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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.40,Issue2,P.246-260

语言

英文

关键字

POLITICAL-ECONOMY; PROPERTY-VALUES; RESPONSE RATES; GROWTH; TRANSFORMATION; REGENERATION; BELTLINE; VOUCHER; QUALITY

作者单位

[Hsieh, Lin-Han Chiang] Chung Yuan Christian Univ, Dept Environm Engn, 200 Chung Pei Rd, Taoyuan 32023, Taiwan. [Noonan, Douglas] Indiana Univ Purdue Univ, Sch Publ & Environm Affairs, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA. Hsieh, LHC (reprint author), Chung Yuan Christian Univ, Dept Environm Engn, 200 Chung Pei Rd, Taoyuan 32023, Taiwan. E-Mail: chianghsieh@cycu.edu.tw

摘要

The Atlanta BeltLine (BeltLine) is a large urban redevelopment project that is transforming 22 miles of historical railroad corridors into parks, trails, pedestrian-friendly transit, and affordable housing in the center of Atlanta, Georgia. This study examines how proximity to the BeltLine and other factors relate to public support for it, with data from a general public survey conducted in the summer of 2009. The result shows that support significantly declines as distance to the BeltLine increases. However, after controlling for expected use of the BeltLine parks and transit, the role of distance fades. Further, the results show that being a parent within the city limits is associated with the support for the BeltLine, which implies that the concern over tax increment financing (TIF) affecting future school quality hampers the support of the project. The findings point to individual tastes and family circumstances as driving support for the redevelopment project, rather than strictly property-specific attributes (as the homevoter hypothesis would predict). Another contribution of this study is to address the technical problem of missing precise spatial location values. Several imputation techniques are used to demonstrate the risks and remedies to missing spatial data.