IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jlands/v13y2024i6p734-d1400424.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How Does the Neighborhood Unit Inform Community Revitalization?

Author

Listed:
  • Reza Banai

    (School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA)

Abstract

Community revitalization is a complex, multifaceted process, studied conceptually and empirically in the vast multidisciplinary literature. Among the cited elements of community revitalization are housing; school, civic, and retail spaces; street networks; parks; and green spaces. However, the elements are commonly studied in isolation, not considering their interrelated qualities as all-of-a-piece of the community revitalization process. In this paper, we draw on the concept of the neighborhood unit that facilities a holistic approach to community revitalization. We show how the neighborhood unit is metamorphosed and thereby endured from the classic to the contemporary. We argue that the neighborhood unit informs, as well as being challenged by, community revitalization. Furthermore, inadequate attention is given to how urban revitalization challenges the efficacy of the neighborhood unit itself. The inner-city blight provides an impetus to look beyond the neighborhood to the metropolitan region as a whole. The neighborhood unit’s fundamental limitation is posed by its cellular autonomy, in favor of alternatives that connect the neighborhood to the metropolitan region’s jobs–housing–services–mobility opportunity holistically. Our literature review of the impactful elements of community revitalization is aided by AI (ChatGPT) as an expeditious search engine. It is found that the AI-aided search of the universal poses anew the significance of the particular —the site- and context-specific. We conclude with universal “performance dimensions” of Good City Form that are calibrated locally, reflecting the goodness of the city form, of which the neighborhood is a building block.

Suggested Citation

  • Reza Banai, 2024. "How Does the Neighborhood Unit Inform Community Revitalization?," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-14, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:13:y:2024:i:6:p:734-:d:1400424
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/6/734/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/6/734/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Samson Tarpeh & Ronald Hustedde, 2021. "How faith-based organizations perceive their role in community development: An exploratory study," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(1), pages 61-76, January.
    2. Ioan Voicu & Vicki Been, 2008. "The Effect of Community Gardens on Neighboring Property Values," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 36(2), pages 241-283, June.
    3. Kim Skobba & Karen Tinsley, 2016. "Addressing housing and neighborhood revitalization needs in Georgia’s rural and small towns: A study of the Georgia Initiative for Community Housing," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(4), pages 449-463, July.
    4. ., 2023. "The artificial intelligence ecosystem," Chapters, in: The Rise of Algorithmic Society and the Strategic Role of Arts and Culture, chapter 2, pages 6-30, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Michael C. Lens, 2013. "The Limits of Housing Investment as a Neighborhood Revitalization Tool: Crime in New York City," Journal of the American Planning Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 79(3), pages 211-221, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Zahirovich-Herbert, Velma & Gibler, Karen M., 2014. "The effect of new residential construction on housing prices," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(C), pages 1-18.
    2. Michal Shur‐Ofry & Ofer Malcai, 2021. "Collective action and social contagion: Community gardens as a case study," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(1), pages 63-81, January.
    3. Enwei Zhu & Stanislav Sobolevsky, 2018. "House Price Modeling with Digital Census," Papers 1809.03834, arXiv.org.
    4. George Martin & Roland Clift & Ian Christie, 2016. "Urban Cultivation and Its Contributions to Sustainability: Nibbles of Food but Oodles of Social Capital," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(5), pages 1-18, April.
    5. Yun‐chien Chang, 2011. "An Empirical Study of Court‐Adjudicated Takings Compensation in New York City: 1990–2003," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(2), pages 384-412, June.
    6. Carrie Chennault & Laura Klavitter & Lynn Sutton, 2019. "Visceral Encounters: A Political Ecology of Urban Land, Food, and Housing in Dubuque, Iowa," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-25, April.
    7. Delores Conway & Christina Li & Jennifer Wolch & Christopher Kahle & Michael Jerrett, 2010. "A Spatial Autocorrelation Approach for Examining the Effects of Urban Greenspace on Residential Property Values," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 41(2), pages 150-169, August.
    8. Stefano Cellini & Francisco Nobre, 2023. "Business Improvement Districts and Housing Markets: Evidence from Neighborhoods in London," School of Economics Discussion Papers 0523, School of Economics, University of Surrey.
    9. Niblick, Briana & Landis, Amy E., 2016. "Assessing renewable energy potential on United States marginal and contaminated sites," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 489-497.
    10. Yun-chien Chang, 2010. "An Empirical Study of Compensation Paid in Eminent Domain Settlements: New York City, 1990-2002," The Journal of Legal Studies, University of Chicago Press, vol. 39(1), pages 201-244, January.
    11. Ela, Nate, 2018. "Use-Based Welfare: Property Experiments in Chicago, 1895-1935," SocArXiv 5qpa6, Center for Open Science.
    12. Jiao, Yong & Wang, Gaofei & Li, Chengyou & Pan, Jia, 2024. "Digital inclusive finance, factor flow and industrial structure upgrading: Evidence from the yellow river basin," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 62(PA).
    13. Brady P. Horn & Aakrit Joshi & Johanna Catherine Maclean, 2019. "Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers and Property Values," NBER Working Papers 25427, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Charlotte Glennie, 2020. "Growing Together: Community Coalescence and the Social Dimensions of Urban Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(22), pages 1-25, November.
    15. Spader, Jonathan & Schuetz, Jenny & Cortes, Alvaro, 2016. "Fewer vacants, fewer crimes? Impacts of neighborhood revitalization policies on crime," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 73-84.
    16. Fatmir Haskaj, 2021. "(Community) garden in the city: Conspicuous labor and gentrification," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(5), pages 1051-1075, August.
    17. Lincoln R Larson & Viniece Jennings & Scott A Cloutier, 2016. "Public Parks and Wellbeing in Urban Areas of the United States," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(4), pages 1-19, April.
    18. Desen Lin & Shane T. Jensen & Susan M. Wachter, 2023. "The price effects of greening vacant lots: How neighborhood attributes matter," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 51(3), pages 573-610, May.
    19. Brunes, Fredrik & Hermansson, Cecilia & Song, Han-Suck & Wilhelmsson, Mats, 2016. "NIMBYs for the rich and YIMBYs for the poor: Analyzing the property price effects of infill development," Working Paper Series 16/2, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Real Estate and Construction Management & Banking and Finance.
    20. Jiang, Yirui & Tran, Trung Hieu & Williams, Leon, 2023. "Machine learning and mixed reality for smart aviation: Applications and challenges," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:13:y:2024:i:6:p:734-:d:1400424. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.