Comments on: Writings about pairs of adjacent neighborhoods?

Question: Writings about pairs of adjacent neighborhoods?

mirepoix — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:49:38 -0800

Urban Planning/Theory Filter: I am looking for writings, preferably available online, about the relationships of adjacent neighborhoods over time.

I'm interested in the symbiotic (or antagonistic, or whatever) relationships of adjoining neighborhoods, especially when change is added to the mix.

I've heard about "triage" in a planning/policy context, where cities decide to leave certain under-served communities for dead and save others that are closer geographically to more affluent or gentrified parts of town -- those "up and coming" "frontier" neighborhoods that the creative class has probably staked some claim in already.

Also interested in case studies about how certain areas deal successfully with integrating the needs and resources of nearby communities into their Specific Plans.

So, stuff like that, or articles about more organic relationships between neighborhoods... not really looking for personal anecdotes as much as help finding academic literature or good journalism. Thanks!

By: mirepoix

mirepoix — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:54:22 -0800

And if something isn't online, point me to the abstract anyway -- there are libraries in this town!

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:12:55 -0800

I would check the archives of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for the keywords "Riverwest" and "Brewer's Hill" - two gentrifying neighborhoods that are next to areas of extreme poverty. During the housing boom, there was much clashing in Brewer's Hill as people lost their homes to developers (as well as along/around 1st Street). I remember a lengthy series of articles about this, probably around 2005. Check "Harambee" and "Metcalfe Park" as well.

I'd also ask over at Cyburbia.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:15:56 -0800

Here's a short article about Brewer's Hill (oh, bizarre, I just realized that I was at that meeting).

By: gueneverey

gueneverey — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:21:40 -0800

Not sure if this is at all what you're looking for, but the book American Pharaoh talks a lot about Chicago's South side neighborhoods, and their changing demographics in early to mid century. It's a pretty good case study of how not to deal successfully with neighboring communities and race relations.

By: doobiedoo

doobiedoo — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:49:45 -0800

Might be a bit larger and more antagonistic than what you were looking for, but...

'Conflict in Cities and the Contested State' is a five year research project starting in 2007 that focuses on divided cities as key sites in territorial conflicts over state and national identities, cultures and borders.

Also this, on the gentrification of East London.