Planning the Barrio

Racial Order and Restructuring in Neoliberal Los Angeles

Bibliographic Data

ID6404885
AuthorsAlfredo Huante (0000-0002-5181-8270, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume58
Issue4
Pages996-1027
Publication date2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10780874211021332
OpenAlexW3170293561
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited51

Scholarship examining the legacy of early twentieth-century zoning and real estate practices on present-day urban landscapes has provided significant insight into the ways public officials appraised communities of color at the national and city scale. However, less is known about how local policy makers evaluated communities of color through the social movements of the 1970s and austerity policies of the 1980s. Analyzing Los Angeles City planning and administrative archives from the 1970s to 1990s, I assess how local policy makers arrived at regarding historically racialized and disinvested places such as Boyle Heights as potential sites of investment during the last quarter of the twentieth century. I find that city policy makers briefly categorized Boyle Heights as fit for preservation grounded in its socioracial composition and, later, designated the barrio as ancillary to intensifying efforts to revitalize downtown. Following the evolution of appraisals of land use during this period of transformation historicizes contemporary gentrification processes

Archaeology · Austerity · Downtown · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Political science · Politics · Quarter (Canadian coin · Real estate · Restructuring · Scholarship · Urban planning · Urban policy · Zoning · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies