Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era

Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City

Clarence N. Stone, Robert P. Stoker, John Betancur, Susan E. Clarke, Marilyn Dantico, Martin Horak, Karen Mossberger, Juliet Musso, Jefferey M. Sellers, Ellen Shiau, Harold Wolman, Donn Worgs

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780226289014, 9780226288963
• eBook ISBN: 9780226289151
• Topic: Politique et relations internationales
• Subtopic: Gouvernement américain

For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however, signs of change. This collection of studies by a distinguished group of political scientists and urban planning scholars offers a rich analysis of the scope, potential, and ramifications of a shift still in progress. Focusing on neighborhoods in six cities—Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Toronto—the authors show how key players, including politicians and philanthropic organizations, are beginning to see economic growth and neighborhood improvement as complementary goals. The heads of universities and hospitals in central locations also find themselves facing newly defined realities, adding to the fluidity of a new political landscape even as structural inequalities exert a continuing influence.

While not denying the hurdles that community revitalization still faces, the contributors ultimately put forth a strong case that a more hospitable local milieu can be created for making neighborhood policy. In examining the course of experiences from an earlier period of redevelopment to the present postindustrial city, this book opens a window on a complex process of political change and possibility for reform.

Index

The letter t following a page number denotes a table.

Abell Foundation, 59, 76n2

Access Partnership, The (TAP), in Baltimore, 64, 65, 78n28, 235

Action for Neighborhood Change (ANC), in Toronto, 199–200, 203, 204

Addams, Jane, 82

affordable housing, 223; in Baltimore, 59, 66, 67, 222; in Chicago, 82, 98, 101–2; in Denver, 155, 157, 171, 174, 175, 177–78, 181n24; exaction fees and, 30n2; in Los Angeles, 138, 141, 142, 143–44, 147; in Minneapolis, 219n1; in Toronto, 184, 185

Affordable Housing Trust Fund: in Baltimore, 67; in Los Angeles, 143–44

African American communities: Chicago’s New Communities Program and, 94; in Denver, 156, 159; displacement in Washington, DC’s Southwest area, 10; in Los Angeles, 134, 135; redevelopment and population displacement and, 8, 9; Schaefer’s mayoralty in Baltimore and, 11; in South Phoenix Village, 118; ward politics in Chicago and, 84; in Woodlawn (Chicago), 99

African Americans: dispersion of, in Watts, 150; populations in US cities and suburbs, 2010, 41, 41t; social distress and spatial and social segregation of, 47

Alain Leroy Locke High School (Los Angeles), 138

aldermen in Chicago: Richard M. Daley administration and, 88, 89; neighborhood policymaking and, 103; patronage politics and EZ program and, 92; Pilsen neighborhood and prodevelopment stance of, 99; ward-based politics and, 81, 83–84; Washington’s mayoralty and, 87

Alinsky, Saul, Chicago community organizing by, 82, 86, 100

alliance building, challenges of, xvii

AmeriCorps volunteers, in Garfield (Phoenix), 121

ANC. See Action for Neighborhood Change (ANC)

Andrews, Marvin, 114

Annie E. Casey Foundation, 50, 58, 61, 62, 65, 68, 76n2; in Baltimore, 72, 159, 211; BNIA launching and, 234; Making Connections Program, 173

Anschutz Entertainment Group, 133, 142

anti-expressway movement, 31n15

antiviolence campaigns, 7

Apostolic Church (Chicago), 100, 101, 107n16

Arizona Cardinals football stadium, 121

Arizona State University, 115, 121

Armbruster, Timothy, 69

Asian population, US cities and suburbs, 2010, 41t

Associated Black Charities (Baltimore), 76n2

Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, 58, 76n2

Atlanta: Citywide League of Neighborhoods in, 13...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Preface, by Clarence N. Stone
• List of Abbreviations
• ONE Change Afoot
• TWO Contexts for Neighborhood Revitalization: A Comparative Overview
• THREE Neighborhood Policy in Baltimore: The Postindustrial Turn
• FOUR Standing in Two Worlds: Neighborhood Policy, the Civic Arena, and Ward-Based Politics in Chicago
• FIVE Professionalized Government: Institutionalizing the New Politics in Phoenix
• SIX City Fragmentation and Neighborhood Connections: The Political Dynamics of Community Revitalization in Los Angeles
• SEVEN The New Politics in a Postindustrial City: Intersecting Policies in Denver
• EIGHT Policy Shift without Institutional Change: The Precarious Place of Neighborhood Revitalization in Toronto
• NINE Contending with Structural Inequality in a New Era
• References
• List of Coauthors
• Index