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

在社会和经济压力时期，组织如何合作修改物权法的规则和规范，以便将未使用的土地作为公共资源来激活？为什么即使在条件看似成熟的情况下，一些这样的合作却没有取得成果？这个项目为正在进行的关于城市韧性的跨学科研究做出了贡献，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。它通过调查美国最大的城市之一的个人和组织是如何定期组织和解散作为公共资源的土地管理制度来做到这一点的。关于使用的长期协议灵活地部署城市资源，使社区能够处理不断变化的优先事项。公共资源的治理长期以来一直是整个社会科学关注的焦点；关于城市复原力和财产制度的学术研究很少从理论上得到历史证据的启发。该项目结合档案和民族志方法，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的案例研究作为比较。通过从过去的城市复原力和正在进行的土地使用试验中吸取教训，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制度设计，将城市土地作为一种共同的生产性资源进行管理。这份报告将有助于城市考虑重新开发土地，以满足不断变化的需求。此外，该项目还将培训学生学习社会科学。

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.