Neighborhood Change and Gentrification Near Three Urban Trails
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Torsha Bhattacharya; Tracy Loh; Greg Lindsey; Yunlei Qi
- Source
- Findings (2021)
- Subject
- Treatment and control groups
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Census block
Geography
General Engineering
HT101-395
Context (language use)
sense organs
Economic geography
Gentrification
Transportation and communications
HE1-9990
- Language
- ISSN
- 2652-8800
This paper describes changes in indicators of gentrification in neighborhoods adjacent to recently opened multiuse trails in three US cities. We hypothesize changes are greater in abutting Census Block Groups (CBGs) than in CBGs further from the trails and use a case-control, pre-post design to report changes in gentrification status and related indicators three years after opening. We provide evidence of gentrification near each trail, but in two cases the majority of gentrifiable CBGs in treatment groups remained gentrifiable after three years. Rates and degree of gentrification associated with new trails differ depending on context.