Keep Country Country: Urbanormativity and Implications for Planning in Rural Spaces
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2024
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Within both urban and rural studies, many geographers identify a common theme of gentrification as, “a change in the social composition of an area with members of a middle-class group replacing working-class residents'' (Phillips, 1993). Additionally, the drivers of urban and rural gentrification are essentially the same, however, the determination of identifying ‘undercapitalized’ ground rents in urban and rural areas differs (Darling, 2005). The ideology of urbanormativity permeates our cultural landscape and has influenced the way planners and policymakers work in rural communities. This has inadvertently facilitated the widespread gentrification of gateway and amenity-rich regions. While planning has contributed to the current state of rural gentrification, it is also uniquely poised to empower individuals and communities and ameliorate this very phenomenon. Using a mixed methods approach I consider the case of the Flathead Valley in Montana and analyze these drivers and impacts of gentrification. My findings suggest that residents and planners alike find planning ill-equipped to combat gentrification. My research also suggests that urbanormativity is present in these communities and influences community relationships as well as the ways that planners approach their work. I identify tools that can be utilized to address gentrification and build capabilities in communities and individuals alike. These solutions span land use and housing interventions, planning curriculum itself, and community-based participatory planning methods.
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Urban planning, Land use planning, amenity migration, gateway communities, planning, rural gentrification, urbanormativity
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115 pages
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