional analyses tap into why individuals’ proportion of nearby kin and friends are linked to their mobility. The results suggest that individuals’ perceptions of their
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A Downside of Increasing Human Capital: The Role of Higher Education in Poverty Segregation in U.S. Cities City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Bryant Crubaugh, Benjamin Le, Maggie Wood
City administrations often work hard to attract or retain college-educated residents. Research has consistently demonstrated that increased education in a city is associated with beneficial outcomes, making cities’ efforts to recruit and retain college-educated individuals logical. However, we challenge the notion that rising rates of education is a universal positive by investigating a potential downside
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The Place of Greening: Comparing Civic Engagement Scenes of Urban Natures across Danish Cities City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Anders Blok, Amanda K. Juvik1, Anna Helene Grothe-Møller, Jonas Skjold Raaschou-Pedersen, Jakob Laage-Thomsen
As elsewhere in Europe, cities in Denmark have witnessed a surge in civic urban nature engagement, such as place- and practice-based initiatives (e.g., public-access community gardens, organic food collectives, and grazing associations that enhance biodiversity). While this expansion of urban green communities, as we call them, is widely noted in the literature, less attention has been paid to the
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Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that gentrification always occurs in spaces defined by both class and race. In this article, I use the lens of racial capitalism to theorize gentrification as a racialized, profit-accumulating process, integrating the perspective that
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Eyes on the Screen: Digital Interclass Coalitions against Crime in a Gentrifying Rural Town City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Sebastián F. Villamizar-Santamaría
According to the theories of social disorganization and collective efficacy, population heterogeneity contributes to the erosion of social ties and the increase in crime. I test that assumption through an in-person and digital ethnography in La Calera, a rural area in Colombia undergoing population change through gentrification and facing increasing burglaries, cattle theft, and other crimes. I argue
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Residential Segregation under Jim Crow: Whites, Blacks, and Mulattoes in Southern Cities, 1880–1920 City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Isabelle R. Notter, John R. Logan
We study the residential patterns of blacks and mulattoes in 10 Southern cities in 1880 and 1920. Researchers have documented the salience of social differences among African Americans in this period, partly related to mulattoes’ higher occupational status. Did these differences result in clustering of these two groups in different neighborhoods, and were mulattoes less separated from whites? If so
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Book Review: Patrick Inglis, Narrow Fairways: Getting by & Falling Behind in the New India City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Michael Levien
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Book Review: Jacob Lederman, Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Xuefei Ren
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Book Review: Michael Ian Borer, Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Daniel Silver
Cities are more than places to live, work, or mobilize political or social movements— though they are all of these things. That they are also host to myriad local scenes that infuse urban experience with opportunities for shared enjoyments has only become more evident since 2020 as access to them has been severely reduced due to public health restrictions on public sociability. If a 300-page book about
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Book Review: Sharon Zukin, The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech and the New Economy City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Jennifer Clark
The book meaningfully contributes to urban theory by engaging with multiple theoretical traditions. In the realm of political economy, for instance, Lederman acknowledges the neoliberal orientation of city officials but also highlights the effort— even among the most business-oriented city leaders—to celebrate local culture and heritage. Channeling postcolonial skepticism, he questions the limited
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Development, Responsibility, and the Creation of Urban Hazard Risk City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Timothy J. Haney
Scholarly attention has recently shifted to the creation and redevelopment of urban hazardscapes. This body of work demonstrates how housing is deployed in close proximity to hazards, and how the attendant risks have been communicated—or not—to potential residents. Utilizing the case of Calgary, Alberta, this article uses interview data collected from flood-impacted residents, and looks at their perceptions
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Book Review: Andrew Deener, The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Krishnendu Ray
British architect and urban planner Carolyn Steel (2008) argues that it was grain, transported over waterways, that made the ancient city and it was meat delivered along railroads that built the industrial one (p. 34). William Cronon (1992) famously showed us the role of grain, lumber, and meat in the making of Chicago. Deener’s argument could be summarized as the remaking of the late-modern American
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Book Review: John MacDonald, Charles Branas, and Robert Stokes, Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Gordon C. C. Douglas
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Book Review: Miguel A. Martinez, Squatters in the Capitalist City: Housing, Justice, and Urban Politics City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-28 Claire W. Herbert
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The Costs of Seeking Shelter for Renters With Discrediting Background Records City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Anna Reosti
This study illuminates an understudied pathway through which disadvantage is reproduced in the rental housing market: the housing search, application, and tenant screening process. Using in-depth interviews with 25 housing-seekers with criminal conviction records, past evictions, and damaged credit histories, this article examines the direct role of the rental housing search and application process
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Book Review: Victoria Reyes, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Ryan Centner
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An Agentic Approach to Food Access and Acquisition: The Case of Mixed Neighborhoods in the Paris Metropolis City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Coline Ferrant
How do urban residents access and acquire food? Building on the food desert scholarship, I propose an agentic framework and fieldwork in two mixed neighborhoods (one gentrifying, one working-class suburban) in the Paris metropolis. First- and second-generation immigrants perceive the metropolis as a rich and diverse food environment, whereas natives perceive their neighborhood of residence as a food-deficient
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The Effect of Household Debt and Wealth on Subsequent Housing Tenure Choice City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 D. Augustus Anderson, Hye-Sung Han, John Hisnanick
The purchase of a home is the largest investment made by most American families, and home equity is the largest component of family wealth. Scholars have long documented the social and economic merits of homeownership and explored the factors that influence access to it. However, despite the abundance of literature on homeownership and housing tenure choice, we lack a study that focuses on whether
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Public Strategies for the Promotion of Urban Art: The Lisbon Metropolitan Area Case City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Ricardo Campos, Leda Barbio
Urban art has emerged as a new feature of cities in recent decades. Its wide success as a fresh, youthful, and cosmopolitan artistic movement has elicited the attention of urban planners, who increasingly use it in their strategies for urban development. This artistic expression has been understood as a resource to be used in urban and cultural policymaking, especially when it comes to urban reassessment
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Differentiating Participation: Identifying and Defining Civic Capacities Used by Latino Immigrants in Participatory Budgeting City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 José W. Meléndez,Maria Martinez-Cosio
Participatory planning has faced challenges engaging predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrants beyond the bottom rungs of Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation. Participating at any level of the ladder requires individual civic skills, or capacities, that are integral to participatory processes. However, the specific skills necessary for collective action are less certain, due in part to a lack
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Book Review: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Valerie E. Stahl
If simplified, twentieth-century United States housing policy could be boiled down to two intersecting principles: the federal government’s facilitation of homeownership through Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans, and the systematic exclusion of people of color, particularly of African Americans, from accessing such programs. Housing and community development scholars are all too familiar with
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Book Review: Emir Estrada, Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Eric Macias,Joanna Dreby
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Weapons of the Strong: Elite Resistance and the Neo-Apartheid City City & Community (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Benjamin H. Bradlow
Transitions to democracy promise equal political power. But political ruptures carry no guarantee that democracy can overcome the accumulated inequalities of history. In South Africa, the transition to democracy shifted power from a racial minority in ways that suggested an unusually high probability of material change. This article analyzes the limits of public power after democratic transitions.