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San Diego's Hybrid Urban Borderlands

An Urban Landscape- and Border-Theoretical Approach to the Inner-Ring Redevelopment of America’s Finest City

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  1. Albert Rossmeier

    1. Bad Füssing, Germany

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Part of the book series: Räume – Grenzen – Hybriditäten (RGH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: Crossing the Inner-City Boundaries—Urban Redevelopment in San Diego and its Progression from the Center into the Inner Ring

    • Albert Rossmeier
    Pages 1-25

  3. Theoretical Perspectives, Operationalization, and the Conceptual Approach of Hybrid Urban Borderlands

    • Albert Rossmeier
    Pages 27-91

  4. Methodological Considerations and Methodical Approach

    • Albert Rossmeier
    Pages 93-115

  5. From Native Land to America’s Finest City: Historical Milestones and Leading Developments in San Diego

    • Albert Rossmeier
    Pages 117-130

  6. When San Diegans are “Getting a Little Loose with their Naming Convention:” Illuminating Subjective Everyday Experiences and Interpretations of Neighborhood Change

    • Albert Rossmeier
    Pages 131-314

  7. Conclusion, Reflection, and Outlook on Hybrid Urban Borderlands—A Unique San Diegan Phenomenon or an Adjustable Lens?

    • Albert Rossmeier
    Pages 315-326
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About this book

This study aims for a wider understanding of the redevelopment processes that emerged several decades ago in downtown San Diego and now gradually spread over the downtown edges into the inner ring. Perspectively situated in the fields of urban landscape and urban border studies, the research project outlines how the eastward ‘redevelopment wave’ in San Diego contests socialized neighborhood (boundary) perceptions by transforming the former first-tier suburbs from disinvested communities into ‘urban villages’ and trendy places to be. The study shows how the redevelopment perforates, dissolves, and shifts socialized, linear neighborhood boundaries into areas that are simultaneously part of the one and the other neighborhood. In the present work, the resulting, rather undefined or stretched border areas have been referred to as hybrid urban borderlands. This notion is a novel conceptual approach that can be deemed a promising lens for future studies on neighborhood change, urban redevelopment, and socio-spatial re-interpretation beyond the context of San Diego.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bad Füssing, Germany

    Albert Rossmeier

About the author

Albert Rossmeier studied Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Applied-Sciences in Weihenstephan and Human Geography/Global Studies at the University of Tübingen, where he completed his dissertation in Geography. His research interests include energy transition and wind power expansion, landscape change and theories, urban borderlands as well as urban and regional development in Europe and North America.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: San Diego's Hybrid Urban Borderlands

  • Book Subtitle: An Urban Landscape- and Border-Theoretical Approach to the Inner-Ring Redevelopment of America’s Finest City

  • Authors: Albert Rossmeier

  • Series Title: Räume – Grenzen – Hybriditäten

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42667-5

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Science and Law (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-42666-8Published: 30 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-42667-5Published: 29 August 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-1932

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-1940

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 326

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Geography, general

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