Journal of Planning Education and Research

Spicer, Jason S.; Casper-Futterman, Evan

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20929070pmid: N/A

Building from the “Progressive Cities” era toolkit, advocates of community economic development (CED) today deploy a wide range of new and well-established strategies. How can planners make theoretical and practical sense of these varying tactics? Using New York as a case and sociological strategic action field theory as a framing device, we find evidence of three distinct CED logics: exactive/concessionary, localist, and transformative/democratic. We differentiate these logics based on their relationship to neoliberalism and globalization, forces which have shaped CED’s historical development. Awareness of these ideal-type logics may assist planners and CED actors in selecting and coordinating contextually appropriate strategies.

Ferreira, António

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20940797pmid: N/A

This article presents the intellectual legacy of Clare Graves, an American professor of psychology, and its relevance for planning as an academic and professional field characterized by worldview diversity and, therefore, also by dilemmas and conflicts. The argument is structured by the sequential answers to four questions: how to determine the most appropriate worldview for a given planning situation; how to navigate in planning contexts characterized by worldview diversity; how to manage worldview-based conflicts; and how to educate planners for effectively dealing with worldview diversity. A discussion on planning ethics concludes the article.

Mattiuzzi, Elizabeth; Chapple, Karen

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20937287pmid: N/A

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently awarded regional planning grants to seventy-four regions, raising the question of whether these regions were able to form lasting cross-sectoral knowledge communities (“epistemic communities”). We conduct in-depth case studies examining the politics and mechanics of how epistemic communities formed and have continued in regions where it might be challenging to do so (in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia), finding that the planning process promoted the growth of regional networks and incipient governance. We trace the new collaboration to the federal program, suggesting a role for higher levels of government in fostering regionalism.

Buehler, Ralph

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20901575pmid: N/A

Stiphany, Kristine

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20905662pmid: N/A

Vazquez, Leonardo

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20916756pmid: N/A

Yerena, Anaid

doi: 10.1177/0739456X19888000pmid: N/A

State retrenchment, public input requirements, and local budgetary constraints make advocacy organization’s (AO) work vital to the adoption and implementation of local plans. Yet, the strategies AOs use to influence policies have gone understudied in planning literature. The current study fills this gap through a case study of how AOs exert influence in planning for affordable housing in four cities in Los Angeles County. Data were collected through interviews (AO leaders and city officials), document review (AO materials), and content analysis of Housing Elements. The study found that the range of tactics depends on the political context and organizational resources.

Shamsuddin, Shomon

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20925162pmid: N/A

Urban planners face an affordable housing crisis compounded by federal programs that eliminated subsidized housing. Prior work indicates profit-making motivations and race influenced housing removal but overlooks planning efforts to rebuild affordable housing. This paper explores the neighborhood factors affecting the redevelopment of subsidized housing under the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) program, using multivariate regression analysis of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Census data. Findings show housing market indicators, racial composition, and poverty rates do not predict the mix of rebuilt units, which suggests opportunities for planning to promote affordable housing goals in public–private development projects.

Baker, Dwayne Marshall

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20929760pmid: N/A

This research uses St. Louis, Missouri’s proposed Delmar Loop Transit-oriented development (TOD) site as a case study to identify how private interests overshadow overall inclusivity within a TOD space. Through content analysis and interviews, I reveal how establishing the TOD site aims to expand the existing entertainment district, but excludes the site’s predominately black and more transit-dependent West End neighborhood in TOD planning activities. Recognizing how different spaces and residents are excluded in ongoing TOD planning processes aims to highlight the spaces and residents most at risk for future displacement—pointing planners to areas of needed interventions.

Dumbaugh, Eric; Saha, Dibakar; Merlin, Louis

doi: 10.1177/0739456X20931915pmid: N/A

Conventional transportation practice attributes traffic crashes to human error, leading to the prevailing assumption that crash prevention is principally an outcome of driver education and law enforcement programs. But what if planning and urban design decisions induce human errors? In this study, we examine the literature in organizational systems safety, cognitive psychology, and behavioral economics to detail how cognitive interpretations of the built environment may produce the errors that result in traffic crashes. We proceed to examine crash incidence in Charlotte-Mecklenberg County in light of this cognitive framework and discuss its implications for research and practice.