The Double Bind of Redevelopment: Camden During Receivership

Greenberg, David; Verma, Nandita; Seith, David

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1404824

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“…In Camden, the state granted two agencies extensive decision-making autonomy to spearhead the development of the city’s derelict waterfront. The state’s Municipal Rehabilitation and Recovery Act of 2002 authorized the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and the Camden Redevelopment Agency (CRA) to plan, assemble financing, and oversee the building of urban projects tied directly to economic development (Greenberg, Verma, and Seith 2009). Each coordinated the relevant state, county, and local government agencies to provide tax subsidies, funds, and incentives for various private sector-driven projects, including the remediation, clearance, and new construction of old industrial wasteland for the purpose of waterfront development (New Jersey Economic Development Authority 2014).…”

Section: Neoliberal Urbanism In Chester and Camdenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting the Citadel and the Ghetto

Mele

2015

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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The author examines the relevance of racial discourses to neoliberal urban development occurring in older, former industrial cities in the United States. Rather than treating the production of new development spaces as separate from the adjacent inner-city neighborhoods, the author focuses on the significance of race to “making sense of,” and, in turn, legitimizing the stark contrasts between revitalized enclaves and the inner city as a central component of contemporary neoliberal urban development. The concept of legibility is introduced and developed to demonstrate how ideological and discursive strategies simultaneously promote middle-class urban development enclaves and strategically account for—or make legible—the presence of minority, poor communities adjacent to them. The process of legibility is explored in waterfront developments in Camden, New Jersey, and Chester, Pennsylvania. The methods involved extensive fieldwork and semistructured interviews with city officials, employees of economic development authorities and public-private partnerships, leaders of community development organizations, and local residents from each city, conducted between 2009 and 2015. The study’s key findings incorporate an ideological dimension of race into an analysis of uneven urban development.

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Section: Neoliberal Urbanism In Chester and Camdenmentioning

confidence: 99%