Smart Growth and Housing Affordability

Addison, Carey; Coomes, Bradley

doi:10.1177/0885412212471563

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“…Others have addressed location attributes, for example, TOD "in established communities" (Goodwill and Hendricks 2002), in inner cities (Hess and Lombardi 2004), in California (Parker 2001(Parker , 2004. Recent literature review articles have focused on discrete relationships between TOD and employment (Belzer et al 2011), TOD and property values (Addison, Zhang, and Coomes 2013;Bartholomew and Ewing 2011;Park, Huang, and Newman 2016), and more recently, TOD and affordable housing (Bostic et al 2018). Meanwhile, scholars seem to indicate different understandings of TOD issues and opportunities, with varying levels of emphasis on compact urban development, greater transit use, land revenue generation, environmental sustainability, or place-making, for example.…”

Section: An Extensive Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

Jamme

Rodríguez

Bahl

et al. 2019

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban design idea of transit-oriented development (TOD) extended the land use and transportation nexus. This review article offers a twenty-five-year retrospective of TOD literature, shaped by disciplinary, policy, and practice predilections. Although the “D” in TOD stands for the encompassing notion of “development,” most literature focused on land development in particular. Meanwhile, sustainable or community development ideas languished, and other Ds such as Density, Diversity, and Design served as an operational framework for outcome-based research. We conclude by urging renewed focus in TOD research on the original goal of developing inclusive and sustainable communities.

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Section: An Extensive Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

Jamme

Rodríguez

Bahl

et al. 2019

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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“…However, these principles can have negative side effects for low-income households if not properly designed. Anti-sprawl policies are criticized for pushing up housing prices, with subsequent displacement of low-income residents, (105) a process referred to as "environmental gentrification". (106) Densification may also curtail access to (well-maintained) public facilities, or reduce open and green space.…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate change, equity and the Sustainable Development Goals: an urban perspective

Reckien¹,

Creutzig²,

Fernandez³

et al. 2017

Environment and Urbanization

194

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Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of urbanization. As urban areas house highly diverse people with differing vulnerabilities, intensifying climate change is likely to shift the focus of discussions from a general urban perspective to who in cities will be affected by climate change, and how. This brings the urban equity question to the forefront. Here we assess how climate change events may amplify urban inequity. We find that heatwaves, but also flooding, landslides, and even mitigation and adaptation measures, affect specific population groups more than others. As underlying sensitivity factors we consistently identify socioeconomic status and gender. We synthesize the findings with regard to equity types-meaning outcomebased, process-oriented and context-related equity-and suggest solutions for avoiding increased equity and justice concerns as a result of climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation.

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“…In fact, these groups turned out to be vulnerable and negatively affected by sustainability planning and brownfield restoration funded by PlaNYC (Pearsall, 2010;Checker, 2011). Other projects aiming at, for example, compact development (or 'smart growth') also pose a threat to the housing affordability and bring a question of how to change the neighbourhood so that the most socially vulnerable groups would not be displaced (Addison, Zhang, Coomes, 2013). It is such a paradoxical situation when green amenities introduced in the course of sustainability and greening agendas have a negative impact on the already distressed communities that they were supposed to serve.…”

Section: Ecological Gentrification As Part Of Environmental Justice Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Justice in the Context of Urban Green Space Availability

Koprowska

2020

Folia Oeconomica

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Environmental justice is a term that includes both exposure to environmental ‘bads’ as well as access to environmental ‘goods’ which might be unequally experienced by different socio‑economic groups. In other words, environmental justice scholars study whether everybody can have an equal right to a healthy, nurturing environment which supports their development and well‑being. The environmental justice movement arose in response to the so‑called ‘environmental racism’ in the USA which affected communities of blue‑collar workers, people with lower income and of Afro‑American, Asian, Latin or native origins. Although initially environmental (in)justice was rooted in racial discrimination in the USA, nowadays it encompasses a wider range of issues, including problems at the local and global level, from degradation and pollution of natural resources to aspects related to spatial planning. Unequal access to environmental amenities – such as green spaces – was not the main focus of the discourse, however, it is gaining attention nowadays, especially in the context of urban environment. Urban green spaces influence health and well‑being of urban residents, but access to them can be uneven in terms of socio‑spatial heterogeneity. Growing challenges of living in cities, related to, among others, climate change, densification or sprawling of developments, urban heat islands, and other nuisances, require sustainable management of green spaces and provision of equal (socially just) access to benefits provided by these areas. Moreover, another important aspect of the discussion is linked to potentially beneficial planning decisions (e.g. increasing availability of urban green spaces) and their long‑term consequences, which may eventually lead to gentrification and increased social inequalities (environmental injustice). Complexity of the problem related to availability of green spaces in cities needs an interdisciplinary approach which combines ecological, spatial and socio‑economic aspects. The article reviews the current state‑of‑the‑art literature in the field of environmental justice, with particular emphasis on green space availability in the context of urban environment.

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Smart Growth and Housing Affordability

Cited by 41 publications

References 52 publications

A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

A Twenty-Five-Year Biography of the TOD Concept: From Design to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

Climate change, equity and the Sustainable Development Goals: an urban perspective

Environmental Justice in the Context of Urban Green Space Availability

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