The effects of physical restructuring on the socioeconomic status of neighbourhoods
Selective migration and upgrading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10864476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Merle Zwiers (0000-0003-2042-4110, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, corresponding author), Maarten Van Ham (0000-0002-2106-0702, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; University of St Andrews, UK), Reinout Kleinhans (0000-0002-5714-2128, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1647-1663 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0042098018772980 |
| OpenAlex | W2610104892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
In the last few decades, many governments have implemented urban restructuring programmes with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived neighbourhoods. The main instrument of restructuring has been housing diversification and tenure mixing. The demolition of low-quality (social) housing and the construction of owner-occupied or private rented dwellings was expected to change the population composition of deprived neighbourhoods through the in-migration of middle- and high-income households. Many studies have been critical with regard to the success of such policies in actually upgrading neighbourhoods. Using data from the 31 largest Dutch cities for the 1999 to 2013 period, this study contributes to the literature by investigating the effects of large-scale demolition and new construction on neighbourhood income developments on a low spatial scale. We use propensity score matching to isolate the direct effects of policy by comparing restructured neighbourhoods with a set of control neighbourhoods with low demolition rates, but with similar socioeconomic characteristics. The results indicate that large-scale demolition leads to socioeconomic upgrading of deprived neighbourhoods as a result of attracting and maintaining middle- and high-income households. We find no evidence of spillover effects to nearby neighbourhoods, suggesting that physical restructuring only has very local effects
Business · Demographic economics · Demolition · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Population · Restructuring · Scale (ratio · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Spillover effect · Demography · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |