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The Urban Nature Indexes (Uni): A New, Flexible Tool To Comprehensively Monitor Urban Ecological Performance, Jennifer Pierce, Laura Costadone, Lelani Mannetti, Joeri Morpurgo, Charlyn Green, Michael Halder, Pablo Lopez Guijosa, Abner Bogan, Russell Galt, Jonathan Hughes
The Urban Nature Indexes (Uni): A New, Flexible Tool To Comprehensively Monitor Urban Ecological Performance, Jennifer Pierce, Laura Costadone, Lelani Mannetti, Joeri Morpurgo, Charlyn Green, Michael Halder, Pablo Lopez Guijosa, Abner Bogan, Russell Galt, Jonathan Hughes
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We present the Urban Nature Indexes (UNI), a comprehensive tool that measures urban ecological performance under one standard framework linked to global commitments. The UNI was developed by interdisciplinary experts and evaluated by practitioners from diverse cities to capture each city’s ecological footprint from local to global scale. The UNI comprises six themes (consumption drivers, human pressures, habitat status, species status, nature’s contributions to people, and governance responses) that encompass measurable impacts on climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystem services, pollution, consumption, water management, and equity within one comprehensive system. Cities then adapt the UNI to their context and capacity by …
The Role Of Values In Future Scenarios: What Types Of Values Underpin (Un)Sustainable And (Un)Just Futures?, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Yuki Yoshida, Nadia Sitas, Lelani Mannetti, Adrian Martin, Ritesh Kumar, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Rebecca Collins, Klaus Eisenack, Ellen Guimaraes, María Heras, Valerie Nelson, Aidin Niamir, Federica Ravera, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Patrick O’Farrell
The Role Of Values In Future Scenarios: What Types Of Values Underpin (Un)Sustainable And (Un)Just Futures?, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Yuki Yoshida, Nadia Sitas, Lelani Mannetti, Adrian Martin, Ritesh Kumar, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Rebecca Collins, Klaus Eisenack, Ellen Guimaraes, María Heras, Valerie Nelson, Aidin Niamir, Federica Ravera, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Patrick O’Farrell
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Values have been recognized as critical leverage points for sustainability transformations. However, there is limited evidence unpacking which types of values are associated with specific types of sustainable and unsustainable futures, as described by future scenarios and other types of futures-related works. This paper builds on a review of 460 future scenarios, visions, and other types of futures-related works in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Values Assessment, synthesizing evidence from academia, private sector, governmental and non-governmental strategies, science-policy reports, and arts-based evidence, to identify the types of values of nature that underlie different archetypes of the …
Diverse Values Of Nature For Sustainability, Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Michael Christie, David Gonzalez Jimenez, Adrian Martin, Christopher Raymond, Mette Termansen, Arild Vatn, Simone Athayde, Brigitte Baptiste, David N. Barton, Sander Jacobs, Eszter Kelemen, Ritesh Kumar, Elena Lazos, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Barbara Nakangu, Patrick O’Farrell, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Meine Van Noordwijk, Soeun Ahn, Sacha Amaruzaman, Ariane M. Amin, Paola Arias-Arévalo, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, Antonio J. Castro, Victoria Contreras, Alta De Vos, Nicolas Dendoncker Dendoncker, Stefanie Engel, Uta Eser, Daniel P. Faith, Anna Filyushkina, Houda Ghazi, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Rachelle K. Gould, Louise Guibrunet, Haripriya Gundimeda, Thomas Hahn, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Marcello Hernández-Blanco, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Natalia Lutti Hummel Wicher, Cem İskender Aydın, Mine Islar, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Jasper