Exploring Transiency in Four Urban Forest Patch Neighborhoods: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Greenspace Civic Activism
2.2. Public Housing Projects and Adjacent Neighborhoods
2.3. Neighborhood Transiency
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Informant Impressions of Urban Patch Neighborhoods: Unstructured Conversations
3.2. Neighborhood Transiency: Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) Analysis
4. Results
4.1. Informant Impressions of Forest Patch Neighborhoods
They sold [home owning neighbors], the family ended up selling the house to…investors. And the investors brought in Section 8 [HCV households]. And I don’t have a problem with Section 8. But they just threw them in there…. These people, probably because they’re so young…, they didn’t have that same buy-in to the community. And so that, “It’s-not-mine-I-ain’t-got-to-take care-of-it”—they brought that same thing to the community[30].
4.2. Neighborhood Transiency: Bivariate LISA Analysis
5. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
I-Tree Hydro Simulations
Parcel | Parcel Acreage (ha) | Landcover Scenario | Total Runoff (m3/yr) | Pervious Flow (m3/yr) | Impervious Flow (m3/yr) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jonesboro North | 9.28 (3.76) | 2007 | 31,136 | 24,614 | 5507 |
2020 | 19,290 | 15,830 | 0 | ||
Jonesboro South | 15.0 (6.07) | 2007 | 46,631 | 38,875 | 24,704 |
2020 | 30,464 | 24,704 | 0 | ||
2020 | 17,052 | 11,624 | 346 | ||
Leila Valley | 14.0 (5.67) | 2007 | 22,328 | 16,679 | 2863 |
2020 | 17,052 | 11,624 | 346 | ||
Thomasville | 36.42 (14.74) | 2007 | 123,768 | 93,375 | 17,096 |
2020 | 87,001 | 60,646 | 32 |
Parcel | Landcover Scenario | TSS (kg/yr) | BOD (kg/yr) | COD (kg/yr) | TP (kg/yr) | SolP (kg/yr) | TKN (kg/yr) | NO2− & NO3− (kg/yr) | Cu (kg/yr) | Pb (kg/yr) | Zn (kg/yr) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jonesboro North | 2007 | 2315.31 | 416.40 | 1559.29 | 9.30 | 3.81 | 51.09 | 19.43 | 0.40 | 1.99 | 4.78 |
2020 | 1240.86 | 223.16 | 835.68 | 4.99 | 2.04 | 27.38 | 10.41 | 0.21 | 1.07 | 2.56 | |
Jonesboro South | 2007 | 3563.37 | 640.86 | 2399.82 | 14.32 | 5.86 | 78.63 | 29.91 | 0.61 | 3.07 | 7.36 |
2020 | 1980.68 | 356.22 | 1333.93 | 7.96 | 3.26 | 43.71 | 16.62 | 0.34 | 1.71 | 4.09 | |
Leila Valley | 2007 | 1532.16 | 275.55 | 1031.86 | 6.16 | 2.52 | 33.81 | 12.86 | 0.26 | 1.32 | 3.17 |
2020 | 938.41 | 168.77 | 631.99 | 3.77 | 1.54 | 20.71 | 7.88 | 0.16 | 0.81 | 1.94 | |
Thomasville | 2007 | 8660.88 | 1557.63 | 5832.83 | 34.80 | 14.25 | 191.11 | 72.69 | 1.49 | 7.46 | 17.90 |
2020 | 4757.12 | 855.55 | 3203.77 | 19.11 | 7.83 | 104.97 | 39.93 | 0.82 | 4.10 | 9.83 |
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Johnson Gaither, C.; Cross, D.A.; Dobbs, G.R. Exploring Transiency in Four Urban Forest Patch Neighborhoods: Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Sustainability 2022, 14, 7220. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127220
Johnson Gaither C, Cross DA, Dobbs GR. Exploring Transiency in Four Urban Forest Patch Neighborhoods: Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Sustainability. 2022; 14(12):7220. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127220
Chicago/Turabian StyleJohnson Gaither, Cassandra, Denzell A. Cross, and G. Rebecca Dobbs. 2022. "Exploring Transiency in Four Urban Forest Patch Neighborhoods: Atlanta, Georgia, USA" Sustainability 14, no. 12: 7220. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127220