Popup landscapes: a new trigger to push up land value?

Author(s)
Susanna Schaller, Sandra Guinand
Abstract

Through a qualitative analysis of pop-up landscapes on Philadelphia's Delaware Waterfront, this paper examines how entrepreneurial urban actors, such as municipal officials, urban planning agencies, and landscape designers, strategically harness to catalyze investment. While pop-up landscapes have disrupted negative associations with the waterfront, providing a space for people to reimagine the city and playing an active role as an integrative public space, the paper argues that there are reasons to be skeptical about the long-term goals the pop-up landscapes serve, given the widespread focus on real estate-led development.

Organisation(s)
Department of Geography and Regional Research
External organisation(s)
City University of New York
Journal
Urban Geography
Volume
39
Pages
54-74
No. of pages
21
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1276719
Publication date
01-2017
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
507007 Land use planning
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Geography, Planning and Development, Urban Studies
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 15 - Life on Land
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/000f7f1a-e082-4e31-aa99-ce6165635c32