O. Kenter, Marina Kosmus, Heera Lee, Beria Leimona, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic Lenzi, Bosco Lliso, Lelani Mannetti, Juliana Merçon, Ana Sofía Monroy-Sais, Nibedita Mukherjee, Barbara Muraca, Roldan Muradian, Ranjini Murali, Sara H. Nelson, Gabriel R. Nemogá-Soto, Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Aidin Niamir, Emmanuel Nuesiri, Tobias O. Nyumba, Begüm Özkaynak, Ignacio Palomo, Ram Pandit, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville, Luciana Porter-Bolland, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Sonya Sachdeva, Aibek Samakov, Marije Schaafsma, Nadia Sitas Sitas, Paula Ungar, Evonne Yiu, Yuki Yoshida, Eglee Zent
Diverse Values Of Nature For Sustainability, Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Michael Christie, David Gonzalez Jimenez, Adrian Martin, Christopher Raymond, Mette Termansen, Arild Vatn, Simone Athayde, Brigitte Baptiste, David N. Barton, Sander Jacobs, Eszter Kelemen, Ritesh Kumar, Elena Lazos, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Barbara Nakangu, Patrick O’Farrell, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Meine Van Noordwijk, Soeun Ahn, Sacha Amaruzaman, Ariane M. Amin, Paola Arias-Arévalo, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, Antonio J. Castro, Victoria Contreras, Alta De Vos, Nicolas Dendoncker Dendoncker, Stefanie Engel, Uta Eser, Daniel P. Faith, Anna Filyushkina, Houda Ghazi, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Rachelle K. Gould, Louise Guibrunet, Haripriya Gundimeda, Thomas Hahn, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Marcello Hernández-Blanco, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Natalia Lutti Hummel Wicher, Cem İskender Aydın, Mine Islar, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Jasper O. Kenter, Marina Kosmus, Heera Lee, Beria Leimona, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic Lenzi, Bosco Lliso, Lelani Mannetti, Juliana Merçon, Ana Sofía Monroy-Sais, Nibedita Mukherjee, Barbara Muraca, Roldan Muradian, Ranjini Murali, Sara H. Nelson, Gabriel R. Nemogá-Soto, Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Aidin Niamir, Emmanuel Nuesiri, Tobias O. Nyumba, Begüm Özkaynak, Ignacio Palomo, Ram Pandit, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville, Luciana Porter-Bolland, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Sonya Sachdeva, Aibek Samakov, Marije Schaafsma, Nadia Sitas Sitas, Paula Ungar, Evonne Yiu, Yuki Yoshida, Eglee Zent
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Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being addressing the global biodiversity crisis still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature’s values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, predominant environmental and development policies still prioritize a …
Science On Ecosystems And People To Support The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Matthias Schröter, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Christian Albert, Rosemary Hill, Torsten Krause, Jacqueline Loos, Lelani Mannetti, Berta Martín-López, Amrita Neelakantan, John A. Parrotta, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, David J. Abson, Rob Alkemade, Bas Amelung Amelung, Brigitte Baptiste, Edmundo Barrios, Houria Djoudi, Evangelia G. Drakou, Isabelle Durance, Marina García Llorente, Davide Geneletti, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Sander Jacobs, Nina N. Kaiser, Jonathan Kingsley, Sarah Klain, María José Martínez-Harms, Ranjini Murali, Patrick O’Farrell, Ram Pandit, Laura Pereira, Sakshi Rana, Maraja Riechers, Graciela M. Rusch, Juan E. Sala, Catharina J.E. Schulp, Nadia Sitas, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Sebastian Villasante, Alexander Van Oudenhoven
