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Youth of color have experienced poor outcomes relative to their white counterparts historically, ... more Youth of color have experienced poor outcomes relative to their white counterparts historically, and these disparities persist today. Researchers have offered a number of explanations for these disparities, some of the more popular of which have focused on individual deficiencies. If one elucidates the underlying theories of change of dominant practices and public policies in the youth field, it appears that, despite variation in approach and emphasis, they too have focused on individual behavior. While behavior is clearly an important contributor to the outcomes that individuals experience, it is not the sole determinant. Rather, we contend that there are larger, structural factors that contribute to the racial disparities between youth of color and their white counterparts that deserve systematic and sustained attention
Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) require a large number of institutional actors to work... more Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) require a large number of institutional actors to work together on behalf of a neighborhood. The range of civic, social, economic, and physical development outcomes that CCIs seek cannot be achieved without collaboration and partnership. The CCIs of the 1990s taught us that although high-quality programmatic interventions are nec-essary for positive community change, attending to the nonprogrammatic dimensions of commu-nity change — especially individual and institu-tional capacities, roles, and relationships — is also an essential part of the process. In fact, weak implementation capacity and ineffective manage-ment have been found to undermine many other-
The Foundation Review, 2009
Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) require a large number of institutional actors to work... more Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) require a large number of institutional actors to work together on behalf of a neighborhood. The range of civic, social, economic, and physical development outcomes that CCIs seek cannot be achieved without collaboration and partnership. The CCIs of the 1990s taught us that although high-quality programmatic interventions are necessary for positive community change, attending to the nonprogrammatic dimensions of community change-especially individual and institutional capacities, roles, and relationships-is also an essential part of the process. In fact, weak implementation capacity and ineffective management have been found to undermine many otherwise promising initiatives whose community-level activities may have been well-theorized, welldesigned, and well-planned (Brown & Fiester, 2007; Kubisch et al., 2002; Potapchuk & Kopell, 2005). As the field has matured, it has become clear that creating effective working relationships among neighborhood organizations and then be
Journal of Regional Science, 2011
… through public health …, 2010
7 Structural Racism and Community Building KEITH LAWRENCE, STACEY SUTTON, ANNE KUBISCH, GRETCHEN ... more 7 Structural Racism and Community Building KEITH LAWRENCE, STACEY SUTTON, ANNE KUBISCH, GRETCHEN SUSI, and KAREN FULBRIGHT-ANDERSON Race and poverty are still strongly linked in America. Data from the 2000 US Census show that a person of color ...
Communities and Workforce Development, 2005
Corporation-for providing insightful answers to our questions about what the report suggests abou... more Corporation-for providing insightful answers to our questions about what the report suggests about the work that Living Cities should support as the development field moves forward. Finally we are grateful to Mark Weinheimer, the Director of the Cities Program, and Reese Fayde, the former Chief Executive Officer of Living Cities, who provided both funding and intellectual guidance for this work. About the Aspen Roundtable and the Authors The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change is a national forum for leaders engaged in innovative and promising community revitalization efforts to share experiences and lessons and to work on common challenges. The goal of the Roundtable is to strengthen the quality of policy, research, and practice in the community change field in order to improve outcomes for children, youth, families, and communities in distressed areas in the United States. This work focuses on a wide range of issuespoverty alleviation, employment, housing, racism, public health, education, youth development, child welfare, and criminal justice-as well as on strengthening community capacity, building social capital, promoting racial equity, advocacy and policy reform, and related dimensions of the change process. As a field-building institution, the Roundtable acts as a convener, technical advisor, clearinghouse, analyst, and disseminator of lessons learned. It conducts and disseminates research and analysis, and offers training and leadership development. For more information about the Roundtable and its publications, see: www.aspenroundtable.org
Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate ... more Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate about the scale, scope, and location of projects as well as their intended and inadvertent effects for urban landscapes, residents, and consumers. The term commercial revitalization is frequently used to characterize the resurgence of retail activity in neighborhoods previously considered moribund and perilous areas to avoid. In most instances, however, the factors animating commercial revitalization are implicitly assumed and, as such, are conceptually and empirically underdeveloped. This article elucidates commercial revitalization and focuses on the agency of neighborhood small business owners as underexplored stakeholders. Using the extended case methodology, this article examines Black business owners in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, who mounted a relatively successful campaign of retail restructuring by cultivating political clout, establishing civic alliances, participating in neighborho...
