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来源

URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW,Vol.55,Issue2,P.558-590

语言

英文

关键字

cooperatives; commercial corridors; economic development; business improvement districts; community development; COMMUNITY-DEVELOPMENT; MODEL

作者单位

[Zitcer, Andrew] Drexel Univ, Westphal Coll Media Arts & Design, Dept Architecture Design & Urbanism, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. [Dilworth, Richardson] Drexel Univ, Polit, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. [Dilworth, Richardson] Drexel Univ, Dept Polit, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. [Dilworth, Richardson] Drexel Univ, Ctr Publ Policy, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Dilworth, R (reprint author), Drexel Univ, 3600 Market St,7th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. E-Mail: rd43@drexel.edu

摘要

We explore cooperatives' potential to play governing roles in neighborhood commercial corridors (NCCs) by examining one grocery cooperative in Philadelphia that has had stores on three NCCs in the city. We distinguish between an anchor institution role, where one organization provides collective goods for the corridor, and governance, where multiple corridor stakeholders collectively provide goods. We conclude that a cooperative will more likely play a governance role if it enters an NCC at a point when there are no other potential corridor-governing organizations, and when the NCC itself is at an early stage of development or redevelopment. What this suggests more generally about NCCs is that the organizations present at their founding or at a critical juncture have a large impact on their future developmental trajectories. We argue further that a cooperative is more likely to play a governance role when it was created by neighborhood stakeholders and it thus reflects the distinct social norms of the neighborhood.