GEOG 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Public Housing, Automobile Dependency, List Of House Types
1 Feb 2016
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Neighborhood change: result of conscious planning and interactions within that space: aging of physical environment (special); deteriorations, aging of residents (social); socio-demographic change, movement of households; mobility. Dependent quality of construction, level of maintenance. I. e. , older = less likely to do repairs themselves. Obsolescence old being undertaken by something else. Built for homogeneous consumer; as they age housing may filter to new cohort which has new set of expectations and demands. Filtering of housing (vacancy) chains moving down the housing market. Depend on location, housing type, and socioeconomic status of home owner. Houses moving along series of home owners. May move from high income down to middle/lower classes. Demographic changes = opp. for investment and disinvestment in neighborhoods. Physical change + socio-demographic change + obsolescence = discourage investment. Neighborhood lifecycle model: 5 stages **add last stage to slides: suburbanization, infilling, downgrading/determination, thinning out, renewal or rehabilitation and gentrification (i. e. , suburbs)
