Doctoral Dissertation Research: Linking Changing Uses of Property with Urban Transformations

在社会和经济压力时期，组织如何合作修改财产法的规则和规范，以便未使用的土地可以作为共同资源被激活？为什么，即使条件似乎成熟，一些这样的合作没有结出果实？该项目有助于正在进行的城市复原力跨学科研究，并为人们如何在城市环境中创造和管理公共资源提供了新的视角。它是通过调查美国的人和组织如何做到这一点的？中国最大的城市周期性地组织和解散土地管理制度，将土地作为一种公共资源。关于使用的长期协议灵活地部署城市资源，使社区能够应对不断变化的优先事项。 公共资源的治理长期以来一直是社会科学关注的焦点;很少有关于城市弹性和财产制度的学术研究在理论上得到历史证据的支持。该项目结合档案和人种学方法，探索19世纪90年代至今芝加哥城市农业和财产法之间的联系。人种学部分包括与政策组织的合作研究。 最后一部分发展了两个当代案例研究作为比较点。通过从过去的城市复原力和正在进行的土地使用实验中学习，该项目旨在为未来的城市政策和规划提供信息。它最终将通过一份政策报告提出可能的体制设计，以管理作为共同生产资源的城市土地。 该报告将有助于城市考虑土地重新开发以满足不断变化的需求。 此外，该项目还将对学生进行社会科学方面的培训。

During periods of social and economic stress, how do organizations collaborate to rework rules and norms of property law so that unused land can be activated as a common resource? And why, even when conditions might seem ripe, do some such collaborations not bear fruit?This project contributes to ongoing interdisciplinary research on urban resilience, and sheds new light on how people bring about and govern common resources in urban settings. It does so by investigating how people and organizations in one of America?s largest cities have periodically organized, and dissolved, regimes for governing land as a common resource. Long term agreements concerning use deploy urban resources flexibly to allow communities to address changing priorities. Governance of common resources has long been a focus of concern across the social sciences; little scholarship on urban resilience and property regimes is theoretically informed by historical evidence. The project combines archival and ethnographic methods to explore connections between urban farming and property law in Chicago, between the 1890s and today. The ethnographic component includes collaborative research with policy organizations. The final part develops two contemporary case studies as points of comparison. By learning from past episodes of urban resilience and ongoing land-use experimentation, the project aims to inform future urban policy and planning. It will ultimately propose, through a policy report possible institutional designs for governing urban land as a common productive resource. The report will be useful for cities as they consider land redevelopment to address changing needs. In addition, the project will train students in the social sciences.