Inclusion and Exclusion in Establishing the Delmar Loop Transit-Oriented Development Site

2020/06/17 by Dwayne Marshall Baker
Social Sciences · #Urban Planning and Governance #Urban Transport and Accessibility #Urbanization and City Planning

paper · doi:10.1177/0739456x20929760

openalex publication_date 2020/06/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

This research uses St. Louis, Missouri’s proposed Delmar Loop Transit-oriented development (TOD) site as a case study to identify how private interests overshadow overall inclusivity within a TOD space. Through content analysis and interviews, I reveal how establishing the TOD site aims to expand the existing entertainment district, but excludes the site’s predominately black and more transit-dependent West End neighborhood in TOD planning activities. Recognizing how different spaces and residents are excluded in ongoing TOD planning processes aims to highlight the spaces and residents most at risk for future displacement—pointing planners to areas of needed interventions.

Citations

• Investigating the Connection Between Transit-Oriented Development and Displacement: Four Hypotheses
• The qualitative content analysis process
• Transit-Induced Gentrification: Who Will Stay, and Who Will Go?
• Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology

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