Contested Land Use Planning: A Case Study Of A Grassroots Neighborhood Organization, A Medical Complex, And A City. Knowles-Yanez & Lynne, K. Ph.D. Thesis, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign,, Urbana, 1997. Ph.d.
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This case study examines a contested land use planning process involving a municipality, a medical complex, and a neighborhood organization in a mid-sized Mid-Western city. In response to neighborhood changes related to the medical complex's expansion, residents formed a neighborhood organization. Close study of the entry of the neighborhood organization into the land use planning process and their success in seeing some of their concerns addressed in the final development agreement between the city and medical complex provided an opportunity to learn more about grassroots neighborhood organizations and planning processes. This case study qualitatively analyzes themes derived by the author from data (interviews, meeting notes, and documentation) covering the two and a half year period between the formation of the neighborhood organization and the city council's adoption of the medical complex's development agreement. Researchers have characterized neighborhood organizations in two ways: as mediating between individuals and broader structures of society, and as restricted in meaningful participation by the city's emphasis on local economic development. Players in this case study offered competing perspectives: the medical complex and city's actions were based in the managerial and pluralist, while the neighborhood organization's claims were communitarian. This case study explores (1) how the setting within which city planners acted was a strong counter to the participation of citizens in the land use planning process, and (2) how the neighborhood organization mediated, engaged participation, nurtured discussion of ethical issues related to the community, and offered residents an opportunity to engage their competing communitarian perspective in planning issues affecting the neighborhood. The adversarial nature of the neighborhood organization's claims provided a sometimes effective counter to the structural limitations of city planning efforts.
@phdthesis{ knowles-yanez_contested_1997,
  address = {Urbana},
  title = {Contested {Land} {Use} {Planning}: {A} {Case} {Study} {Of} {A} {Grassroots} {Neighborhood} {Organization}, {A} {Medical} {Complex}, {And} {A} {City}},
  abstract = {This case study examines a contested land use planning process involving a municipality, a medical complex, and a neighborhood organization in a mid-sized Mid-Western city. In response to neighborhood changes related to the medical complex's expansion, residents formed a neighborhood organization. Close study of the entry of the neighborhood organization into the land use planning process and their success in seeing some of their concerns addressed in the final development agreement between the city and medical complex provided an opportunity to learn more about grassroots neighborhood organizations and planning processes. This case study qualitatively analyzes themes derived by the author from data (interviews, meeting notes, and documentation) covering the two and a half year period between the formation of the neighborhood organization and the city council's adoption of the medical complex's development agreement. Researchers have characterized neighborhood organizations in two ways: as mediating between individuals and broader structures of society, and as restricted in meaningful participation by the city's emphasis on local economic development. Players in this case study offered competing perspectives: the medical complex and city's actions were based in the managerial and pluralist, while the neighborhood organization's claims were communitarian. This case study explores (1) how the setting within which city planners acted was a strong counter to the participation of citizens in the land use planning process, and (2) how the neighborhood organization mediated, engaged participation, nurtured discussion of ethical issues related to the community, and offered residents an opportunity to engage their competing communitarian perspective in planning issues affecting the neighborhood. The adversarial nature of the neighborhood organization's claims provided a sometimes effective counter to the structural limitations of city planning efforts.},
  school = {University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign,},
  author = {Knowles-Yanez, Kimberley Lynne},
  year = {1997},
  note = {Ph.d.}
}

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