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来源

CITY & COMMUNITY,Vol.18,Issue1,P.109-127

语言

英文

关键字

URBAN; URBANIZATION; SEGREGATION; AMENITIES; RACE

作者单位

[Elliott, James R.; Bolger, Daniel] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77251 USA. [Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA. Elliott, JR (reprint author), Rice Univ, Dept Sociol, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005 USA. E-Mail: jre5@rice.edu

摘要

This study examines the historical establishment and shifting residential access to city parks over time. It begins by engaging and extending a theory of urbanization as socioenvironmental succession. It then assembles and analyzes longitudinal data on city park creation and neighborhood change in Houston from 1947 to 2015. Results reveal how socially privileged residents have long enjoyed unequal access to city parks as well as strong influence over where new ones are established. At the same time, growing minority populations have managed to gain more equitable access not by having new parks come to them so much as by moving into neighborhoods where Whites once lived. These dynamics obscure past processes and patterns of inequality while allowing newer, unexpected ones to emerge. We conclude with a discussion of what these findings imply for understanding not just unequal access to city parks but broader processes of urbanization.