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Hogen-Esch, Tom Jan.

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Recapturing suburbia: Urban secession and the politics of growth in Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle (California, Massachusetts, Washington).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Recapturing suburbia: Urban secession and the politics of growth in Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle (California, Massachusetts, Washington)./
Author:	Hogen-Esch, Tom Jan.
Description:	395 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Michael B. Preston.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-12A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3073794
ISBN:	0493938990

Recapturing suburbia: Urban secession and the politics of growth in Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle (California, Massachusetts, Washington).
Hogen-Esch, Tom Jan.

Recapturing suburbia: Urban secession and the politics of growth in Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle (California, Massachusetts, Washington). - 395 p.

Adviser: Michael B. Preston.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2002.

This study examines the formation of territorially-based social movements to secede from the cities of Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle. The central contention is that urban secession movements are best understood within the context of a city's growth politics. First, it is argued that the goal of protecting the community from external land use threats fueled each social movement. The dissertation traces the rise of Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment (Valley VOTE) in San Fernando Valley and Neighborhood Rights in West Seattle as “small property” coalitions to combat the threat of residential and commercial disinvestment, low-income housing, and other forms of urbanization. Unlike the Valley and West Seattle, in Boston, decades of public and private-sponsored capital investment threatened to displace the city's minority population from Greater Roxbury. In response, community activists formed the Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project (GRIP) to protect the city's minority communities from wholesale displacement.

ISBN: 0493938990Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

Recapturing suburbia: Urban secession and the politics of growth in Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle (California, Massachusetts, Washington).
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520 $a This study examines the formation of territorially-based social movements to secede from the cities of Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle. The central contention is that urban secession movements are best understood within the context of a city's growth politics. First, it is argued that the goal of protecting the community from external land use threats fueled each social movement. The dissertation traces the rise of Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment (Valley VOTE) in San Fernando Valley and Neighborhood Rights in West Seattle as “small property” coalitions to combat the threat of residential and commercial disinvestment, low-income housing, and other forms of urbanization. Unlike the Valley and West Seattle, in Boston, decades of public and private-sponsored capital investment threatened to displace the city's minority population from Greater Roxbury. In response, community activists formed the Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project (GRIP) to protect the city's minority communities from wholesale displacement.
520 $a Second, the study finds that current theories fail to adequately explain instances where pro and slow growth forces act collectively to reproduce urban space. Existing literature typically depicts home and business organizations as either bitter land use foes, or occasional allies on the issue of lower taxes. Valley VOTE and Neighborhood Rights/WSDF illustrate ways in “small property” seeks to impose a common land use vision based on creating an optimal balance of residential and commercial amenities.
520 $a Third, comparison of Valley VOTE and Neighborhood Rights/WSDF with GRIP highlights fundamental differences in the nature of coalition building between two types of protectionist social movements. It is argued that differences between the processes of investment and disinvestment fundamentally shape the formation and maintenance of urban social movements. The case of GRIP/FATE reveals that social movements to prevent gentrification invariably find their base of support not among property owners, but tenants seeking to prevent their displacement. The comparison highlights the likelihood that poor communities with low levels of property ownership may be less able to protect their vision of urban space.
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