Science On Ecosystems And People To Support The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Matthias Schröter, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Christian Albert, Rosemary Hill, Torsten Krause, Jacqueline Loos, Lelani Mannetti, Berta Martín-López, Amrita Neelakantan, John A. Parrotta, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, David J. Abson, Rob Alkemade, Bas Amelung Amelung, Brigitte Baptiste, Edmundo Barrios, Houria Djoudi, Evangelia G. Drakou, Isabelle Durance, Marina García Llorente, Davide Geneletti, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Sander Jacobs, Nina N. Kaiser, Jonathan Kingsley, Sarah Klain, María José Martínez-Harms, Ranjini Murali, Patrick O’Farrell, Ram Pandit, Laura Pereira, Sakshi Rana, Maraja Riechers, Graciela M. Rusch, Juan E. Sala, Catharina J.E. Schulp, Nadia Sitas, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Sebastian Villasante, Alexander Van Oudenhoven
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Perspectives Of Southwest Florida Homeowners And Real Estate Agents Before Hurricane Ian, Risa Palm, Toby Bolsen
Perspectives Of Southwest Florida Homeowners And Real Estate Agents Before Hurricane Ian, Risa Palm, Toby Bolsen
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In September 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida, causing an estimated $67 billion in damage and the loss of almost 150 lives. Before this date, demand and house prices in this area were rising faster than anywhere else in the country. What did homeowners in southwest Florida believe about flood risk to their own homes, and what did real estate agents believe about the role of flood risk in the residential housing market? The survey research summarized in this article shows that not only did residents feel that they were not particularly at risk from flooding, but also …
How Buses Alleviate Unemployment And Poverty: Lessons From A Natural Experiment In Clayton, Ga, Fei Li
How Buses Alleviate Unemployment And Poverty: Lessons From A Natural Experiment In Clayton, Ga, Fei Li
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Many studies have documented the linkage between public transportation and economic outcomes, though there is relatively little empirical evidence on the consequences of losing existing transit services, especially bus services, which disproportionately serve low-income populations. We investigate the impacts of bus access on poverty and employment using a natural experiment in Clayton County, GA, where the local bus transit was terminated between 2010 and 2015. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find substantial increases in poverty and unemployment rates in affected neighborhoods during the five-year period. Our findings suggest both the spatial mismatch hypothesis, which predicts the reduction in transit access …
The Role Of Diverse Values Of Nature In Visioning And Transforming Towards Just And Sustainable Futures, Adrian Martin, Patrick O’Farrell, Ritesh Kumar, Uta Eser, Daniel Faith, Erik Gomez- Baggethun, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Juliana Merçon, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Nadia Sitas, Yuki Yoshida, Tobias Nyumba Ochieng, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Natalia Lutti Hummel, Lelani Mannetti, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles
The Role Of Diverse Values Of Nature In Visioning And Transforming Towards Just And Sustainable Futures, Adrian Martin, Patrick O’Farrell, Ritesh Kumar, Uta Eser, Daniel Faith, Erik Gomez- Baggethun, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Juliana Merçon, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Nadia Sitas, Yuki Yoshida, Tobias Nyumba Ochieng, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Natalia Lutti Hummel, Lelani Mannetti, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles
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The chapter assesses the role of nature’s diverse values in supporting social-ecological transformations towards more just and sustainable futures. This is approached as a two-fold and mutually complementing task: a) assessing the diverse values that have been considered in developing and creating visions for, and scenarios of the future, particularly those relating to more just and sustainable futures; and b) assessing how interventions to incorporate more plural valuation into decisions can serve as leverage points for enabling and governing transformation towards just and sustainable futures.