Previous research indicates that urban neighborhood renewal has become increasingly dominated by ... more Previous research indicates that urban neighborhood renewal has become increasingly dominated by conventional economic development. At the same time, many urban scholars have become increasingly critical of conventional economic development, particularly its narrowly defined goals, ideological biases, and the often limited social and economic interests shaping development outcomes. In conventional economic development practice, it is not uncommon for neighborhood insiders-residents, merchants, and community groups-to be relegated to positions of marginality during redevelopment discourse as outsiders-property developers and speculators, locally situated "international" institutions, corporate capital, and state actors-direct local planning and decision-making. In view of popular power asymmetries, I apply a temporal lens to examine processes of inner-city neighborhood revitalization. In so doing, I expose what I call "merchant effects," or the effects merchants have on the physical, social, commercial, institutional and communicative dimensions of neighborhoods. While merchant effects do not shift manifest power inequities associated with redevelopment, they emphasize the importance of reflecting on the type(s) of neighborhoods we hope to develop and the corresponding strategies we employ. Drawing on an extended case study of revitalization in Fort Greene, this paper complicates conventional understandings of economic development by first focusing on its antecedents and then on the myriad outcomes that are implicitly important for sustaining neighborhood improvement but often ignored or under-valued. I argue that in inner-city neighborhoods, minority merchants should be considered important insiders that influence revitalization processes in ways that go beyond conventional economic development contributions.
Submitted by: Dr. Stacey A. Sutton Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Director, Community & Ca... more Submitted by: Dr. Stacey A. Sutton Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Director, Community & Capital Action Research Lab (CARL) Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Columbia University This document was created through research and technical support from students at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. I specifically want to thank: Cuz Potter, Jeeyeop Kim, Daniel Steinberg, Jennifer Pehr and Soonmahn Park Submitted to: Dr. Kwangjoong Kim Seoul National University
Economic Development Quarterly, 2010
Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate ... more Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate about the scale, scope, and location of projects as well as their intended and inadvertent effects for urban landscapes, residents, and consumers. The term commercial revitalization is frequently used to characterize the resurgence of retail activity in neighborhoods previously considered moribund and perilous areas to avoid. In most instances, however, the factors animating commercial revitalization are implicitly assumed and, as such, are conceptually and empirically underdeveloped. This article elucidates commercial revitalization and focuses on the agency of neighborhood small business owners as underexplored stakeholders. Using the extended case methodology, this article examines Black business owners in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, who mounted a relatively successful campaign of retail restructuring by cultivating political clout, establishing civic alliances, participating in neighborho...
International Journal of Urban Sciences
Urban Affairs Review
Gentrification is characterized as a spatial manifestation of economic inequality. An unsettled d... more Gentrification is characterized as a spatial manifestation of economic inequality. An unsettled debate about gentrification is the extent to which it is also marked by distinct changes in neighborhood racial composition over time. This study uses a balanced panel of census data and retail data for New York City between 1970 and 2010 to extend prior research on the trajectory of gentrification and racial transition. This analysis finds an inverse relationship between Black and Latino residents and the pace of gentrification that increases over time. Consistent with theories of gentrification, it consistently trends with increasing household income. When income growth is disaggregated by race, Blacks and Latinos either have no effect or dampen the pace of gentrification by 2010. These findings support popular claims that even middle-class Blacks and Latinos are increasingly unable to remain in gentrifying neighborhoods as processes of change extend across the city.
