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| Title: | | Blessing or curse? Appreciation, amenities and resistance around the Berlin 'Mediaspree'  |
| Authors: | | Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Hamburg contemporary economic discussions 32 |
| Abstract: | | This article investigates the 2008 referendum held in opposition against the 'Mediaspree', a major urban development project in Berlin that has been perceived as a threat of displacement of local residents and culture. Using precinct level data we find a high degree of localized resistance around the project area, conditional on socio-demographic characteristics. Comparison to local appreciation rates shows that in an environment of very low owner occupancy public (re)development projects are opposed the more residents associate an increase in area valuation. This effects is, however, not strong enough to explain the localized resistance. Considering a micro-level data set on music nodes, our results suggest that resistance is rather attributable to a feared loss of specific cultural amenities and neighborhood character. |
| Subjects: | | Cultural Amenities Urban Development Displacement Hedonic Modeling Mediaspree |
| JEL: | | Z10 R20 |
| ISBN: | | 978-3-940369-79-6 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Hamburg Contemporary Economic Discussions, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftspolitik, Universität Hamburg
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