Beyond Academia: A Case For Reviews Of Gray Literature For Science-Policy Processes And Applied Research, Yuki Yoshida, Nadia Sitas, Lelani Mannetti, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, David Gonzalez Jimenez, Valerie Nelson, Aidin Niamir, Zuzana V. Harmáčková
Beyond Academia: A Case For Reviews Of Gray Literature For Science-Policy Processes And Applied Research, Yuki Yoshida, Nadia Sitas, Lelani Mannetti, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, David Gonzalez Jimenez, Valerie Nelson, Aidin Niamir, Zuzana V. Harmáčková
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Gray literature is increasingly considered to complement evidence and knowledge from peer-reviewed literature for science-policy processes and applied research. On the one hand, science-policy assessments need to both consider a diversity of worldviews, knowledge types and values from a variety of sectors and actor groups, and synthesize policy-relevant findings that are salient, legitimate and credible. On the other hand, practitioners and scholars conducting applied research, especially in environmental and health-related fields, are affected by the time lag and documented biases of academic publication processes. While gray literature holds diverse perspectives that need to be integrated in science-policy processes as well …
How Negative Frames Can Undermine Public Support For Studying Solar Geoengineering In The U.S., Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, Justin Kingsland
How Negative Frames Can Undermine Public Support For Studying Solar Geoengineering In The U.S., Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, Justin Kingsland
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Scientists and policymakers have become interested in the viability of solar geoengineering as a way to manipulate the Earth’s temperature in the face of unabated global warming. This paper reports the results from a survey experiment designed to test predictions about the effects of exposure to framed messages about basic scientific research on solar geoengineering. Our findings reinforce other survey research showing that solar geoengineering is a generally unfamiliar concept, but also show that this topic has not yet become politicized. In addition, despite treatments of equal valence, we find that negative information can exert a more powerful influence than …
The Times Of Splintering Urbanism, Jean-Paul Addie
The Times Of Splintering Urbanism, Jean-Paul Addie
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The twentieth anniversary of Splintering Urbanism’s publication is an apropos moment to consider the significance of time in, and for, critical infrastructure studies. This commentary brings Splintering Urbanism into dialogue with Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis to explore how time and temporality can (re)frame, extend, and challenge how we engage and analyze the networked metropolis. As an empirical concern, conceptual framework, and methodological approach, “infrastructure time” discloses commonalities and contradictions emerging across the infrastructure turn, enriching our understanding of the production of infrastructure space and helping us pose questions about urbanization, urban politics, and the urban condition in new and generative ways
Disconnected In A Pandemic: Covid-19 Outcomes And The Digital Divide In The United States, Fei Li
Disconnected In A Pandemic: Covid-19 Outcomes And The Digital Divide In The United States, Fei Li
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities related to the digital divide. With the wide adoption of remote working and learning, telehealth, and virtual events and social activities, the technology have-nots and know-nots experienced substantial marginalization and elevated risks of COVID-19 exposure in daily lives. This study discusses the pathways through which digital exclusion could aggravate the impacts of the pandemic and explored the linkage between digital access and COVID-19 outcomes in U.S. counties. It finds that counties with higher percentages of digitally excluded populations have seen higher COVID-19 case and death rates throughout the pandemic and lower vaccination rates by …
Effects Of Conspiracy Rhetoric On Views About The Consequences Of Climate Change And Support For Direct Carbon Capture, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, Justin Kingsland
Effects Of Conspiracy Rhetoric On Views About The Consequences Of Climate Change And Support For Direct Carbon Capture, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, Justin Kingsland
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We implemented two survey-experiments to test the impact of conspiracy rhetoric on the views of US residents about the consequences of climate change and support for direct carbon capture. The first study focused on how receptive respondents were to a scientific report on the impacts of climate change when they were also presented with conspiracy-based criticism of the report’s conclusions. The second study explored how conspiracy rhetoric criticizing a report recommending the consideration of direct carbon capture influences support for the technology. We assess the effects of exposure to the conspiracy claims both in isolation and in contexts where scientific …
Atlanta Eds And Meds: Collaboration Or Competition, Sam A. Williams
Atlanta Eds And Meds: Collaboration Or Competition, Sam A. Williams
