{"id":32064,"date":"2012-07-23T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=32064"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:28:11","slug":"urban-planet-the-effect-of-local-ownership-on-civic-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/23\/urban-planet-the-effect-of-local-ownership-on-civic-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: The Effect of Local Ownership on Civic Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/?attachment_id=11986\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"saintjohn\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/uploads\/atlantic\/saintjohn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/18\/urban-planet-how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths\/feature-urban-planet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current planning principles tend to favour local businesses over large national retailers because of their ability to foster healthy, engaged cities. But does this preference have any\u00a0 empirical foundation? According to Stacey Miller at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, yes &#8211; for three reasons. Local business owners invest their personal and financial interests in their community\u2019s well-being. Cities with greater local economic autonomy can more easily marshal resources in tough times. Local businesses create environments that foster social ties. These factors appear to be borne out in several recent <a href=\"http:\/\/cjres.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2011\/12\/14\/cjres.rsr034.short?rss=1\">studies<\/a>, including one recently published in the <em>Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society<\/em>, which found lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes in communities where locally owned businesses are prevalent. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilsr.org\/local-ownership-healthier-wealthier-wiser\/\">Institute for Local Self-Reliance<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88364173@N00\/3562146764\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\">Beach650<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>. Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to <a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. Current planning principles tend to favour local businesses over large national retailers because of their ability to foster healthy,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/23\/urban-planet-the-effect-of-local-ownership-on-civic-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: The Effect of Local Ownership on Civic Health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759],"tags":[4657,20621,14838,20619,20620,10185,99],"class_list":["post-32064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-facebook","tag-institute-for-local-self-reliance","tag-marshal","tag-stacey-miller","tag-the-cambridge-journal","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: The Effect of Local Ownership on Civic Health  - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/23\/urban-planet-the-effect-of-local-ownership-on-civic-health\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: The Effect of Local Ownership on Civic Health  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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