This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America by Anthony Flint

Flint, Anthony

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“…However, some researchers consider the term 'suburb' to be obsolete or simply inadequate due to its inability to capture the diversity of neighbourhoods contained within suburbs. Forsyth (2012), in a recent review of the literature, identifies several 'dimensions' that have been mobilised to define suburbs on the basis of location (Turcotte, 2008), built form (Forsyth et al, 2007), transportation infrastructure (Flint, 2006), activity (Duany et al, 2000) and social, cultural, and political features (Beauregard, 2006;Hayden, 2003;Teaford, 2008). Our research is novel, and complementary, in that instead of comparing income between categories that denote specific places as urban or suburban, we focus on ways of living that might constitute forms of 'suburbanism'.…”

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Suburban ways of living and the geography of income: How homeownership, single-family dwellings and automobile use define the metropolitan social space

Moos

Méndez

2014

Urban Studies

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Current research depicts suburbs as becoming more heterogeneous in terms of socio-economic status. Providing a novel analysis, this paper engages with that research by operationalising suburban ways of living (homeownership, single-family dwelling occupancy and automobile use) and relating them to the geography of income across 26 Canadian metropolitan areas. We find that suburban ways of living exist in new areas and remain associated with higher incomes even as older suburbs, as places, have become more diverse. In the largest cities the relationship between income and suburban ways of living is weaker due to the growth of condominiums in downtowns that allow higher income earners to live urban lifestyles. Homeownership is overwhelmingly more important than other variables in explaining the geography of income across 26 metropolitan areas.

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Section: Defining Suburban Ways Of Lifementioning

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Suburban ways of living and the geography of income: How homeownership, single-family dwellings and automobile use define the metropolitan social space

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Méndez

2014

Urban Studies

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“…In the United States, China, India and Latin America, the emergence of "sprawl" (the encroachment of urban land upon the countryside with new suburbs) has now reached alarming proportions in some cases, in relation to coinciding favourable economic, social and physicalclimatic conditions (Ewing, 1994). Studies performed in the United States over the past fifty years have mainly focused on the adverse effects that urban sprawl has on the quality of an urban area in terms of community, mobility and energy consumption (Altshuler, 1977;Buttenheim & Cornick, 1938;Dowling, 2000;Flint, 2006;Gaffney, 1964;Gordon & Wong, 1985;Haskell & Whyte, 1958;Hess, 2001;Jenks et al, 1996;Mumford, 1961;Rodwin, 1956). More recently undertaken studies focus on environmental integrity in a broader meaning of the term (Irwin & Bockstael, 2007;World Watch Institute, 2007).…”

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Models of Urban Land Use in Europe

Romano

Zullo

2013

International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems

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The aim of this paper is to examine available homogenous data on urban conversion of land in Western European countries and determine whether they are suitable to make an international comparison between land policies and management behaviour at the local level. This paper provides some results obtained from currently available information, but it stresses major data production criticalities which hinder the performance of comparable and reliable overall statistical studies. Conclusions stress the need for greater detail in the production of primary data on the features and magnitude of territorial urbanisation in Europe, as the EEA is doing for main cities. Moreover, this paper includes some remarks on the contents of the preliminary documents of EU soil directive. In particular, it focuses on the issue of urban transformation thresholds over time, a topic that has already been tackled by some northern European countries, however using techniques which cannot be applied as they are to all other countries.

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“…But, the libertarian political movement's goals are not abstract: eminent domain has recently been used as the wedge issue for a broader anti-government and antiregulatory agenda; hence anti-government stalwart Grover Norquist's pronouncement that the Kelo decision was ''manna from heaven'' (Bradley, 2006). Before Kelo, antitakings activism was already tightly linked to corporate-financed libertarian and conservative political networks that sought to free property owners from the burdens of environmental regulation (Flint, 2006;Niedt and Weir, 2010). After Kelo, IJ supported ballot initiatives in Arizona and California that not only limited eminent powers, but required governments to compensate owners whenever a regulation diminished a property's value.…”

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Comment on Carpenter and Ross (2009)

Niedt¹

2011

Urban Studies

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In an October 2009 Urban Studies article, Dick Carpenter and John Ross present new research on eminent domain in the US. The authors study areas where local governments plan to acquire property via eminent domain and convey that property to other private owners. They show that area residents are disproportionately members of ''less politically powerful populations'' and situate their findings within critical urban theory. This response argues that, although Carpenter and Ross do make a useful empirical contribution to the literature, there is an unacknowledged dissonance between their theoretical and normative frameworks and those of most critical urban theorists. The latter understand redevelopment within the broader context of neo-liberalism and structural inequality, and advocate equitable and communitycontrolled redevelopment. While Carpenter and Ross' position on neo-liberalism and community control is unclear, they are affiliated with an organisation that prioritises individual property rights rather than equity.Few phenomena reveal as much about the political economy of US cities as does the use of eminent domain by local governments. In the post-WWII period, eminent domain-essentially the power to buy private property from unwilling sellers-has been put to a wide variety of ends, many justified by the promise of revitalisation. Cities used eminent domain to clear 'blight' and construct infrastructure (including public housing) during the era of urban renewal, and to facilitate economic development during the recent entrepreneurial/neoliberal period. Hence, eminent domain lies at the nexus of much broader phenomena, including the persistence of the race-and class-divided metropolis, the fiscal crisis of urban and inner-suburban governments, the relationship between capital and the state, the challenge of change in built-out places, the political capacity of community organisations, and the role of planning and planners. Eminent domain must be placed in this context not just for analytical reasons, but ultimately for normative ones, as context determines eminent domain's beneficiaries Christopher Niedt is in the National

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This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America by Anthony Flint

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Suburban ways of living and the geography of income: How homeownership, single-family dwellings and automobile use define the metropolitan social space

Suburban ways of living and the geography of income: How homeownership, single-family dwellings and automobile use define the metropolitan social space

Models of Urban Land Use in Europe

Comment on Carpenter and Ross (2009)

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