Tearing down the city to save it? 'Back-door regionalism' and the demolition coalition in Cleveland, Ohio

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ID4139939
AutoresEmily Rosenman (0000-0002-7230-7939, University of British Columbia, autor correspondente), Samuel Walker (0000-0002-7067-7987, University of Toronto)
Ano2016
Volume48
Fascículo2
Páginas273-291
Data de publicação2016-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x15609741
OpenAlexW2280901089
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas27

In this paper, we explore what Cleveland, Ohio's program of demolishing abandoned and foreclosed houses can teach us about the logics and politics of post-2007 austerity urbanism. We investigate the emergence of a local political coalition that has promoted demolition as a solution to the city's housing crisis. In tracking how this political consensus is spatialized, we analyze how demolition both supports and complicates existing theories of austerity urbanism. We theorize demolition as a spatio-temporal fix, a locally negotiated response to the larger-scale political-economic limits imposed by neoliberal austerity. This fix occurs at both the neighborhood level, where demolitions clear land for future reinvestment, and at the regional level, where the increasingly more-than-urban nature of the US housing crisis allows demolitions to gain regional support among fragmented municipalities. In the seemingly paradoxical pursuit of demolition as a growth strategy, political actors in cities like Cleveland aggressively push to tear down the city in a desperate attempt to save it

Archaeology · Austerity · Civil engineering · Demolition · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban politics · Urbanism · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning · Architecture