Mi Casa no es Su Casa: The Fight for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in an Inner-Ring Suburb
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2019
Subject Area
land use - transit oriented development, policy - equity, land use - planning
Keywords
displacement, equitable transit-oriented development, Hispanic or Latino communities, immigrant or immigration, suburban decline, suburban poverty, transit-induced gentrification
Abstract
Transit-oriented development (TOD) often raises land values and can promote gentrification and the displacement in low-income communities. Little research, however, has shown how communities have organized to fight for more equitable TOD processes and outcomes within particular metropolitan contexts and dynamics of neighborhood change. This case study examines the role of neighborhood-based advocacy and organizing in fighting for equitable TOD and tackling key political and planning challenges in a predominantly Latinx immigrant inner-ring suburb. Their successes show the strengths of community-based, cross-sector coalitions in generating more equitable and inclusive TOD processes, plans, and policies that target conditions of place-based precarity.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by SAGE, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Lung-Amam, W., Pendall, R., & Knapp, E. (2019). Mi Casa no es Su Casa: The Fight for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in an Inner-Ring Suburb. Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 39(4), pp. 442-455.
