Reconsidering Blight: Land Use Planning and the Making of Problem Properties
Reconsidering Blight: Land Use Planning and the Making of Problem Properties
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152136
- ISBN
- 9798383687840
- DDC
- 910
- 서명/저자
- Reconsidering Blight: Land Use Planning and the Making of Problem Properties
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 182 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Pickles, John.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation traces a history of the institutionalization of "blight" in US planning, public health, and law during the first two decades of the 20th century. In geographical scholarship, blight is conventionally examined in the context of midcentury urban renewal and adduced as a flexible discourse that facilitated the violent postwar remaking of US racial and economic geographies. Social scientists and historians almost univocally attribute the concept's academic validity, if not origin, to the Chicago School of Sociology's urban ecological theories and its political force to the term's ambiguity and allusion to agricultural disease. For many, blight's incorporation into federal housing policy and eminent domain jurisprudence marks a dramatic reorganization of US property relations.This study rethinking this conventional narrative by situating blight as integral to the professionalization of planning and examining the long period required to effectively render some urban properties vulnerable to expropriation. Using professional planning, real estate, and public health literature and case law, I demonstrate that blight maintained a more stable and legible institutional meaning than typically accounted for: stagnant or falling land values, often caused by depopulation. I argue that the term functioned as a rubric through which urbanists in several professionalizing fields could debate, experiment, and develop consensus about what would constitute the causes and consequences of residential property devaluation in the modern city. From this perspective, blight appears not as an empty cipher nor an opportunistic discourse that functions through a vague sense of threat, but a logical outcome of the commodification of housing in an economy organized around race and property.This research contributes to ongoing scholarly conversations about the relations between early North American land use planning and property by providing an account of how planners drew on, and diverged from, extant ideas about land, value, and ownership to develop new categories of property and owners deemed unworthy of the full bundle of rights and entitlements afforded by convention and law.
- 일반주제명
- Geography
- 일반주제명
- Urban planning
- 일반주제명
- Land use planning
- 키워드
- Urban properties
- 키워드
- Political force
- 키워드
- Housing policy
- 키워드
- Urban ecology
- 기타저자
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Geography
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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