Saginaw Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability

Orfield, Myron

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“…Moreover, US metropolitan regions are fragmented into a hundred municipalities each, on average (Savitch and Adhikari 2016, p. 383), creating cities with relatively small footprints, each of which must fund itself with growth-based development. Many cities also incorporated into their own local government expressly to exclude minorities and avoid redistributing taxes, such that fragmentation has contributed to segregation and spatial inequality (Orfield 1997;Rothstein 2017). Within this administrative reality, proponents of GI-FRR are rather naively asking cities to reduce flood risk by relocating residents from flood-prone areas, convert land zoned for development to land for green infrastructure, and expand the scale and space allotted to land-extensive dunes, wetlands, and restored floodplains.…”

Section: Municipal Fragmentation and Fiscal Reliance On Growth And Dementioning

confidence: 99%

“…As another example, Minneapolis/St. Paul approved a regional tax in 1975 to incentivize development in the inner city and inner-ring suburbs, rather than subsidize exurban infrastructure expansion (Orfield 1997). Historically, pressures to regionalize have come from federal mandates or from local calls for reform (sometimes to sidestep federal mandates) (Barbour 2002).…”

Section: Reviving Platforms For Watershed and Regional Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Shi

2020

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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Green infrastructure is being pulled in divergent directions. As climate impacts intensify, advocates are promoting larger, ecosystem-scale strategies to help mitigate flood risks. Yet, research on existing urban greening projects finds that they can cause gentrification and displacement, suggesting that smaller projects may be more desirable from an equity perspective. This essay argues that cities need both large-scale and justice-enhancing nature-based solutions. They can help overcome tensions in these goals by (1) reframing green infrastructure as a way to support community development and integrated socio-ecological landscapes, and (2) advancing metropolitan regional governance strategies that alleviate municipal fiscal imperatives to maximize local land development. These proposals suggest that the practice of green infrastructure would benefit from diversifying its ranks to include social and government policy, community development, and agroecology, as well as learning from the Global South and those currently positioned as "off the map" of technical expertise. They also point to the need for interdisciplinary research that provides an evidence base for more transformative social, ecological, and governance strategies. While the essay focuses on the US context, it is relevant to an international audience given that similar challenges confront cities worldwide and that it highlights how the Global North can learn from the Global South.

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Section: Municipal Fragmentation and Fiscal Reliance On Growth And Dementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Reviving Platforms For Watershed and Regional Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Shi

2020

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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“…Financial disparities between jurisdictions increased, resulting for example in the 2013 bankruptcy of the City of Detroit within a metropolitan region characterized by a reasonably healthy economy overall and many wealthy suburbs (Reich, 2013;Stiglitz, 2013). With the exception of the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, which adopted a partial tax-base sharing program in 1982 (Orfield, 1997), regional governments have had little success in stemming these growing spatial inequities. Across mega regions, segregation would be of an even larger scale and mechanisms for sharing resources and promoting equity even weaker.…”

Section: Equity Loses Againmentioning

confidence: 99%

Five reasons why megaregional planning works against sustainability

Wheeler¹

2015

Megaregions

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regions: epistemology, discourse patterns, big urban business Markus Hesse 3. Megaregions and the urban question: the new strategic terrain for US urban competitiveness David Wachsmuth 4. Beyond globalization: a historical urban development approach to understanding mega regions Alex Schafran 5. Five reasons why mega regional planning works against sustainability Stephen M. Wheeler 6. Conflicting spaces of governance in the imagined Great Lakes mega region Michael R. Glass 7. Brave new 'mega regional worlds'? Reflections from a North European perspective Lukas Smas and Peter Schmitt 8. Globalization and the mega region: investigating the evolution of the Pearl River Delta in a historical perspective Xu Zhang 9. Towards a mega regional future: analysing progress, assessing priorities in the US mega region project Billy Fleming

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“…Ultimately, the fiscal capacity of city governments depends on the incomes of their residents. A substantial income gap between a central city and its suburbs could have a dynamic effect, as residents are "pushed" by concentrated poverty out of the city and "pulled" by concentrated resources to the outlying suburbs (Orfield 1997). David Rusk has gone so far as to suggest that "the city-suburb per capita income ratio is the single most important indicator of an urban area's social health" (1995,31).…”

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Minority Mayors and the Hollow-Prize Problem

Kraus

Swanstrom²

2001

APSC

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The number of African American and Hispanic mayors of American cities has grown steadily since 1967, the year that Cleveland elected Carl Stokes the first minority mayor of a major American city.Throughout this paper, we use the term “minority” to refer to African Americans and Hispanics. In doing so, we do not assume that African American and Hispanic voters have the same preferences, nor do we intend to minimize the significant diversity within each of these groups. Rather, we group Hispanics and African Americans together because of the relative disadvantage members of both communities have experienced in comparison to whites in the United States. Over the past three decades, cities in all parts of the country have elected black and Hispanic mayors, including the five largest: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia. As the new century begins, almost one-third (25/76) of major American cities have minority mayors. The election of minority mayors is a clear sign of political progress by minorities since passage of the civil rights acts of the 1960s.

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Saginaw Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability

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Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

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Minority Mayors and the Hollow-Prize Problem

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