6.10 Challenges of Urban Challenges

How did they commercialize and redevelop? (Urban renewal)

  • Run-down areas→ themed zones of commericla actiivty (stores, eats)

  • Generates income so encourages tourists

  • Old, industrial ports→ water promeades (waterfronts w/ social recreation)

    How did people respond to Urban Change?

Incalusionary zoning=requiring a certain percentage of houses in an area to be affordable to low-income people

  • response to exclusionary zoning

  • can have opposite affect—older houses destroyed, replaced with new houses, and sets a percentage of people to recieve proper housing, not good (gentrification)

+Local food movements

Disamenity Zones; Zones of abandonment

  • Poorest zones of a city , typically in LDCs (Latin America) run by gangs, drug lords, etc. (can’t access the services of the main city)

  • Venezuela

  • Zones lack: Safety, perm. housing, enough space, safety

  • Zones of abandonment: specifically moving out of deserted areas bc of environmental+econ. reasons

Central City: between CBD and suburbs

  • Suburbs has caused inner (central cities):

    • Loss of tax revenue (human services)

    • Bad living conditions

    • Few good job opportunities

    • Segregation

    • Homelessness, crime, drug and alcohal abuse

  1. Readlining: Not allowing people of certain ethnicities loans within particular areas

    a. Circled areas on map to people they won’t give loans (usually segregated areas)—still occurs according to wealth gap

  2. Blockbusting: Selling property to minorities, racist people move out, property costs more for blacks, cheaper property sold to whites

  3. White flight: Minorities move into cities and then white people move out to suburbs

  4. Environmental injustice: Minorities found in contaminated areas (nuclear plants)—richer areas, less contamination, adn can move away from areas

  5. Disamenity zones (zones of abandonment)

    Gentrification: Rehabilitation of deteriated areas near CBD

    Rent-gap theory: actual value of land vs. potential value of land

    What happens?

    • single/duel-income, no kids

    • young professionals

      • attracted to urban life

      • close to CBD (short commute)

      • trad. architecture, placeless subrubs