Corporately Sponsored Redevelopment Campaigns and the Demographic Stability of Urban Neighborhoods: St. Louis Re-Revisited

Monti, Daniel J.; Burghoff, Daniel

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9906.2012.00617.x

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“…Despite widespread decline, however, St. Louis has experienced rebounding population and development in some neighborhoods (Daniel J. Monti & Burghoff, 2012;Goodman & Monti, 1999;Swanstrom, Webber, & Metzger, 2015). The benefits of redevelopment have not been evenly distributed (Mallach, 2018;, in part because of the ways in which development has been subsidized with tax abatements (Goshorn, 1999;Metzger & Webber, 2018;Reinert, 2001).…”

Section: Economic Decline and Revitalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Finding the City in Sociology: Broadening and Deepening the Geographic Scope of the Urban and Inequality Literatures

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2020

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Cities have long been the object of fascination within sociology. Key portions of sociological literatures on inequality and globalization, for instance, have focused on urban spaces as essential sites for the production and reproduction of social life, and urban sociology itself is one of the oldest fields in the discipline. For all of this prominence, however, locating the city itself in these literatures can be difficult. Much of our understanding of urban life and urban social problems is derived from a relatively small number of American cities. Moreover, cities are often relegated to a supporting role as a research site rather than an institution worthy of interrogation. This article reviews the path that has brought a specific set of cities to the fore of American sociological analyses. In response, broadening literatures to cities in the literal and figurative American South and producing deeper literatures of specific cities can give sociology the opportunity to produce more representative and contextually rich analyses of inequalities, urban social life, and urban form. The literature on St. Louis, Missouri, is presented as an example of what such a broader and deeper literature could encompass.

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Section: Economic Decline and Revitalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Finding the City in Sociology: Broadening and Deepening the Geographic Scope of the Urban and Inequality Literatures

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2020

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St. Louis’s “urban prairie”: Vacant land and the potential for revitalization

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Braswell

Monti

2018

Journal of Urban Affairs

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As part of a larger project to understand the relative health and disorder of St. Louis City neighborhoods, this paper presents estimates of the number of vacant parcels in the city. These estimates, which are considerably higher than previously published ones, are heavily concentrated in the city's disinvested and segregated North side. We term this heavy concentration of vacancy as "urban prairie". After accounting for other factors as well as possible sources of statistical error, we identify both long-term population loss since 1970 and the proportion of African American residents as significant covariates associated with the amount of urban prairie land per neighborhood. These high levels of concentrated vacancy lead us to critique the City's existing approaches as being too limited in scope, and to suggest a range of possibilities for revitalizing portions of North St. Louis while allowing prairie land to continue to exist in others.

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The potential of community entrepreneurship for neighbourhood revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States

Varady

Kleinhans

Ham

2015

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy

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Purpose -The global economic crisis has had a major impact on government spending for urban regeneration. In the context of these austerity regimes, in many European countries, community entrepreneurship and active citizenship are increasingly considered as a means to continue small-scale urban revitalisation. This paper investigates recent literature on both British community enterprises (CEs) and American community development corporations (CDCs). The aim is to assess the current potential of community entrepreneurship in neighbourhood revitalization in the United States and the United Kingdom. Design/methodology/approach -Starting from a seminal article, this paper reviews literature focusing on the role of CEs and CDCs in neighbourhood revitalization. Differences and similarities are analysed, taking into account national context differences. Findings -While CDCs have a relatively successful record in affordable housing production in distressed areas, CDCs are fundamentally limited in terms of reversing processes of community decline. CEs in the UK have focused on non-housing issues. Research limitations/implications -This paper asks the question what CEs can learn fromCDCs in terms of scope, aims, strategies, accountability, assets and partnerships with public and private actors. However, a systematic literature review has not been conducted. Originality/value -Our comparison reveals similarities but also differences with regard to aims, organizational characteristics, co-operation on multiple scales, and community participation. Apart from lessons that can be learned, we provide recommendations for further research that should cover the lack of empirical evidence in this field.

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Corporately Sponsored Redevelopment Campaigns and the Demographic Stability of Urban Neighborhoods: St. Louis Re-Revisited

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Finding the City in Sociology: Broadening and Deepening the Geographic Scope of the Urban and Inequality Literatures

Finding the City in Sociology: Broadening and Deepening the Geographic Scope of the Urban and Inequality Literatures

St. Louis’s “urban prairie”: Vacant land and the potential for revitalization

The potential of community entrepreneurship for neighbourhood revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States

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