Youth of color have experienced poor outcomes relative to their white counterparts historically, ... more Youth of color have experienced poor outcomes relative to their white counterparts historically, and these disparities persist today. Researchers have offered a number of explanations for these disparities, some of the more popular of which have focused on individual deficiencies. If one elucidates the underlying theories of change of dominant practices and public policies in the youth field, it appears that, despite variation in approach and emphasis, they too have focused on individual behavior. While behavior is clearly an important contributor to the outcomes that individuals experience, it is not the sole determinant. Rather, we contend that there are larger, structural factors that contribute to the racial disparities between youth of color and their white counterparts that deserve systematic and sustained attention
Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) require a large number of institutional actors to work... more Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) require a large number of institutional actors to work together on behalf of a neighborhood. The range of civic, social, economic, and physical development outcomes that CCIs seek cannot be achieved without collaboration and partnership. The CCIs of the 1990s taught us that although high-quality programmatic interventions are nec-essary for positive community change, attending to the nonprogrammatic dimensions of commu-nity change — especially individual and institu-tional capacities, roles, and relationships — is also an essential part of the process. In fact, weak implementation capacity and ineffective manage-ment have been found to undermine many other-
The Foundation Review, 2009
Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) require a large number of institutional actors to work... more Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) require a large number of institutional actors to work together on behalf of a neighborhood. The range of civic, social, economic, and physical development outcomes that CCIs seek cannot be achieved without collaboration and partnership. The CCIs of the 1990s taught us that although high-quality programmatic interventions are necessary for positive community change, attending to the nonprogrammatic dimensions of community change-especially individual and institutional capacities, roles, and relationships-is also an essential part of the process. In fact, weak implementation capacity and ineffective management have been found to undermine many otherwise promising initiatives whose community-level activities may have been well-theorized, welldesigned, and well-planned (Brown & Fiester, 2007; Kubisch et al., 2002; Potapchuk & Kopell, 2005). As the field has matured, it has become clear that creating effective working relationships among neighborhood organizations and then be
Journal of Regional Science, 2011
… through public health …, 2010
7 Structural Racism and Community Building KEITH LAWRENCE, STACEY SUTTON, ANNE KUBISCH, GRETCHEN ... more 7 Structural Racism and Community Building KEITH LAWRENCE, STACEY SUTTON, ANNE KUBISCH, GRETCHEN SUSI, and KAREN FULBRIGHT-ANDERSON Race and poverty are still strongly linked in America. Data from the 2000 US Census show that a person of color ...
Communities and Workforce Development, 2005
Corporation-for providing insightful answers to our questions about what the report suggests abou... more Corporation-for providing insightful answers to our questions about what the report suggests about the work that Living Cities should support as the development field moves forward. Finally we are grateful to Mark Weinheimer, the Director of the Cities Program, and Reese Fayde, the former Chief Executive Officer of Living Cities, who provided both funding and intellectual guidance for this work. About the Aspen Roundtable and the Authors The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change is a national forum for leaders engaged in innovative and promising community revitalization efforts to share experiences and lessons and to work on common challenges. The goal of the Roundtable is to strengthen the quality of policy, research, and practice in the community change field in order to improve outcomes for children, youth, families, and communities in distressed areas in the United States. This work focuses on a wide range of issuespoverty alleviation, employment, housing, racism, public health, education, youth development, child welfare, and criminal justice-as well as on strengthening community capacity, building social capital, promoting racial equity, advocacy and policy reform, and related dimensions of the change process. As a field-building institution, the Roundtable acts as a convener, technical advisor, clearinghouse, analyst, and disseminator of lessons learned. It conducts and disseminates research and analysis, and offers training and leadership development. For more information about the Roundtable and its publications, see: www.aspenroundtable.org
Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate ... more Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate about the scale, scope, and location of projects as well as their intended and inadvertent effects for urban landscapes, residents, and consumers. The term commercial revitalization is frequently used to characterize the resurgence of retail activity in neighborhoods previously considered moribund and perilous areas to avoid. In most instances, however, the factors animating commercial revitalization are implicitly assumed and, as such, are conceptually and empirically underdeveloped. This article elucidates commercial revitalization and focuses on the agency of neighborhood small business owners as underexplored stakeholders. Using the extended case methodology, this article examines Black business owners in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, who mounted a relatively successful campaign of retail restructuring by cultivating political clout, establishing civic alliances, participating in neighborho...
