In through the back door: Social equity and regional governance

Bollens, Scott A.

doi:10.1080/10511482.2002.9521458

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“…We restrict our attention to responses to a regional tax to reduce traffic and sprawl in communities other than those of the respondents but in their cityregions. This allows us to gauge the strength of support for a form of cross-community sharing of resources that is perhaps least likely to create conflict but is commonly proposed for city-regions by scholars arguing for greater incorporation of regionalist ideas into political institutions (Bollens, 2003;Downs, 1994;Dreier et al, 2001;Orfield, 1997;Weir, 2000).…”

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“…competitiveness to environmental sustainability require citizens sharing the same city-region to think differently about their obligations to and behaviors towards one another (Bollens, 2003;Downs, 1973Downs, , 1994Frug, 2002;Heinelt & Kübler, 2005;Norris, 2001;Orfield, 1998;Swanstrom, 1996;Weir, 2000;). Third, better balancing of the political influences of class, race, and space and fostering greater equality of opportunities and outcomes in city-regions require advocacy coalitions and campaigns encouraging and mobilizing feelings and sentiments of regional regard, affinity, community, and citizenship (Orfield, 1998;Pastor, Benner, & Matsuoka, 2009;Pavel & Anthony, 2009;Weir, 2000;Weir, Holman, & Swanstrom, 2005).…”

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Regional or parochial? Support for cross-community sharing within city-regions

Owens

Sumner

2017

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Regional or parochial? Support for cross-community sharing within city-regions

Owens

Sumner

2017

Journal of Urban Affairs

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“…Does this mean that positive regional developments, either in terms of processes or outcomes, are not possible? One hopes that that is not the case, particularly since equity issues are often set aside as afterthoughts by more powerful and traditional regional actors, so community-based advocacy is key to putting social issues squarely on the metropolitan agenda (Bollens 2003; Lester and Reckhow 2013). How does conflict and advocacy fit into collaborative knowledge sharing-and when does it lead to inclusion becoming firmly rooted in the regional decision-making fabric?…”

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Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas

Benner

Pastor

2015

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“…However, Bollens' (Bollens 2002) finding that equity made its way into regional policies only "through the back door" is still relevant. Regional government agencies incorporate equity into their work mostly in response to federal and state programs and funding opportunities that explicitly or indirectly serve to increase social equity in air quality, civil rights, fair housing, and poverty reduction, among other policy areas (Bollens 2002). In other words, it takes a top-down mandate or incentive, usually on a seemingly separate issue (hence the issue coming in through the "back door" rather than directly), to provide an opening for equity advocates and regional agencies to cooperate.…”

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Collaboration and Equity in Regional Sustainability Planning in California: Challenges in Implementation

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Chapple²,

Mattiuzzi³

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Regions across the United States have developed sustainability plans and programs funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI). The SCI program was an experiment in regional sustainability planning in which grantees received federal awards in 2010 or 2011, with HUD providing funding and technical assistance to grantees through 2015. HUD designed the program to increase cooperation between regional actors whose activities, such as housing, transportation, and economic development, typically occur in different policy "silos." The program promoted the incorporation of social equity frameworks and metrics into economic and environmental sustainability-related activities, areas in which there are benefits to taking a regional approach.The HUD-SCI program provides an opportunity to assess how regions incorporate equity into plans and inform the next generation of regional planning. California is a particularly interesting site for assessing the success of the HUD-SCI program in promoting regional cooperation and social equity because of SB 375, a state law mandating regional sustainability planning. This paper assesses the variation across regions within California in incorporating social equity into HUD-SCI grant planning activities. It does this by presenting three case studies of the role of social equity in regional sustainability planning in the Sacramento metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Fresno region of the Central Valley.This paper fills a gap in the sustainability governance literature by providing insight into how equitable the regional sustainability planning process is. The urban design literature on sustainability is largely prescriptive (Calthorpe and Fulton 2001), proposing compact urban form without assessing how agencies with varied responsibilities in regions incorporate equity into sustainability plans (Berke and Conroy 2000; Jepson and Edwards 2010). The literature on regional planning is largely descriptive, explaining the conditions under which regional agencies can cooperate to achieve regional goals, with or without federal incentives (e.g., Seltzer and Carbonell 2011). Regional equity scholarship, with its strong focus on social movements, would benefit from a better understanding of the planning and governance processes that these movements seek to shape (Pastor, Benner, and Matsuoka 2009). The inherent tensions in balancing the three Es, equity, environment, and the economy (Campbell 1996), with competing stakeholder perspectives and interests, complicates regional sustainability planning.2 Despite these challenges, many are optimistic about the future of regional sustainability planning (Chapin 2012;Chapple 2014). Regional sustainability planning is an opportunity to accommodate growth through compact development, while avoiding the socially inequitable outcomes of past federally subsidized projects of urban renewal and suburbanization (Chapin 2012). Chapin calls for more nuanced research on the po...

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In through the back door: Social equity and regional governance

Cited by 38 publications

References 22 publications

Regional or parochial? Support for cross-community sharing within city-regions

Regional or parochial? Support for cross-community sharing within city-regions

Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas

Collaboration and Equity in Regional Sustainability Planning in California: Challenges in Implementation

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