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Title: Latino Revitalization as "blight:" generative placemaking and ethnic cultural resiliency in Woodburn, Oregon
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: Latinos in Woodburn are transforming the downtown area via their generative placemaking efforts. They have saved the historic Main Street by investing in small businesses, helping to establish a Latino-themed downtown public plaza, and adding a multicultural flair to the town. The generative placemaking that has transpired in Woodburn is also currently occurring in other Latino new growth destinations around the country (Sandoval and Maldonado 2012; Trabalzi and Sandoval 2010). We argue that Latino business owners in downtown Woodburn have relied on generative placemaking strategies, which strengthen cultural resiliency, to overcome the town's racialized climate and challenge the towns' regulative planning institutions that have characterized their downtown Latino business community as "blighted".
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Authors: Sandoval, Gerardo; Herrera, Roanel
Editors: Burayidi, Michael; Allen, Adriana; Twigg, John; Wamsler, Christine
Pages: 243-259
Volume Title: The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience
Publisher: Routledge
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Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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