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Title: The People-Place Dilemma: The Challenge for Anchor Networks in Legacy Cities
Language: English
Authors: Todd Swanstrom, Ifeanyi Ukpabi, Elaina Johns-Wolfe
Source: Metropolitan Universities. 2024 35(1):167-186.
Availability: Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252. Tel: 410-704-3700; Fax: 410-704-2152; e-mail: cumu@towson.edu; Web site: http://www.cumuonline.org
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, School Community Relationship, Higher Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Urban Problems, Social Problems, Partnerships in Education, Metropolitan Areas, Geographic Distribution, School Business Relationship, Contracts, Personnel Selection, Census Figures, Institutional Characteristics, Participant Observation, Low Income Groups, Barriers
Geographic Terms: Missouri (Saint Louis)
ISSN: 1047-8485
Abstract: Anchor movements rest on the premise that people- and place-based initiatives can be mutually reinforcing. The community development movement, however, has been haunted for years by the people-place dilemma -- the idea that efforts to help people harm efforts to uplift places and vice versa. Most of the literature on the anchor strategy has focused on one horn of the dilemma, namely, the problem that revitalizing a place may lead to rising housing costs that burden and ultimately displace longtime lower-income residents of the neighborhood. In this article, we examine the other horn of the people-place dilemma -- that helping people in disinvested communities may enable them to move elsewhere, leaving behind poorer communities. We examine this issue through a case study of the St. Louis Anchor Action Network (STLAAN), a collaboration of 16 anchor institutions. St. Louis is a classic legacy city that once enjoyed rapid growth but is now characterized by a falling population and high poverty. We document longstanding trends that have drained STLAAN's focus geography of people and resources, as well as more recent growth of an "eds and meds" economy that presents an opportunity to address decades of disinvestment and decline. We document STLAAN's efforts to invest in its focus geography and the people who live there and conclude with research proposals that could help guide anchor initiatives facing similar challenges.
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