Untapped density: site design and the proliferation of suburban multifamily housing

Larco, Nico

doi:10.1080/17549170903112921

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“…The strip shopping area was adjacent to a small amount of multi-family housing that served to buffer the predominant single-family housing (Larco 2009). …”

Section: Target Area Implementation: Addressing Market Weakness and Mmentioning

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Placemaking and disaster recovery: targeting place for recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans

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Wagner

Frisch

2014

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and

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One of the central strategies employed by the City of New Orleans to address the challenge of disaster recovery after Hurricane Katrina was a place-based strategy of targeted investments. This strategy sought to address the twin challenges of the punctuated disaster from Katrina and the slow-motion disaster of economic decline that pre-dated the storm. We analyze the key components of the geographic targeting program in New Orleans through a case study of a particular target in the Gentilly planning district of the city. The goal of the process was to utilize reinvigorated places to both encourage community reinvestment and deal with the underlying challenge of rebuilding in a more resilient manner. Target-area resources were never fully translated into dedicated resources for project implementation. We find that weak implementation and management capacity significantly limited the effectiveness of the targeting program in meeting place-based goals.

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“…The strip shopping area was adjacent to a small amount of multi-family housing that served to buffer the predominant single-family housing (Larco 2009). …”

Section: Target Area Implementation: Addressing Market Weakness and Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placemaking and disaster recovery: targeting place for recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans

Fields

Wagner

Frisch

2014

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and

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“…This decline has been perceived as suburban due to the location of increases in ‘poverty, economic segregation, declining household incomes, overcrowding in schools, population loss and declines in homeownership' (Hanlon and Vicino, : 249). It has occurred alongside an increase in racialized newcomer communities and multifamily dwellings (Madden, ; Larco, ; Hanlon, ).…”

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“…segregation, declining household incomes, overcrowding in schools, population loss and declines in homeownership' (Hanlon and Vicino, 2007: 249). It has occurred alongside an increase in racialized newcomer communities and multifamily dwellings (Madden, 2003;Larco, 2009;Hanlon, 2010). Similar patterns in Toronto's postwar inner suburbs have garnered significant attention from policymakers and academics alike (Boudreau et al, 2009;Sewell, 2009).…”

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Governed Through Ghost Jurisdictions: Municipal Law, Inner Suburbs and Rooming Houses

Freeman

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article examines the legal geography of municipal bylaws regulating rooming houses in the City of Toronto. Using a legal geography analysis of Toronto's rooming house licensing bylaw, I argue that this bylaw is a ghost jurisdiction that designates part of the city as illegal and has implications for governance of the inner suburbs. In so doing, I push the debate on legal geography forward by suggesting that we, as urban scholars, take the temporal seriously in our analysis of space. Drawing from semi‐structured interviews, archival data and participant observation, I analyse seemingly mundane legal mechanisms through the case study of suburban rooming houses. Overall, in this article I make three contributions. First, I demonstrate how a temporal analysis is important to legal geography inquiries of uneven regulation and spaces of poverty. Second, I suggest that studies of legal governance are integral for redefining suburban governance amidst socio‐economic decline in the inner suburbs. Third, I argue that studying urban legal mechanisms in the suburbs is essential for moving beyond downtown analytical frameworks and is needed to address how low‐income suburban tenants, a large majority of whom are racialized newcomers, are unevenly regulated and unfairly governed by local government.

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“…These road-based networks may provide an adequate representation of non-motorized networks in some cases; however, they may be inappropriate in others. For example, in many cases the walkability or bikeability behavior in suburban areas may be vastly underestimated with the presence of large lots, trails and informal routes (Larco, 2009;Chin, Van Niel, Giles-Corti, & Knuiman, 2008).…”

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“…The research in non-motorized transportation has brought attention to the faults of using built environment measures taken over larger areas, such as census geographies or transportation analysis zones (TAZs), as they may be obscuring variations or configurations that have implications for travel. For example, pockets of density, mixing and connectivity at levels that support walking may exist in many suburban locations and, in turn, there is evidence of substantial levels of walking activity in suburban areas -particularly around commercial centers (Moudon, Hess, Snyder, & Stanilov, 1997;Hess, Moudon, Snyder, & Stanilov, 1999;Larco, Stockard, Steiner, & West, 2013;Boarnet, Joh, Siembab, Fulton, & Nguyen, 2011;Larco, 2009;Handy & Clifton, 2001). Similarly, urban areas that on the aggregate would be considered walkable may have areas that present major barriers to walking or be inhospitable to cycling.…”

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Improving Trip Generation Methods for Livable Communities

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Larco²,

Currans³

et al. 2017

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Type of Report and Period Covered Sponsoring Agency Code Supplementary Notes16. Abstract Recent efforts to improve trip generation data available for transportation impact analysis of new development include the collection of multimodal trip generation data, development of models that account for the built environment, and new recommendations for practice. Building on a long line of research on transportation and built environment, many studies have identified important features of the surrounding built environment that most impact trip rates and mode shares, building on a long line of research on transportation and the built environment. Despite these improvements in data and methods, less attention is placed on identifying the conditions of the site itself and the immediate surrounding environment that influence trip generation and mode choice. To fill this gap, this study builds upon previous work (Contextual Influences on Trip Generation (Project Number: OTREC 2011-407), 2012), re-examines the information collected in that study, and includes new site-level observations. The objective of this study is to examine establishment multimodal trip generation more closely from a finer-grained scale and identify site-level attributes of the built environment that help explain multimodal trip generation. From this, we have the additional objective of developing a framework for trip generation analysis that takes findings from this study into consideration. We placed emphasis on those sites in our previous study with a discord between the expected travel patterns, based upon the larger urban context and built environment of the site, and the observed. The research approach will make use of mixed methods. In addition to using archived data from the previous study, site visits provided direct observation of the overall performance of the site, including travel patterns on and around the site as well as specific site configuration, urban design details and traffic operations. The analysis of this combination of data provided a more complete picture of site-level trip generation and our findings highlight the influence of: people living nearby and using the site; the nature of the land use on the site; the development along arterial roadways; site permeability and access; and the local culture around walking and cycling. Finally, this report ends by reflecting on the numerous concerns identified from practice, the research findings from various recent studies, and the need for a sustainable process for evaluating the transportation impacts of new land development. We present a potential framework to advance the methods for how site plans fit into neighborhood and regional planning, using locally defined standards and goals. Here, we de-emphasize the site and its immediate environs as the primary (and only) scale of analysis and lessen the reliance on the problematic methodologies for estimating site-level travel demand. Rather, we argue that transportation impact analysis would benefit by first taking a district, neighbor...

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Untapped density: site design and the proliferation of suburban multifamily housing

Cited by 15 publications

References 21 publications

Placemaking and disaster recovery: targeting place for recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans

Placemaking and disaster recovery: targeting place for recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans

Governed Through Ghost Jurisdictions: Municipal Law, Inner Suburbs and Rooming Houses

Improving Trip Generation Methods for Livable Communities

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