Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?: Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Urban and Industrial Environments)

This book examines neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement associated with development around transit. Cities worldwide encourage smarter growth and expand transit systems to reduce emissions and meet mobility needs. Despite research and policy interventions, we lack understanding of how transit development affects neighborhoods and residents. Research has failed to determine why some neighborhoods change while others don’t, and how race and class shape change in an increasingly unequal context.

Drawing on novel methods, this book sheds light on who benefits and loses from compact development around new transit stations. It connects quantitative regional patterns with qualitative research through interviews, field observations, and documentation in twelve California neighborhoods.

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