A Typology of Mansionization in the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000–2015

Charles, Suzanne Lanyi

doi:10.1080/10511482.2018.1469528

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“…Using these six variables, we divided the study area into grid cells and conducted a cluster analysis to delineate the landscape characteristics which help to explain the presence of UHI. Cluster analysis has been widely used for classification of digital images and allows us to reduce a large number of observations to a small set of similar groups to better understand the nature of landscape characteristics [43]. The clustering enables us to examine the effectiveness of mitigation strategies at distinct landscape features.…”

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confidence: 99%

Nature-Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: The Efficacy of Green Infrastructure Treatments in Portland, Oregon

2019

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Urban heat is a growing environmental concern in cities around the world. The urban heat island effect, combined with warming effects of climate change, is likely to cause an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events. Alterations to the physical, built environment are a viable option for mitigating urban heat, yet few studies provide systematic guidance to practitioners for adapting diverse land uses. In this study, we examine the use of green infrastructure treatments to evaluate changes in ambient temperatures across diverse land uses in the city of Portland, Oregon. We apply ENVI-met® microclimate modeling at the city-block scale specifically to determine what built environment characteristics are most associated with high temperatures, and the extent to which different physical designs reduce ambient temperature. The analysis included six green infrastructure interventions modeled across six different land-use types, and indicated the varying degrees to which approaches are effective. Results were inconsistent across landscapes, and showed that one mitigation solution alone would not significantly reduce extreme heat. These results can be used to develop targeted, climate- and landscape-specific cooling interventions for different land uses, which can help to inform and refine current guidance to achieve urban climate adaptation goals.

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Section: Cluster Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature-Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: The Efficacy of Green Infrastructure Treatments in Portland, Oregon

2019

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“…Since the k-means approach requires specifying the number of clusters to be created, we intend to identify four-to-seven types to be able to provide meaningful names for the software-generated clusters. Such ballpark of types can be found in several studies (Charles, 2018 ; Hajrasouliha & Hamidi, 2017 ; Hanlon, 2009 ; Ribant & Chen, 2020 ; Sarzynski et al, 2014 ; Vicino et al, 2011 ). However, some have a higher number of types—eight (Owens, 2012 ) or ten (Mikelbank, 2004 ).…”

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“…A typological analysis has been used for studying urban phenomena, morphologies, and processes such as sprawl categories (Sarzynski et al, 2014 ) or the spatial structure of employment in U.S. metropolises (Hajrasouliha & Hamidi, 2017 ). Typologies with smaller geographies comprising metropolises include shrinking cities (Ribant & Chen, 2020 ), suburbs (Mikelbank, 2004 ), inner-ring suburbs (Charles, 2018 ; Hanlon, 2009 ), immigrant neighborhoods (Vicino et al, 2011 ), and neighborhoods experiencing socioeconomic ascent (Owens, 2012 ).…”

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A typology of U.S. metropolises by rent burden and its major drivers

Samarin

Sharma

2023

GeoJournal

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Scholarly work on rent burden, a rather scantily discussed topic within the broader realm of declining housing affordability, still lacks a firm theory. This article seeks to address this gap by developing a typology of U.S. metropolises which centers on their rent burden status and serves as an initial step toward theory building. We employ principal component and cluster analyses to identify seven distinct types of metropolises and their potential drivers of rent burden. An examination of these seven types suggests that rent burden has spatial randomness to it, since some metropolises in the seven types do not confine to specific geographies. Metropolises with pronounced specializations in education/medicine, information, and arts, recreation, and entertainment exhibit higher rent burden, whereas older Rust Belt metropolises have lower burden. Interestingly, emerging new-economy metropolises exhibit lower rent burden as well, likely reflecting the benefits of newer housing and a diverse economic base. Finally, rent burden, besides being an outcome of the housing demand/supply mismatch, is also a manifestation of income potentials that are affected in complex ways by local labor markets and regional economic specializations.

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“…Changes in the built environment are one expression. At one extreme, we see the “mansionization” of older neighborhoods as smaller homes are torn down to make for way newer, larger structures (Charles, 2018; Durkin, 2005; Szold, 2005). Gentrifiers may also restore or rebuild structures “to reflect their own imaginings and tastes,” as observed in London's Peckham neighborhood, where middle‐class residents campaigned to restore Victorian architecture evocative of the area's affluent past (Benson & Jackson, 2013, p. 801).…”

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“…Gentrifiers may also restore or rebuild structures “to reflect their own imaginings and tastes,” as observed in London's Peckham neighborhood, where middle‐class residents campaigned to restore Victorian architecture evocative of the area's affluent past (Benson & Jackson, 2013, p. 801). In other cases, affluent newcomers express little appreciation for the character associated with the neighborhoods into which they move, favoring tear‐downs, mega‐basements, glass boxes, and elements associated with a global, cosmopolitan aesthetic (Baldwin et al., 2019; Burrows & Knowles, 2019; Charles, 2018; Lung‐Amam, 2013; Podagrosi et al., 2011; Webber & Burrows, 2016). Subtler changes matter, too.…”

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On place and privilege: Varieties of affluence in cities and neighborhoods

Paulsen

Stuber

2022

Sociology Compass

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Affluent people have long used places, including residential areas and their associated commercial districts and public spaces, as markers of class status. In doing so, they have often sought places that are homogeneous in terms class, and often race/ethnicity, and sought to preserve elite enclaves through a variety of policies and practices. But as we detail here, affluent people are now drawn to different types of residential settings, and their presence influences these places in sometimes surprising ways. In this essay, we review both exclusionary forms of affluent placemaking and more complex and varied forms emerging in gentrifying and super-gentrifying places. There, the strategies that affluent residents use to create and preserve places have become more varied, as have the relationships between place and class status. These more nuanced understandings of class and place reflects scholars' heightened interest in the cultural dimensions of social class, intersections of race and class, and attention to the ways in which class and affluence reflect and influence the political context.

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A Typology of Mansionization in the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000–2015

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Nature-Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: The Efficacy of Green Infrastructure Treatments in Portland, Oregon

Nature-Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: The Efficacy of Green Infrastructure Treatments in Portland, Oregon

A typology of U.S. metropolises by rent burden and its major drivers

On place and privilege: Varieties of affluence in cities and neighborhoods

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