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"It Takes a Village?": Assessing Economic and Social Equity Outcomes Under Seattle's Urban Villages Policy

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dc.contributor.authorWostenholme, Lucien
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-18T15:02:48Z
dc.date.available2023-05-18T15:02:48Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-18
dc.description.abstractThe coupling of rapid economic and population growth in urban areas around the world presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly within the realms of equity and sustainability. Over the last 50 years, the City of Seattle has witnessed this fast-paced growth firsthand; to manage it, the city implemented a novel planning policy in its 1994 comprehensive plan: the Urban Village Element. Originally designed to promote equitable and sustainable development in delineated villages, the plan has faced challenges in speeding redevelopment, spurring housing construction, and securing an equitable future for city residents. This paper centers itself around a qualitative and quantitative study of urban equity-determining factors, implementing a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the average treatment effect of Seattleā€™s urban villages policy on social equity relative to neighborhoods outside of villages. This paper concludes by extrapolating those findings to present-day conversations about urban densification and growth management, including the 15-Minute City.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of City and Regional Planning at Cornell Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/113157
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjecturban planningen_US
dc.subjectseattleen_US
dc.subjectsocial equityen_US
dc.subjecturban economicsen_US
dc.subjecteconometric analysisen_US
dc.title"It Takes a Village?": Assessing Economic and Social Equity Outcomes Under Seattle's Urban Villages Policyen_US
dc.typedissertation or thesisen_US

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