Are patterns of vacant lots random? Evidence from empirical spatiotemporal analysis in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo

Usui, Hachiro; Perez, Joan

doi:10.1177/2399808320956656

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“…In some extreme cases, like in Japan, we witness a gradual concentration within the urban areas of vacant plots, a phenomenon called urban perforation. Researchers are increasingly working on the spatial logics behind these perforations (Usui, 2019; Usui and Perez, 2020). From this perspective, our protocol shall also be able to provide insights regarding the spatial patterns related to the appearance of vacant plots and/or buildings.…”

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Classification of residential buildings into spatial patterns of urban growth: A morpho-structural approach

Perez

Ornon

Usui

2020

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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This paper presents a methodological protocol that combines a structural and a morphological approach to classify residential buildings into spatial patterns of urban growth. Variography analysis is employed to endogenously detect thresholds of building agglomerations, subsequently used as distance parameters for series of morphological closings over the distribution of the building centroids. The different bounding regions ultimately allow classifying new residential buildings into different categories according to their degrees of clustering/scattering and to their locations within/without existing urban structures and within/without recent urban sprawl. The protocol, developed for areas where suburbs tend to proliferate, is tested on a region in southern France using residential buildings in 2002, 2017, and those that appeared between these two dates. It successfully classified the new buildings into the following categories: “clustered infill urban densification”, “scattered infill urban densification”, “low-density edge-expansion”, “compact edge-expansion”, “low-density scattered urban development”, and “leapfrog urban development” thus showing that new residential buildings are not contributing to urban sprawl and development in a similar fashion. Open access is provided to the source code and to the test region data.

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Section: Discussion and Future Developmentsmentioning

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Classification of residential buildings into spatial patterns of urban growth: A morpho-structural approach

Perez

Ornon

Usui

2020

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…In shrinking cities, 'dedensification' causes an oversupply of housing and infrastructure, which changes the shelter system of Vacant buildings that lack maintenance and repair over long periods are often demolished, giving rise to large amounts of vacant lots in shrinking cities, which resulted in fragmented urban landscapes and large amounts of marginal land (land that is difficult to cultivate using industrial agricultural techniques) (Schwarz et al 2016). Furthermore, Usui and Perez (2022) found that once vacant land accumulates randomly in urban areas, the process tends to continue, shifting urban vacant land from random to cluster generation, which can lead to severe urban perforation.…”

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“…Guo and Li 2019). With population loss as the most visible manifestation, urban shrinkage is accompanied by a reduction in urban economic activity and tax revenues (Slach et al 2019, Kocur-Bera andSzuniewicz 2021), resulting in increased vacant buildings and open space, oversupply of infrastructure, and inefficient public services (Schilling and Logan 2008, Wang and Immergluck 2019, Usui and Perez 2022, which significantly change the urban built environment. Changes in the built environment will raise ecological and sustainability concerns, but this process is often overlooked in shrinking cities.…”

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Impacts of urban shrinkage on the built environment and its environmental sustainability: an analytical review

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Gao,

Guan

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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The proliferation of case studies of shrinking cities in recent years has stimulated intense debate on the impacts of urban shrinkage. However, assessing the impacts of urban shrinkage from a comprehensive perspective could be more present. Also, there is a lake of analytical review of historical studies about the impacts of urban shrinkage. The built environment has different characteristics under different urban development patterns involving infrastructure, services, and social, economic, and structural factors, which provides a best practice for exploring the impacts of urban shrinkage. This study synthesizes the literature surrounding urban shrinkage and built environment changes, identifying that urban shrinkage notably affects the different components of the built environment and gives rise to four related environmental and sustainability impacts involving urban landscapes and structures, ecological sustainability, socioeconomic vitality, and residents' perceptions. Furthermore, there are interactions between the environmental and sustainability impacts, involving trade-offs and synergies between residents' perceptions, ecological sustainability, and socioeconomic vitality. The study also summarized the mainstream methods for assessing the impacts of urban shrinkage and explored the effects of urban shrinkage management strategies on improving the built environment. Finally, a framework for future direction is presented for the final to integrate the theories of urban shrinkage, people and land relationship, and sustainable urban development to guide further exploration in the field. In summary, this study implies that restoring and upgrading the built environment can pave the way for a common goal for long-term sustainable development. The value of this study is to provide relevant researchers with the knowledge to understand the developing frontiers of urban shrinkage impacts on built environments.

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“…The spatial distribution of vacant and abandoned land is not always random but can have patterns (Usui and Perez, 2020). The geography of opportunity, a concept which presupposes that where individuals live affects their life outcomes and opportunities (Rosenbaum, 1995), it can be applied to the distribution of vacant and abandoned land across communities.…”

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Using neighborhood characteristics to predict vacancy types: Comparing multi-scale conditions surrounding existing vacant lots

Lee

Newman

Zandt

2023

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Vacant and abandoned land can be public eyesores that can potentially result in neighborhood distress in the long term. In some cases, the contextual conditions of a neighborhood have been shown to have more of a negative effect on communities than the vacant property itself. Maximum opportunities to actually reuse vacant and abandoned land is known to primarily exist in cases where the surrounding area has locational benefits or when local economic conditions are hopeful. This study examines and compares neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics around vacant lots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, to identify spatial heterogeneity within vacancy types and neighborhood characteristics. Specifically, we examine 1) if the socioeconomic characteristics of a neighborhood can predict existing vacant lots and 2) what neighborhood characteristics are associated with certain vacant lot types. Three logistic regressions were tested with different buffers around each vacant lot, and a total of eighteen regressions were performed to capture the effects on six vacancy types. Results suggest that there are various types of vacancies interacting differently at the neighborhood scale, and that a large-scale neighborhood context matters when predicting vacancy types. The results also indicate three salient points. First, minority populations are a strong predictor of residential and commercial vacancies. Second, high-income areas tend to predict vacancies with potential investment opportunities or vacancies as a part of an existing park or recreational system. Third, vacant properties designated for institutional land uses tend to be found in lower-income areas, yet, not necessarily in areas with high minority populations. Managing and repurposing vacant and abandoned land should be handled more progressively with a better understanding of the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods. Further, examining vacancy types by community can be a way to diagnose potential neighborhood risks associated with vacant and abandoned land.

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Are patterns of vacant lots random? Evidence from empirical spatiotemporal analysis in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo

Cited by 8 publications

References 47 publications

Classification of residential buildings into spatial patterns of urban growth: A morpho-structural approach

Classification of residential buildings into spatial patterns of urban growth: A morpho-structural approach

Impacts of urban shrinkage on the built environment and its environmental sustainability: an analytical review

Using neighborhood characteristics to predict vacancy types: Comparing multi-scale conditions surrounding existing vacant lots

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