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Energy & Equity in Kansas City : The Green Impact Zone (GIZ)
NRE 537 Urban Sustainability
11/17/16
Calli, Prathmesh and Ryan
The Racialization of Space
1923: Racially Restrictive Covenants
Example of a racially restrictive covenant in Washington, DC 1958
(DC Public Records, courtesy of Prologue DC)
1934: Federal Housing Act
United States. Congress. Public Law 73-479, 73d Congress, H.R. 9620 , Box 54, Folder 1, William McChesney Martin, Jr.,
Papers.https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/scribd/?item_id=457156, accessed on November 16, 2016.
Housing Acts of 1949 and 1954
Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1954.
Truman_initiating_Korean_involvement.jpg
1960s: Civil Rights Counter-Mobilization
http://i0.wp.com/www.ambrosekane.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Civil-Rights-8.jpg
1968-1970s: FHA's Section 235 Program
https://goo.gl/images/NouV8S
The Significance of Troost Avenue
“Built a wall” to divide whites/blacks
● Land use & marketing strategy which
leveraged Troost Ave. to divide white /
blacks
● Kansas City “served as a model” for post
World War II suburban growth
Troost Avenue Aftermath:
● ‘White-Flight’ to West Side of Kansas City
● Led to decades of GIZ disinvestment &
eventual energy poverty issues
1957 NAREB advertisement discouraging whites from living on the eastern
side Troost Ave. (i.e. present day GIZ neighborhoods). From Gotham
Viewing the Troost Avenue Divide in Social Explorer
The GIZ Difference
The GIZ Difference
● Championed by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II
● 5 target neighbourhoods
● Funding of around $170 million dollars
● Unique model of community involvement, participation, and engagement
● Multiple Stakeholders
Local StakeholdersCommunity Development Corps.
Neighborhood AssociationsResidents & Volunteers
FundersFederal (ARRA)
City of KCU.S. Dept of TransportationKansas City Power & Light
Administration MARC
US DOEGIZ
Missouri DNR
GIZOUTCOMES
Focus Areas
http://www.greenimpactzone.org/strategies
Strategy
● Information, Outreach and Education
● Understanding the Community
● Instilling belief
● Taking Action
● Delivery
● Change
http://www.greenimpactzone.org/images/infographic.pdf
Achievements
http://www.greenimpactzone.org/images/infographic.pdf
Political Ecology
The Political Ecology Components Surrounding GIZ Outcomes
FundersFederal (ARRA)
City of KCU.S. Dept of TransportationKansas City Power & Light
Administration MARC
US DOEGIZ
Missouri DNR
Local StakeholdersCommunity Development Corps.
Neighborhood AssociationsResidents & Volunteers
GIZOUTCOMES
Historical Land Use Policy & Real Estate PracticesRacialization of Space
Policy Barriers
Winners vs Losers
Market Barriers
Regulatory Requirements
Priorities of Allocated
Funds
Federal Priorities
Decades of Disinvestment
Up-Front Costs
Power Relations
(Landlord v. Renter)
Political Ecology
Power Relations Structural Barriers to
Entry
Winners & Losers of
allocated funds
● Politics as usual:
Reallocated Funds
● Landlord holds card in
‘Split Incentive’
Scenario
● Time required to train &
mobilize new workforce
● Up Front Cost to
Weatherize
● Regulatory
Requirements (ARRA)
● Bureaucratic Priorities
● Public Priorities
Activity Questions for Reference
● How can each of the following characteristics of political ecology be applied to the
KC case?
● What were the impacts of the capitalist market-system?
● How did the market-system result in uneven geographic distribution of goods/bad?
● Who are the winners and losers? Did they stay the same throughout the
implementation of the GIZ?
● What does the chain of explanation look like that lead to the establishment of the
GIZ?
● How can the GIZ be seen as a “seed”?
● What evidence is there of methodological pluralism throughout the GIZ process?
Questions?