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Making Room for Manufacturing: Understanding Industrial Land Conversion in Cities

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  • Thomas W. Lester
  • Nikhil Kaza
  • Sarah Kirk

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Problem, research strategy, and findings: Planners face tension when dealing with the stock of urban industrial land: Should they enact industrial land preservation policies to protect viable manufacturers that provide good jobs even if it exacerbates the problem of affordable housing and causes cities to forgo growth in other sectors? Planners need better information on the underlying forces that lead to conversion of industrial land and an assessment of the effectiveness of preservation policies. We develop here an index of vulnerability of industrial land that is based on location factors, neighborhood dynamics, detailed industrial trends, environmental hazards, and local regulations. We show how these factors can explain the probability of the conversion of industrial land to other uses in Cook County (IL) and Mecklenburg County (NC) and describe how various industrial preservation polices are effective in limiting conversion.Takeaway for practice: Cities can use this index to strategically plan for industries to target and sites to preserve as industrial uses. Traditional planning and regulatory tools such as industrial zone designations do reduce conversion risk, while factors such as transit accessibility increase the probability of conversion. We argue that local governments should be strategic about which manufacturing industries can be preserved at what locations using these tools. We also develop and demonstrate an open source, interactive, web-based tool that demonstrates some of the key concepts that can be replicated in other places.

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  • Thomas W. Lester & Nikhil Kaza & Sarah Kirk, 2013. "Making Room for Manufacturing: Understanding Industrial Land Conversion in Cities," Journal of the American Planning Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 79(4), pages 295-313, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjpaxx:v:79:y:2013:i:4:p:295-313
    DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2014.915369
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    1. Green, Jamaal William, 2018. "Zoning for Jobs- Industrial Land Preservation in the Nation's Largest Cities," OSF Preprints ud345, Center for Open Science.
    2. Congguo Zhang & Di Yao & Yanlin Zhen & Weiwei Li & Kerun Li, 2022. "Mismatched Relationship between Urban Industrial Land Consumption and Growth of Manufacturing: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-35, August.
    3. Zeenat Kotval-K, 2016. "Brownfield Redevelopment," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 30(3), pages 275-282, August.
    4. Zhiheng Yang & Shaoxing Li & Dongqi Sun & Chenxi Li & Jiahui Wu, 2022. "Intensive Evaluation and High-Quality Redevelopment of Enterprise Land Use: A Case Study in China," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-17, March.
    5. Sarah De Boeck & Michael Ryckewaert, 2020. "The Preservation of Productive Activities in Brussels: The Interplay between Zoning and Industrial Gentrification," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(3), pages 351-363.
    6. Libin Guo & Lina Han & Huikun Hong & Tao Zhou, 2018. "Research on the Enhancement Effects of Using Ecological Principles in Managing the Lifecycle of Industrial Land," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-14, June.

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