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Metropolitan Atlanta’s universities and hospitals (“Eds and Meds”), with more than 340,000 jobs created, make a larger contribution to the metro area economy than its Fortune 500 headquarters. Its universities have many joint research projects, but major hospitals are much more competitive. Best practice cities showed much more collaboration across the board. This study describes the eleven significant collaborative projects in detail, how and when they were started, the university and medical partners, federal, state and other funding sources. Surprisingly with less than half the hospitals and many major universities participating, significant breakthroughs for global health including COVID-19, EBOLA, HIV-AIDS, …
How Does An Expansion Of Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Affect Housing Supply?, Fei Li, Zhan Guo
How Does An Expansion Of Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Affect Housing Supply?, Fei Li, Zhan Guo
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Mandatory inclusionary housing, which requires private developers to include a portion of affordable housing units in market-rate developments, has become an internationally popular policy instrument to recapture land value and create affordable housing. Two common criticisms of mandatory inclusionary housing are that 1) it produces limited affordable housing and 2) it constrains housing supply and pushes up housing prices. In this study we examined how private developers responded to an expansion of a strong mandatory inclusionary housing scheme in London (UK). Between 2005 and 2008, each of the 33 local authorities in Greater London extended their affordable housing requirements, previously …
Housing Vacancy And Hypervacant Neighborhoods: Uneven Recovery After The U.S. Foreclosure Crisis, Austin Harrison, Dan Immergluck
Housing Vacancy And Hypervacant Neighborhoods: Uneven Recovery After The U.S. Foreclosure Crisis, Austin Harrison, Dan Immergluck
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We examine neighborhood housing vacancy patterns in the largest 200 metropolitan areas from 2012 to 2019, focusing especially on Sunbelt and Rustbelt metros, both hit hard by the 2007–2011 foreclosure crisis. We pay special attention to neighborhood “hypervacancy,” where large amounts of long-term vacant housing are most likely to impose negative impacts. We find that, in the Sunbelt, hypervacant tracts declined over the 2012 to 2019 period, while they remained constant in Rustbelt metros. Despite this, the results show that hypervacant neighborhoods do exist in the Sunbelt, especially in slower-growth metros. We find that hypervacancy is heavily racialized; hypervacant tracts …
Racial Justice And The Mortgage Market: Recommendations To The Biden Administration Regarding The Future Of The Gses, Dan Immergluck
Racial Justice And The Mortgage Market: Recommendations To The Biden Administration Regarding The Future Of The Gses, Dan Immergluck
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In many ways, these essays expose the enormity of the project of housing finance reform. Housing finance is underpinned by assessments of risk and value that have not escaped their racist origins, and many essays in this series grapple, in different ways, with the question of whether and how we can take those threads out of the fabric. But our authors also offer steps forward that policymakers can take action on immediately to reform the GSEs, the CRA, the real estate industry, and more. Equally importantly, these essays offer a vision of what housing finance might look like beyond the …
Rethinking “Disinvestment”: Historical Geographies Of Predatory Property Relations On Chicago’S South Side, Rea Zaimi
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As vacancy in Rust Belt cities becomes a focal point of planning and policy efforts, Chicago planners and private institutions attribute it to “disinvestment” and seek to remove barriers to real estate investment in order to unlock the market’s purported ability to bring land to “productive use.” Drawing on findings from an analysis of nearly 10,000 postwar property records in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, this article demonstrates that vacancy stems not from disinvestment but from predatory and hyperextractive investments in housing that derive economic feasibility and legal sanction from property’s historical articulation with race. I argue that …
Urban Life In The Shadows Of Infrastructural Death: From People As Infrastructure To Dead Labor And Back Again, Jean-Paul Addie
Urban Life In The Shadows Of Infrastructural Death: From People As Infrastructure To Dead Labor And Back Again, Jean-Paul Addie
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Grounded in the writings of AbdouMaliq Simone and the theoretical project of Southern urbanism, the concept of “people as infrastructure” has radically reframed how we understand and study urban infrastructure as a modality of social practice. This paper begins by appraising the impact that people as infrastructure has had on urban geography and critical infrastructure studies before moving to consider how notions of infrastructural violence can deepen our understanding of the concept’s content and context. In particular, this intervention brings people as infrastructure into dialogue with the Marxist concept of “dead labor” to bridge experiential and structural epistemic readings of …
Sea Level Rise, Homeownership, And Residential Real Estate Markets In South Florida, Xinyu Fu, Jan Nijman
Sea Level Rise, Homeownership, And Residential Real Estate Markets In South Florida, Xinyu Fu, Jan Nijman
