“…During this period, SHDI and SIDI increased from 0.37 to 0.60 and 0.33 to 0.41, respectively, from 1984 to 2022, suggesting that the built-up area in Bulawayo was becoming more prosperous and more even over the years. These results are consistent with a study conducted in Tennessee in Memphis that analysed urban sprawl and blight using similar methods, which revealed that the values were increasing due to sprawl [ 52 ]. Fig.…”
“…During this period, SHDI and SIDI increased from 0.37 to 0.60 and 0.33 to 0.41, respectively, from 1984 to 2022, suggesting that the built-up area in Bulawayo was becoming more prosperous and more even over the years. These results are consistent with a study conducted in Tennessee in Memphis that analysed urban sprawl and blight using similar methods, which revealed that the values were increasing due to sprawl [ 52 ]. Fig.…”
“…Concomitantly, community revitalization challenges the neighborhood unit, revealing strengths and limitations. The inner-city blight provides an impetus to look beyond the neighborhood to the metropolitan region as a whole (Downs 1973; Ross and Leigh [22]; Calthorpe and Fulton [5]; Banai and Ploderer [23]; Banai, Antipova, and Momeni; Banai and Momeni [24]). The neighborhood unit's fundamental limitation is posed by its cellular autonomy, in favor of alternatives that connect the neighborhood to the metropolitan region's jobs-housing-services-mobility opportunity holistically.…”
Section: Community Revitalization and The Neighborhood Unitmentioning
Community revitalization is a complex, multifaceted process, studied conceptually and empirically in the vast multidisciplinary literature. Among the cited elements of community revitalization are housing; school, civic, and retail spaces; street networks; parks; and green spaces. However, the elements are commonly studied in isolation, not considering their interrelated qualities as all-of-a-piece of the community revitalization process. In this paper, we draw on the concept of the neighborhood unit that facilities a holistic approach to community revitalization. We show how the neighborhood unit is metamorphosed and thereby endured from the classic to the contemporary. We argue that the neighborhood unit informs, as well as being challenged by, community revitalization. Furthermore, inadequate attention is given to how urban revitalization challenges the efficacy of the neighborhood unit itself. The inner-city blight provides an impetus to look beyond the neighborhood to the metropolitan region as a whole. The neighborhood unit’s fundamental limitation is posed by its cellular autonomy, in favor of alternatives that connect the neighborhood to the metropolitan region’s jobs–housing–services–mobility opportunity holistically. Our literature review of the impactful elements of community revitalization is aided by AI (ChatGPT) as an expeditious search engine. It is found that the AI-aided search of the universal poses anew the significance of the particular—the site- and context-specific. We conclude with) universal “performance dimensions” of Good City Form that are calibrated locally, reflecting the goodness of the city form, of which the neighborhood is a building block.
“…From the literature on urban sprawl and its corollary blight (for a discussion of the vicious, blightsprawl circle, see Antipova et al 2022b), we excerpt the interrelationship of industrial blight and the socio-economic characteristics in cities. This literature is inclusive of the metropolitan region's spatial units of observation of the variables and their interrelationships, from downtown, the inner city, the suburb, or the metropolitan area as a whole.…”
Section: A Brief Review Of the Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Blight has become a major issue in Shelby County, and the City of Memphis, since 2015. Therefore, the city and the county officials developed various anti-blight programs mostly on an individual basis by demolishing or improving individual houses (Antipova et al 2022b). Fig.…”
Section: Study Area Data and Data Preparationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the historic urban form that located housing near industry for employed residents' convenient and affordable access, and industrial sites near major roads for optimum regional access provides clues to look for the neighborhood and industrial jobs as elements of an open urban system or connected network of housing-jobsaccess. The manifestation and spatial distribution of blight are different in different urban areas, due to the city-specific contexts and empirical analyses (Antipova et al 2022b). Fig.…”
Historically, industry shaped the space-economy of the American city, a major source of employment opportunity for residents that selected housing nearby or within a convenient or affordable commuting distance. However, the contemporary American city is structurally characterized by abandoned, blighted, vacant industrial properties due to urban expansion, deindustrialization and the suburbanization of both jobs and population. The urban studies literature rarely documents the neighborhood impact of industrial blight akin to studies of residential blight. We determine the proximity-effect of industrial blight on the neighborhood thought of not as an isolated and closed entity, but as a connected and open entity within the city and the region. Unlike studies confined to the property value impact, we determine Pearson correlations of industrial blight and vacancy expansively with the socio-economic and physical characteristics of neighborhoods. We use path analysis to determine direct, indirect, and total neighborhood impact of industrial blight and vacancy. The census block group and parcel-level geographic information system (GIS) provide our principal sources of data. The block group geography contains the neighborhood as a fundamental spatial unit. We determine how the neighborhood impact varies with distance from the blighted, vacant industrial property.
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