Juniper Publishers-Annals of Social Sciences & Management studies

Strategies for Spatial and Economic Development


Authored by Rupert Rhodd

The physical, economic and social distress in inner cities across the nation raises some questions about the efficacy of local development policies and programs. Property-and-life-threatening conditions in the inner cities tend to have very negative effects on the quality of life of residents. The conditions in their communities often have implications that are economic (disinvestment, unemployment, higher fees to pay for urban services) physical (aesthetic blight), social (crime and insecurity) and political (stereotype and neglect by mainstream). Among the tools by which government has responded to conditions in inner cities is redevelopment, also used interchangeably with renewal, revitalization and regeneration. Redevelopment is defined narrowly in the literature as a spatially-biased tool, a locally policy decision that focuses on older developed areas that are redeveloped for new use which at the same time removes unwanted activities or people. Through redevelopment policy and programs, city governments allocate tax dollars to seed inner city redevelopment. Today, redevelopment is gauged narrowly as effective only if the targeted areas enjoy a boon in property values, corporate headquarters locations, and mixed-use projects. As grandiose as some redevelopment projects may seem, they rarely get to the root causes of the problems that plague inner cities. In some cases, redevelopment projects exacerbate (and even cause) the physical and economic differences and imbalances between target and mainstream areas. Redevelopment is based on the physical deterministic principle that the physical environment is preponderant to the social and political environment in dictating how people live in their communities. Hence, redevelopment projects are often designed to enhance, invigorate, conserve, rehabilitate and/or gentrify a depressed and blighted area.

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