Establishing Ground: Representing gender and race in a mixed housing development

Breitbart, Myrna Margulies; Pader, Ellen-J.

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“…By and large, the new residents in the mixed‐income Orchard Gardens development did not provide the social benefits that are often implied by the concentrated poverty literature. This finding builds upon previous studies of mixed‐income housing settings that find limited interaction among residents (Rosenbaum et al, 1991; Pader and Breitbart, 1993; Breitbart and Pader, 1995; Hogan, 1996; Brophy and Smith, 1997; Rosenbaum, Stroh, and Flynn, 1998) and variation between groups in the level of neighboring (Kleit, 2005) by examining other social processes that may be affected by increasing the presence of higher‐income neighbors. The newcomers did act in ways that reinforced community norms of work, but their public actions were not dramatically different than the longer‐term residents, in part because of changes in management policy and practice following redevelopment and in part because of the shallow nature of the development's income mix.…”

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“…Most existing research has focused on one particular component of these social dynamics: the creation and use of social ties. While residents share the same physical neighborhood space, the amount of social mixing and interaction between income groups tends to be relatively modest (Rosenbaum et al, 1991; Pader and Breitbart, 1993; Breitbart and Pader, 1995; Hogan, 1996; Brophy and Smith, 1997; Rosenbaum, Stroh, and Flynn, 1998; Buron et al, 2002; Kleit, 2005). In a detailed study of the racially and ethnically diverse NewHolly HOPE VI development in Seattle, Kleit (2005) found that homeowners and public housing residents were more involved in the community and attended community events more frequently than tax credit renters.…”

Section: Neighborhood Redevelopment Studiesmentioning

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More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed–Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project

Tach

2009

City & Community

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Policy initiatives to deconcentrate poverty through mixed-income redevelopment were motivated in part by the desire to reduce social isolation and social disorganization in high-poverty neighborhoods. This article examines whether the presence of higher-income neighbors decreased social isolation or improved social organization in a Boston public housing project that was redeveloped into a HOPE VI mixedincome community. Based on in-depth interviews and neighborhood observation, I find that it was the lower-income former public housing residents who were primarily involved in creating neighborhood-based social ties, providing and receiving social support, and enforcing social control within the neighborhood, rather than the higher-income newcomers. This variation in neighborhood engagement stemmed from the different ways that long-term and newer residents perceived and interpreted their neighborhood surroundings. These differences were generated by residents' comparisons of current and past neighborhood environments and by neighborhood reputations.

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Section: Neighborhood Redevelopment Studiesmentioning

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More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed–Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project

Tach

2009

City & Community

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“…Also directly addressed to the politics of redistribution is feminist work that takes on social policy issues in the context of neo-liberal urbanism, such as welfare and social housing reform (Cook et al, 2000;Miranne, 2000), homelessness (Klodawsky, forthcoming), or the implications of the privatisation of real property markets in post-socialist cities for how gender and class relations are conjugated at home and at work (Pavlovskaya & Hanson, 2001). At the same time, feminist work on such themes is traversed by a concern with the politics of recognition (Breitbart & Pader, 1995;Gilbert, 2000;Martin, 2002).…”

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Constructing gender, constructing the urban: A review of Anglo-American feminist urban geography

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2003

Gender, Place & Culture

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This essay explores the changing shape of Anglo-American feminist urban geography, through a discussion of material published in Gender, Place and Culture and elsewhere over the past decade. We contextualize this discussion in relation to the development of feminist urban studies since the 1970s, showing its enduring commitment to work across traditional analytical divides that obfuscate crucial aspects of the mutual constitution of gender and the urban. Focusing on two thematic areas-affective experiences of urban space, and the making of urban public spaces-we examine how this commitment is expressed in recent contributions to feminist urban geography. Both bodies of work successfully challenge a divide between scholarship that focuses on how cities constrain, disadvantage and oppress women, and scholarship that focuses on how cities liberate women. However, we are disturbed by a seeming bifurcation between work concerned with issues of recognition and work focusing on issues of redistribution, with the former being well represented in Gender, Place and Culture and the latter more likely to be aired in 'mainstream' journals. We conclude by reflecting on our lack of perspective on the trajectories of feminist urban geography outside of the Anglo-American context and ask whether the boundaries within which our review has been conducted are themselves gendered.

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“…Geographers and urban scholars recognize the role of discourse in ''shaping how inner-city problems are conceptualized and what solutions get implemented'' (Crump 2002, 585) and the ways that discourse constructs public housing in people's minds (Breitbart and Pader 1995;Elliott et al 2004;Reichl 1999;Smith 1998Smith , 2000Vale 1993). Geographers and urban scholars are also not blind to the role of emotion in the racialization of public housing and public housing's larger context, the inner-city ghetto.…”

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The emotions of racialization: examining the intersection of emotion, race, and landscape through public housing in the United States

Hostetter

2009

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This paper analyzes racialization-the social construction of 'race' as a normative dimension of everyday life-and shows that emotion plays a central role in this process. My focus is the representation of post-World War II public housing, a key site of white-black racialization in the United States. Representations of filth, decay, and danger separate AfricanAmericans from mainstream, white society as disturbingly different. I argue that this particular representation carries heavy emotional value, specifically that of disgust and fear. It is disgust and fear that racializes this landscape, giving meaning and force to an ideology that views African-Americans as inherently inferior to whites. Policy is framed by these emotions, impacting decisions made about public housing. I explore these ideas through contemporary representations of public housing by federal officials in Washington, DC and by newspapers in Charlotte, North Carolina as well as the federal program HOPE VI.

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Establishing Ground: Representing gender and race in a mixed housing development

Cited by 32 publications

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More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed–Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project

More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed–Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project

Constructing gender, constructing the urban: A review of Anglo-American feminist urban geography

The emotions of racialization: examining the intersection of emotion, race, and landscape through public housing in the United States

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