Graduation Semester and Year
2007
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Urban Affairs
Department
Urban and Public Affairs
First Advisor
Margaret Hudson
Abstract
The use of eminent domain power to take private land for private use continues to grow in the United States. Many American people lost their homes or businesses to city and council driven economic development in low-income neighborhoods. This paper seeks to explore the social implications that eminent domain power has on residents and examines power that is used by cities and councils to create economic development through the taking of land in low-income communities. I explore these issues through a case study of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium relocation to Arlington, Texas utilizing discourse analysis. I use Henri Lefebvre's conceptual triad of representational space, representations of space, and spatial practices to understand the production of urban space through the use of eminent domain power.
Disciplines
Public Affairs | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Social and Behavioral Sciences
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Probasco, Kim, "For The Greater Good Or Greed? Redistributing Private Space Through Eminent Domain Power: Relocating The Dallas Cowboys Stadium To Arlington, Texas" (2007). Public Affairs Theses. 11.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/publicaffairs_theses/11
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington