Abstract space, social space, and the redevelopment of public housing

Gotham, Kevin Fox; Shefner, Jon; Brumley, Krista M.

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“…In the struggle to resolve these contradictions, social space and its use value are often damaged to protect abstract space and its exchange value. For example, in a redevelopment of a public housing project in New Orleans, Gotham, Shefner, and Brumley (2001) explore the conflictual relationships that exist among stakeholders striving to control the space. While local policy makers assumed residents would support a redevelopment project, the residents defended these social spaces, which were full of significant social and symbolic capital (for more discussion on the meaning of public housing, see also Motley and Perry 2013 [in this issue]).…”

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“…The way that consumers perceive, conceive of, and live in their space can broaden or narrow their repertoire for social action (Soja 1989). Social spaces in the community are not only containers of social action but also important political sites of struggle that affect human agency (Gotham, Shefner, and Brumley 2001). We present this critical spatial theory to encourage researchers to foreground spatial issues, thoroughly conceptualize space, and implicate space in our understanding of social exclusion and inclusion.…”

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A Critical Spatial Approach to Marketplace Exclusion and Inclusion

Saatçioğlu

Ozanne

2013

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

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The authors apply insights from critical spatial theory to explore how space can be reimagined to be more inclusive. The meaning of spaces includes (1) objective physical space, (2) subjective imagined space, and (3) lived space used by consumers. The authors discuss several cases in which different social actors (i.e., consumers, marketers, businesses, and policy makers) exert various forms of agency to achieve power and control in the social space and maximize different goals. They also highlight how critical spatial theories can be extended by marketing researchers. Businesses sometimes have more diverse interests than merely profit maximization and can consider a wider array of other stakeholders' interests to ensure the long-term survival of the firm. Finally, the authors examine implications for public policy. They point out the usefulness of a critical spatial perspective in such areas as affordable housing, inclusive and democratic retail space development, spatial segregation, and suburban sprawl.

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A Critical Spatial Approach to Marketplace Exclusion and Inclusion

Saatçioğlu

Ozanne

2013

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

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“…However, government response has resulted in the increased involvement of the private sector, ineffective management practices, spatial isolation of tenants, inadequate funding for maintenance of existing housing stock, and a reduction in housing options (Goetz, 2000;Gotham, Shefner, & Brumley, 2001). This has adversely impacted groups of older adults with limited support networks who need government intervention to successfully obtain and retain affordable housing.…”

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Aging in (Privatized) Places: Subsidized Housing Policy and Seniors

McFadden

Lucio

2014

Journal of Housing For the Elderly

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“…A new function assigned for the urban space (planned abstract space) suggested by administrators or investors developed in contrast with the opinions of people living in that urban space and their use of urban space (social space). This contradiction is effective in the embodiment, development and transformation of today's cities as well (Gotham, Shefner, and Brumley, 2001). In today's cities, we see the transformative power of globalization and neo-liberal economy policies affecting the whole world for almost last 40 years.…”

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City, Urban Transformation and the Right to the City

Sadri

2020

JCUA

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We are living in an age of planetary urbanization (Brenner and Schmid, 2011), and some of the problems that today's cities encounter are unprecedented in history of urbanization. According to Brenner and Schmid, what we understood as city and urban has shifted in scale and function within the last 30 years. New mega-urban regions in several parts of the world started to emerge, swallowing their peripheries, rearticulating both geographically and functionally what used to be former city centers and hinterlands and eradicating nature and wildlife (Brenner and Schmid, 2011). The number of megacities with a population of ten million or more inhabitants has shifted from 10 to 28 between the years 1990 and 2014, and it is expected to rise up to 41 in 2030 (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2015). According to the World Urbanization Prospects report of United Nations, one of the most important problems of this fast urban growth and expansion is the increase in world urban population. The percentage of the world's population living in urban areas increased from 30% in 1950s to 54% in 2014. The same report predicts that the world urban population will rise up to 66% of the whole world population by 2050 (United Nations,

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Abstract space, social space, and the redevelopment of public housing

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

A Critical Spatial Approach to Marketplace Exclusion and Inclusion

A Critical Spatial Approach to Marketplace Exclusion and Inclusion

Aging in (Privatized) Places: Subsidized Housing Policy and Seniors

City, Urban Transformation and the Right to the City

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