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This article builds on a small but rapidly growing body of research that seeks to determine the impact of sea-level rise on the pricing of residential properties. Through a spatial hedonic regression analysis of real estate markets in two Florida counties (Miami–Dade and Pinellas), we assess the influence of different exposure levels on market discounts. Our article stands out in terms of its focus on two comparative case studies and its differentiation between properties that are primary homes versus nonprimary homes. We find that generally discounts are positively associated with exposure levels and overall Miami–Dade experiences higher discounts than Pinellas …
“Don’T Tell Me What To Do”: Resistance To Climate Change Messages Suggesting Behavior Changes, Risa Palm, Toby Bolsen, Justin Kingsland
“Don’T Tell Me What To Do”: Resistance To Climate Change Messages Suggesting Behavior Changes, Risa Palm, Toby Bolsen, Justin Kingsland
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This study evaluates the impact of exposure to messages that emphasize the need for changes in individual behavior or in public policy to address climate change attributed to a “climate scientist” or to an unnamed source. We implemented a large survey experiment (N = 1915) online through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform that manipulated the presence of recommendations for voluntary behavioral changes or the adoption of new laws to mitigate climate change. We found that, regardless of the source of the information, recommendations for behavioral changes decreased individuals’ willingness to take personal actions to reduce greenhouse gases, decreased willingness …
Housing Stability, Evictions, And Subsidized Rental Properties: Evidence From Metro Atlanta, Austin Harrison, Daniel Immergluck, Jeff Ernsthausen, Stephanie Earl
Housing Stability, Evictions, And Subsidized Rental Properties: Evidence From Metro Atlanta, Austin Harrison, Daniel Immergluck, Jeff Ernsthausen, Stephanie Earl
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Evictions cause substantial harm to lower-income families. The effects range from homelessness to job loss, school turnover, and deteriorating health. Previously evicted tenants can be pushed down-market and forced to accept substandard housing. Housing subsidy might be expected to reduce eviction rates and provide greater stability. However, little systematic research has examined the eviction rates of subsidized, affordable rental properties and compared them to nonsubsidized, market-rate properties. We examine eviction filings for multifamily rental buildings in five-county metropolitan Atlanta, using a data set of eviction filings, property characteristics, and ownership information. We identify the subset of buildings that are subsidized …
Stuck Inside The Urban With The Dialectical Blues Again: Abstraction And Generality In Urban Theory, Jean-Paul Addie
Stuck Inside The Urban With The Dialectical Blues Again: Abstraction And Generality In Urban Theory, Jean-Paul Addie
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This article discusses how critical urban theory understands generalisation and particularity by unpacking the process of abstraction. It develops an urban interpretation of dialectics through the philosophy of internal relations to: (i) heuristically examine conceptual and political fissures within contemporary urban studies and (ii) critically recalibrate neo-Marxist planetary urban theorising. Examining the conceptual extension, levels of generality and vantage points of our abstractions can assist in constructively negotiating relations between urban difference and generality. The challenge is not which assertions are true based on a given epistemological position, but which abstractions are appropriate to address specific issues, given the range …
Will Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Create Mixed-Income Communities? Evidence From London, Uk, Fei Li, Zhan Guo
Will Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Create Mixed-Income Communities? Evidence From London, Uk, Fei Li, Zhan Guo
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Mandatory inclusionary housing, which requires market-rate housing developments to include a proportion of affordable housing units, has the potential to deliver affordable housing in more affluent neighborhoods and create mixed-income communities. This study evaluates this potential effect in London, United Kingdom, where mandatory inclusionary housing has been implemented in all local authorities since the early 2000s. Comparing the spatial concentration and average neighborhood characteristics of affordable housing delivered under inclusionary housing and those created via conventional means (i.e., in the public or nonprofit sector), we find that a higher percentage of inclusionary affordable units are concentrated in a small number …
Framing The Origins Of Covid-19, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm
Framing The Origins Of Covid-19, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm
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Conspiracy theories have flourished about the origins of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes an acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) in humans. This paper reports the results from a study that evaluates the impact of exposure to framed messages about the origins of Covid-19. We tested four hypotheses: two focusing on its origins as either zoonotic or human-engineered, and two concerning the impacts of origin beliefs on the desire to penalize China or support increased funding for biomedical research. The results accentuate the importance of finding ways to combat the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories related to this global pandemic.
