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New urbanism and race: An analysis of neighborhood racial change in suburban Atlanta

ABSTRACT Since 2000, local governments, planning agencies, and private development firms have sought to revitalize aging spaces in Atlanta’s suburbs by experimenting with new urbanist (re)development projects. Proponents of this strategy have lauded the potential of these projects to enhance social integration between people of diverse ages, races, and incomes. However, critics argue that, in practice, new urbanism has often failed to substantially increase racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity and may even facilitate residential segregation and displacement. This research contributes to these debates by using linear regressions to analyze how new urbanist projects constructed between 2000 and 2013 in Atlanta’s suburban town centers have impacted racial change in the neighborhoods where they have been built. Results suggest that new urbanist project construction is significantly correlated with declining Hispanic populations and increasing White populations, supporting arguments that theorize new urbanism as a tool to effectively whiten select spaces.