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Vacant Urban Land and Neighborhood Sustainability: An Enhanced Understanding of the Multidimensionality, Reciprocity, and Spatial Heterogeneity

Chen, Liang
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3690-9887
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu16820055750965

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, City and Regional Planning.
As a familiar landscape of American neighborhoods, vacant urban land evokes negative images and is often conceived as a barrier to sustainable development. To enhance the knowledge of vacant land and facilitate evidence-based policymaking, this research examines the relationship between vacant urban land and critical neighborhood sustainability measures in the largest Midwestern city, Chicago, Illinois. In particular, this research, consisting of three essays, offers an in-depth observation and investigation of the multidimensionality, reciprocal causality, and spatial heterogeneity of the relationship. This research has three primary findings: (1) the associations between vacant land and neighborhood sustainability measures are multidimensional and differ by individual measures, (2) vacant land has solid reciprocal associations with crime and poverty at the neighborhood scale over time, and (3) the associations between vacant land and neighborhood sustainability measures are spatially non-stationary. These findings encourage further studies to expand investigations to all sustainability dimensions and prompt vacant land management policies to be long-term and spatially adaptive for different urban contexts.
Maria Manta Conroy, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Mattijs van Maasakkers, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Yasuyuki Motoyama, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
185 p.
Urban Planning
Vacant Land; Neighborhood Sustainability

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  • Chen, L. (2023). Vacant Urban Land and Neighborhood Sustainability: An Enhanced Understanding of the Multidimensionality, Reciprocity, and Spatial Heterogeneity [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu16820055750965

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chen, Liang. Vacant Urban Land and Neighborhood Sustainability: An Enhanced Understanding of the Multidimensionality, Reciprocity, and Spatial Heterogeneity. 2023. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu16820055750965.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chen, Liang. "Vacant Urban Land and Neighborhood Sustainability: An Enhanced Understanding of the Multidimensionality, Reciprocity, and Spatial Heterogeneity." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu16820055750965

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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