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HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Utility of Frames: A Reply to Melendez and Coats

HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Utility of Frames: A Reply to Melendez and Coats HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Utility of Frames: A Reply to Melendez and Coats Melinda J. Milligan Sonoma State University Kevin Fox Gotham Tulane University James R. Elliott Tulane University Based on our analysis of New Urbanist frames, we suggest that HOPE VI provides both structural and interpretive political opportunities to actors competing to frame the trans- formation of public housing. As a structural opportunity, HOPE VI alters public-housing debates by enhancing the possibilities for political action by economic elites in compe- tition with other actors. As an interpretive opportunity, HOPE VI’s explicit embrace of New Urbanism supplies a novel and strategic vocabulary that actors can attempt to use to influence policy, alter political alignments, and raise the public profile and salience of particular issues. Although each of the participants we discuss wielded the linguistic tools of New Urbanism, the developer (HRI) was able to selectively deploy such themes most effectively to create and magnify critical local issues. Principals in the Urban Conservancy suggest that these claims and subsequent related analyses require more nuanced consid- eration along a number of important lines. Here, we take the opportunity to detail and respond to four questions we see as raised http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Utility of Frames: A Reply to Melendez and Coats

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Publisher
SAGE
ISSN
1535-6841
eISSN
1540-6040
DOI
10.1111/j.1535-6841.2004.00095.x
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Abstract

HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Utility of Frames: A Reply to Melendez and Coats Melinda J. Milligan Sonoma State University Kevin Fox Gotham Tulane University James R. Elliott Tulane University Based on our analysis of New Urbanist frames, we suggest that HOPE VI provides both structural and interpretive political opportunities to actors competing to frame the trans- formation of public housing. As a structural opportunity, HOPE VI alters public-housing debates by enhancing the possibilities for political action by economic elites in compe- tition with other actors. As an interpretive opportunity, HOPE VI’s explicit embrace of New Urbanism supplies a novel and strategic vocabulary that actors can attempt to use to influence policy, alter political alignments, and raise the public profile and salience of particular issues. Although each of the participants we discuss wielded the linguistic tools of New Urbanism, the developer (HRI) was able to selectively deploy such themes most effectively to create and magnify critical local issues. Principals in the Urban Conservancy suggest that these claims and subsequent related analyses require more nuanced consid- eration along a number of important lines. Here, we take the opportunity to detail and respond to four questions we see as raised

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City and CommunitySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2004

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