Where houses replace warehouses: managing residential and mixed use redevelopment of deindustrialized urban areas
| Author(s) | Tierney, Gemma | |
| Date Accessioned | 2017-04-18T12:31:43Z | |
| Date Available | 2017-04-18T12:31:43Z | |
| Publication Date | 2017 | |
| Abstract | As many American cities have experienced significant population growth since the 1980s, their industrial areas often become the target of redevelopment pressure to meet rising demand for urban housing. This pressure comes from developers seeking to convert properties to higher rent land uses such as residential and mixed use, and municipal governments seeking to put vacant or underused properties into more active uses. Philadelphia’s West Washington Avenue is a legacy industrial area that has begun to experience this pressure over the last five years. In other former urban industrial areas that have undergone this pressure, municipal governments managed this process in many different ways, including regulating private developers, forming public-private partnerships, and initiating urban design programs. These management strategies have served to advance a variety of stakeholder land use planning goals. ☐ The built fabric of these legacy industrial areas offers a distinctive urban landscape grounded in its heritage as a place of industrial enterprise and labor. While many of these areas began as center for heavy industrial land uses such as foundries or coal yards, their contemporary built fabric conveys layers of industrial development. As city planning departments seek to manage the reinvestment and redevelopment activity that has appeared in these legacy industrial areas, the outcomes of their management strategies transform the area’s layout, functions, users and, in turn, its distinct landscape. ☐ This thesis argues that municipalities’ tactics for managing residential redevelopment in their legacy industrial areas will advance particular planning goals and bolster particular land uses, consequently altering the area’s built environment and physical heritage through selective restoration and new construction. Cities manage residential and mixed use redevelopment pressure on their legacy industrial areas at varying levels of permissibility and to diverse, sometimes disparate, economic, social and political ends. However, these management strategies share the fact that they alter the character of the area’s streets, sidewalks, and buildings. West Washington Avenue is analyzed to formulate recommendations for management tactics that consider not only stakeholder goals but also the physical and spatial impacts on a distinct urban landscape. | en_US |
| Advisor | Sheppard, Rebecca J. | |
| Degree | M.A. | |
| Department | University of Delaware, School of Public Policy and Administration | |
| Unique Identifier | 982657379 | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/21232 | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| URI | https://search.proquest.com/docview/1884791641?accountid=10457 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Deindustrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Land use -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Housing development -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| Title | Where houses replace warehouses: managing residential and mixed use redevelopment of deindustrialized urban areas | en_US |
| Type | Thesis | en_US |