Mi Casa no es Su Casa: The Fight for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in an Inner-Ring Suburb

Willow Lung-Amam, Rolf Pendall, Elijah Knaap

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)442-455
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Planning Education and Research
Volume39
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2019

Keywords

  • Hispanic or Latino communities
  • displacement
  • equitable transit-oriented development
  • immigrant or immigration
  • suburban decline
  • suburban poverty
  • transit-induced gentrification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Development
  • Urban Studies

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