Engineering Main Street: The Spatial Dimension of Organizations and Revitalization in Boston

Principal Investigator

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  Taylor Cain

  Chief of Staff at the Boston Housing Authority; 2017 MONUM Summer Fellow; 2015 Early Stage Urban Research Award Recipient

Co-Principal Investigator

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  Japonica Brown-Saracino

  Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. candidate Taylor Cain, under the advisement of Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino, seeks to identify how place attributes (including income, racial/ethnic composition, and residential and commercial property values) influence the strategies for and consequences of revitalization in two geographically proximate Main Streets business districts in Boston.

Presentations

“Competitive Streets: Do Market Driven Principles Take Over Neighborhood Revitalization?” American Sociological Association Section on Economic Sociology Mini Conference. August 2016.

“Backstage on Main Street: The Organizational Mechanics of a Neighborhood’s Commercial Revitalization – (Boston).” The Dynamic City: Futures for the Past, Boston University. April 2016.
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“Backstage on Main Street: Conflicting Logics of Commercial Revitalization.” Eastern Sociological Association Conference. March 2016.

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