Downtown Redevelopment with Complex Site Constraints

GEO-Velopment ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Niehoff
Keyword(s):  
Downtown Redevelopment

scholarly journals New Housing Developments in the City Center of Guadalajara (Mexico): An Analysis from the Perspective of Collective and Sustainable Dwelling

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Alessandra Cireddu
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
City Center ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Horizontal Growth ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
The City ◽  
New Buildings

New vertical housing developments in Guadalajara (Mexico) are reaching the city center as a response for redensification after many years of expansion of the urban area characterized by a suburban, low density and fragmented pattern. This horizontal growth, dominated by use of the automobile as prevailing mode of transport, has proven to be unsustainable not only from an environmental point of view, but also from a social perspective where the “human scale” of the city has been affected, same as the daily life of its inhabitants. On the other hand, vertical housing proposals are by their very nature associated with concepts of redensification, compact city and collective living; the aim of this article is to analyze some new housing developments in Guadalajara downtown in order to evaluate to what extent the new buildings embody a more sustainable, livable and collective dwelling, to discuss findings, successes and failures and thus be able to contribute some conclusions and open a broader reflection about contemporary housing, urban density and downtown redevelopment in Latin America cities through collective and sustainable dwelling.

Mobility and Insecurity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd M. Michney
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
White Families ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment ◽  
The American South ◽  
American Families

This chapter considers the structural factors and life dilemmas upwardly mobile black Clevelanders faced even after achieving geographic mobility, and explicates the dynamic whereby less-affluent African American families steadily moved into new, outlying black middle-class neighbourhoods. Topics discussed include lending discrimination, the unfavourable financing arrangements available to African American homebuyers and the associated economic setbacks they experienced, the role of black professional real estate brokerage associations, the phenomenon of isolated white families remaining in post-transitional neighbourhoods, and the forces driving lower-income African American families into outlying neighbourhoods, mainly downtown redevelopment and ongoing migration from the American South. It also investigates black middle class notions of status and the intra-racial, cross-class frictions that ensued around issues of property upkeep, personal comportment, child rearing, and leisure-time practices.

Downtown Redevelopment and Community Resistance

2018 ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Beazley ◽  
Patrick Loftman ◽  
Brendan Nevin
Keyword(s):  
Community Resistance ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment

Book Reviews

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-462
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
State University ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
Mike Davis

Books reviewed: High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Downtown Redevelopment, by Timothy Jon Curry, Kent Schwirian, and Rachael A. Woldoff. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2004. xiv, 184 pp. Protecting Home: Class, Race and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball, by Sherri Grasmuck. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 304 pp. ISBN: 0813535557 (paper). Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality edited by David P. Varady. State University of New York Press, 2005. 310 pages + xix Mobilizing an Asian American Community, by Linda Trinh Võ. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. 304 pp. ISBM: 1‐59213‐262‐6 (paper). Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis. New York: Verso, 2006. 228 pp. ISBN: 1844670228 (cloth). Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy, by J. Phillip Thompson, III. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 360 pp. ISBN: 0195177339 (cloth).

Unequal Impacts of Downtown Redevelopment: The Case of Stadium Building in Phoenix, Arizona

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy W. Collins ◽  
Sara E. Grineski
Keyword(s):  
Downtown Redevelopment

City Sterilization and Poverty Management

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. McLeod ◽  
Matthew I. Horner ◽  
Matthew G. Hawzen ◽  
Mark DiDonato
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Dense Array ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Homeless Services ◽  
Spatial Analytics ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment ◽  
Mobility System

People experiencing homelessness use service centers, shelters, missions, and other voluntary organizations to access material resources and social networks. Because these service hubs have a dense array of resources, people sometimes incorporate them into their daily movements around urban space, which results in patterns or tendencies called mobility systems. Drawing on participant observation, document analysis, and spatial analytics via geographic information systems (GIS), we describe the mobility system organized around one homeless services center in Tallahassee, Florida. Moreover, we present a case study of how this homeless services center was moved away from downtown to an upgraded facility to show how city administrators manage homeless mobility systems when they are deemed unsafe for downtown redevelopment. The case supports previous studies that found punitive and supportive strategies are used together, but adds how mobility and “network capital” can be used to evaluate center relocations in the future.

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