Previous research indicates that urban neighborhood renewal has become increasingly dominated by ... more Previous research indicates that urban neighborhood renewal has become increasingly dominated by conventional economic development. At the same time, many urban scholars have become increasingly critical of conventional economic development, particularly its narrowly defined goals, ideological biases, and the often limited social and economic interests shaping development outcomes. In conventional economic development practice, it is not uncommon for neighborhood insiders-residents, merchants, and community groups-to be relegated to positions of marginality during redevelopment discourse as outsiders-property developers and speculators, locally situated "international" institutions, corporate capital, and state actors-direct local planning and decision-making. In view of popular power asymmetries, I apply a temporal lens to examine processes of inner-city neighborhood revitalization. In so doing, I expose what I call "merchant effects," or the effects merchants have on the physical, social, commercial, institutional and communicative dimensions of neighborhoods. While merchant effects do not shift manifest power inequities associated with redevelopment, they emphasize the importance of reflecting on the type(s) of neighborhoods we hope to develop and the corresponding strategies we employ. Drawing on an extended case study of revitalization in Fort Greene, this paper complicates conventional understandings of economic development by first focusing on its antecedents and then on the myriad outcomes that are implicitly important for sustaining neighborhood improvement but often ignored or under-valued. I argue that in inner-city neighborhoods, minority merchants should be considered important insiders that influence revitalization processes in ways that go beyond conventional economic development contributions.
Submitted by: Dr. Stacey A. Sutton Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Director, Community & Ca... more Submitted by: Dr. Stacey A. Sutton Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Director, Community & Capital Action Research Lab (CARL) Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Columbia University This document was created through research and technical support from students at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. I specifically want to thank: Cuz Potter, Jeeyeop Kim, Daniel Steinberg, Jennifer Pehr and Soonmahn Park Submitted to: Dr. Kwangjoong Kim Seoul National University
Economic Development Quarterly, 2010
Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate ... more Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate about the scale, scope, and location of projects as well as their intended and inadvertent effects for urban landscapes, residents, and consumers. The term commercial revitalization is frequently used to characterize the resurgence of retail activity in neighborhoods previously considered moribund and perilous areas to avoid. In most instances, however, the factors animating commercial revitalization are implicitly assumed and, as such, are conceptually and empirically underdeveloped. This article elucidates commercial revitalization and focuses on the agency of neighborhood small business owners as underexplored stakeholders. Using the extended case methodology, this article examines Black business owners in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, who mounted a relatively successful campaign of retail restructuring by cultivating political clout, establishing civic alliances, participating in neighborho...
International Journal of Urban Sciences
Urban Affairs Review
Gentrification is characterized as a spatial manifestation of economic inequality. An unsettled d... more Gentrification is characterized as a spatial manifestation of economic inequality. An unsettled debate about gentrification is the extent to which it is also marked by distinct changes in neighborhood racial composition over time. This study uses a balanced panel of census data and retail data for New York City between 1970 and 2010 to extend prior research on the trajectory of gentrification and racial transition. This analysis finds an inverse relationship between Black and Latino residents and the pace of gentrification that increases over time. Consistent with theories of gentrification, it consistently trends with increasing household income. When income growth is disaggregated by race, Blacks and Latinos either have no effect or dampen the pace of gentrification by 2010. These findings support popular claims that even middle-class Blacks and Latinos are increasingly unable to remain in gentrifying neighborhoods as processes of change extend across the city.