Urban Redevelopment with Justice Implications: The Role of Social Justice and Social Capital in Residential Relocation Decisions

Abstract

Using recent residential redevelopment projects in South Korea, relocation decisions were investigated with respect to social justice, social capital, and various urban spatial attributes at individual, neighborhood, and community levels. Drawing on previous social justice theory, a spatial multilevel analysis using both primary and secondary data was employed to measure community attributes that reflected social justice, social capital, social services, environmental, and economic characteristics. Results suggest that relationships with neighbors in the redevelopment project lead to a lower likelihood of relocation. These empirical findings are intended to inform policy makers interested in the perspectives of residents who are potentially displaced by public and private redevelopment efforts.

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“… 1. Considering the period since 2000, the issue of just cities has been discussed for instance by Visser (2001), Cardoso and Breda-Vázquez (2007), Thomas (2008), Irázabal (2009), Irazábal and Punja (2009), Dooling (2009), Pavel (2009), King (2011), Fincher and Iveson (2012), Steele et al (2012), Winkler (2012), Castán Broto et al (2013), Chung (2013), Talen (2013), Alfasi and Fenster (2014), Reardon and Dymén (2015), Song (2015), Basta (2016), Low and Iveson (2016), Davison (2017), Pierce and Martin (2017), Perry and Atherton (2017), Uitermark and Nicholls (2017), Williams (2017), Grooms and Frimpong Boamah (2018), Jonkman and Janssen-Jansen (2018), Larson (2018), Medved (2018), Reece (2018), Hyra et al (2019) and Kim et al (2019). Several authors have resumed discussion of the more general relationship between geography and questions of justice: for example, Smith (2000), Valentine (2003), Barnett (2011), Storper (2011) and Israel and Frenkel (2018). …”

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