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Do Parking Standards Matter? Evaluating The London Parking Reform With A Matched-Pair Approach, Fei Li, Zhan Guo
Do Parking Standards Matter? Evaluating The London Parking Reform With A Matched-Pair Approach, Fei Li, Zhan Guo
USI Publications
Minimum parking standards, which require developers to build a certain amount of off-street parking spaces, are increasingly criticized for leading to excess parking supply and automobile travel in recent years. However, due to the difficulty in identifying the policy effect, few empirical studies have directly and accurately estimated the effects of parking standards on parking supply. The present study examines a parking reform in London, UK, where minimum parking standards for residential developments were replaced with maximum standards in the early 2000s. Using planning application records, we match neighboring pre-reform and post-reform developments to estimate the effect of the parking …
Measuring Urban Segregation Based On Individuals’ Daily Activity Patterns: A Multidimensional Approach, Fei Li, Donggen Wang
Measuring Urban Segregation Based On Individuals’ Daily Activity Patterns: A Multidimensional Approach, Fei Li, Donggen Wang
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This paper develops a methodology to measure urban segregation based on individuals’ sociospatial experience of daily life. Since segregation can be considered as the isolation of people from those unlike themselves, its degree increases with the similarity in ethnicity, economic status, or other sociodemographic dimensions of interest between individuals and people who they are exposed to in their daily usage of urban space. Based on this perspective, we propose a regression estimator that measures segregation by assessing similarity or likeness between people and the social environments they experience in daily activity spaces. Compared to traditional segregation measures, the proposed estimator …
University College London: Leveraging The Civic Capacity Of ‘London’S Global University', Jean-Paul Addie, James Paskins
University College London: Leveraging The Civic Capacity Of ‘London’S Global University', Jean-Paul Addie, James Paskins
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Foreclosures And Neighborhoods: The Shape And Impacts Of The U.S. Mortgage Crisis, Daniel Immergluck
Foreclosures And Neighborhoods: The Shape And Impacts Of The U.S. Mortgage Crisis, Daniel Immergluck
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The U.S. mortgage crisis beginning in 2007 resulted in very high levels of foreclosures in many neighborhoods around the country. In addition to harming individual households, foreclosures had negative spillover effects on nearby properties and households, including lower property values and higher crime rates. To understand the effects of foreclosures on households and neighborhoods, it is important first to understand the demographic and geographic distributions of foreclosures and how they may have changed during the foreclosure crisis, which persisted for more than five years, from 2007 to beyond 2012. Spurred in part by the crisis, dozens of studies have been …
From The Urban University To Universities In Urban Society, Jean-Paul Addie
From The Urban University To Universities In Urban Society, Jean-Paul Addie
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The impacts of neoliberalization and the global extension of urbanization processes demand a reappraisal of the urban university for the 21st century. The history of the modern urban university, and current calls for universities to assume proactive roles as economic drivers and civic leaders, disclose problematic tendencies, including: normalizing local/global binaries; focusing on a narrow set of university-city connections; and constructing the university and the city as monolithic rational agents. In response, this paper draws on Lefebvre’s theory of urban society to mobilize mediation, centrality, and difference as a mode of critique and strategic orientation for a …
Theorising Suburban Infrastructure: A Framework For Critical And Comparative Analysis, Jean-Paul Addie
Theorising Suburban Infrastructure: A Framework For Critical And Comparative Analysis, Jean-Paul Addie
USI Publications
Suburban infrastructure holds a position of increasing geographic, political and conceptual importance in a rapidly urbanizing world. However, the analytical significance of ‘suburban infrastructure’ risks becoming bogged down as a chaotic concept amidst the maelstrom of contemporary peripheral urban growth and the explosion of interest in infrastructure in critical urban studies. This paper develops an open and flexible comparative theory of suburban infrastructure. I eschew concerns with definitional bounding to focus analytical attention on the relations between ‘the suburban’ (broadly considered) and multiple hard and soft infrastructures. These relations are captured in two ‘three-dimensional’ dialectical triads: the first unpacks the …