The Battle Of The Belts: Comparing Housing Vacancy In Larger Metros In The Sun Belt And The Rust Belt Since The Mortgage Crisis, 2012 To 2019, Austin Harrison, Daniel Immergluck
The Battle Of The Belts: Comparing Housing Vacancy In Larger Metros In The Sun Belt And The Rust Belt Since The Mortgage Crisis, 2012 To 2019, Austin Harrison, Daniel Immergluck
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As a result of the 2007-2011 mortgage crisis, cities across the US experienced an unprecedented increase in housing vacancy. Since 2012, the broad national housing market has generally experienced a recovery, but it has been a highly uneven recovery. This paper focuses on changes in neighborhood-level, long-term vacancy rates from 2012 to 2019 in two critical regions of the US, the Sunbelt and the Rustbelt. We examine medium-sized and large metro areas in both regions. We focus particularly on the extent to which very high rates of neighborhood-level housing vacancy persisted during the recovery. Perhaps unsurprisingly, long-term, very high levels …
Anchoring (In) The Region: The Dynamics Of University-Engaged Urban Development In Newark, Nj, Usa, Jean-Paul D. Addie
Anchoring (In) The Region: The Dynamics Of University-Engaged Urban Development In Newark, Nj, Usa, Jean-Paul D. Addie
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While academic and policy analyses have explored universities’ roles in urban regeneration and regional development, issues arising from intraurban collaboration and competition in multi-university city-regions have received scant attention. In response, this paper examines how higher education institutions (HEIs) connect and splinter urban space at multiple scales through a case study of Newark, NJ, USA. Newark’s attempts to reposition itself as a hub for university-enabled innovation disclose the complex ways in which the infrastructures of knowledge urbanism are implemented, negotiated, and spatialized at local and city-regional scales. The study’s multi-disciplinary analysis assesses the discourses, technologies, and territorial constellations through which …
Regionalizing The Infrastructure Turn: A Research Agenda, Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, Jen Nelles
Regionalizing The Infrastructure Turn: A Research Agenda, Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, Jen Nelles
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An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a regional perspective to the infrastructure turn. This paper forwards a critical research agenda for the study of ‘infrastructural regionalisms’ to interrogate: (1) how we study and produce knowledge about infrastructure; (2) how infrastructure is governed across …
Review Of New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory And The Scale Question By Neil Brenner, Jean-Paul D. Addie
Review Of New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory And The Scale Question By Neil Brenner, Jean-Paul D. Addie
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New Urban Spaces is a landmark contribution to urban and regional studies. Through a rich, dense and provocative argument, Neil Brenner synthesizes over a decade-and-a-half's work on state rescaling, globalization and urban governance into a comprehensive and radical retheorization of urbanization.
The Impact Of Message Source On The Effectiveness Of Communications About Climate Change, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, Justin Kingsland
The Impact Of Message Source On The Effectiveness Of Communications About Climate Change, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, Justin Kingsland
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We conducted a survey experiment in which we presented 1,850 respondents with one of two versions of an appeal emphasizing either the threats to the environment or threats to national security of the United States as a result of climate change. The messages were attributed to one of four sources: Republican Party leaders, Democratic Party leaders, military officials, or climate scientists. The results reveal that messages attributed to military leaders, or to Republican Party leaders, can enhance the impact of the appeal. This finding underscores the importance that the source of any communication can have on its overall effectiveness.
In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure?, Jean-Paul D. Addie
In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure?, Jean-Paul D. Addie
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The aim of this chapter is to develop an analytically meaningful framework to analyze ‘suburban infrastructure’ by paying concerted attention to how infrastructures relate to the production and experience of dynamic and highly variegated suburban environments. My approach is built around two conceptual triads: the first unpacks the modalities of infrastructures as they exist in, for, and of suburbs (broadly understood as the landscapes of extended urbanization); the second discloses the political economic processes (suburbanization), lived experience (suburbanism), and dynamics of mediation internalized by particular suburban infrastructures. I am not concerned with the tasks of ensuring definitional rigor or bounding …