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The Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) movement seeks sweeping physical and behavioral changes in U.S. cities. It may also reinforce an inequitable trend of social change in those cities by supporting gentrification of devalorized neighborhoods and displacement of existing communities. This inequity can be understood in the context of the current paradigm of urban governance, focused on growth in the real estate sector and attempts to provide public services through partnerships with the private sector, described by Harvey as entrepreneurial urbanism. The active promotion of Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) by the public sector fits this paradigm while seeking to alleviate its inequitable effects. Through a series of twenty one in-depth interviews with ETOD promotion professionals, the authors examine the process of promoting ETOD, employing an interpretivist methodology to explore shared understandings of how entrepreneurial urban governance shapes and constrains possibilities and goals. The authors propose critical engagement with the entrepreneurial model and outline an alternative approach to ETOD promotion based on existing policy, governance and financial tools where it appears inappropriate.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD30 Standing Committee on Transportation and Land Development.

19-05060

English

17p

2019

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Entrepreneurs; Equity; Governance; Promotion; Transit oriented development; Urban renewal

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-05060

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 7 2018 9:43AM