Doctoral Dissertation Research: Community Engagement and Land-Use Regulation

该项目的目标是确定社区对城市发展和旅游目的地建设发挥杠杆作用的社会进程。它专门调查当地居民如何参与土地使用法规，并坚持独特的文化框架，努力行使自己的利益。该研究采用定性案例研究的三个有争议的旅游开发网站在夏威夷的状态，社区成员成功地停止或减缓项目，或从开发商获得重大让步。为了进行对比分析，将研究第四个地点，在那里，社区努力影响一个大型沿海度假综合体的发展基本上是不成功的。数据将从公共记录、报纸、个人访谈和现有录像中收集。夏威夷旅游业驱动的城市化的首要地位使其成为产生理论的有用案例。夏威夷异常密集和强大的土地使用监管体系也使其成为揭示围绕城市增长监管的社会斗争的重要研究场所。最后，这个项目旨在将文化社会学的概念引入城市政治和城市社会学交叉点的辩论。这项研究将产生几个更广泛的影响，包括提供一个实证基础，通过对夏威夷独特的土地使用监管制度自1980年以来的首次系统调查，为夏威夷及其他地区的政策辩论提供信息。成果将通过会议介绍、社区小组会议以及向社区领导人和政府官员直接分发章节的方式与多学科受众分享。该项目将帮助社区组织者、研究人员和政策制定者更好地了解旅游业和城市发展所涉及的利害关系和社会斗争。研究结果还可为规划人员和政府官员提供如何将社区关注的问题纳入旅游业发展的实际经验。

The goal of this project is to identify the social processes through which communities exert leverage over urban development and the construction of tourism destinations. It specifically investigates how local residents engage with land-use regulations and assert distinctive cultural frameworks in efforts to exercise their interests. The research employs qualitative case studies of three contested tourism-development sites in the state of Hawaii in which community members successfully halted or slowed projects, or obtained significant concessions from developers. For analytical contrast, a fourth site will be examined in which community efforts to influence the development of a large coastal resort complex were largely unsuccessful. Data will be gathered from public records, newspapers, personal interviews, and existing video footage. The primacy of tourism-driven urbanization in Hawaii makes it a useful case for generating theory. Hawaii's unusually dense and robust land-use regulatory system also make it an important study site for revealing the social struggles surrounding urban growth regulation. Finally, this project aims to bring concepts from cultural sociology to bear on debates at the intersection of urban politics and urban sociology. This research will generate several broader impacts, including providing an empirical basis to inform policy debates in Hawaii and beyond through the first systematic investigation of Hawaii's unique land-use regulatory system since 1980. Results will be shared with multi-disciplinary audiences through conference presentations, community group meetings, and direct distribution of chapters to community leaders and public officials. This project will help community organizers, researchers, and policy-makers better understand the stakes and social struggles involved in tourism and urban development. Research results may also provide practical lessons to planners and public officials about how to incorporate community concerns into tourism-development.