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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Bronx"”.
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The design and construction of a pile platform bulkhead for the Bronx Municipal Terminal Market, Bronx, New York
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1929.
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Reframing Harlem River : Manhattan-Bronx waterfront community design
… East Harlem and the Southern portion of the Bronx, the moment is ripe to rethink the current scalar incongruence between city, mobility corridors and the water edge. Both in the case of Manhattan and the Bronx the expansive geometries of the mobility infrastructure has inscribed, along both …
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THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE
<p><em>The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking</em> is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance …
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Territorialización de la inseguridad ciudadana en Bogotá : La Calle del Bronx
La tesis devela la connotación sistemática y multicausal de lo que a través de la investigación se denomina como "Procesos de Territorialización de la Inseguridad Ciudadana". Mediante un estudio de caso, se pone en evidencia la apropiación y captura sostenida en el tiempo de fenómenos como la …
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Ghanaians in the Bronx: (il) Legal Status and Pathways to Housing
… of Ghanaian migrants in the borough of the Bronx in New York City to answer that question. The aim of this research is to understand the processes by which poor documented and undocumented migrants access housing, and to uncover the hidden, informal sub-markets that they occupy. Data were …
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Building a platform for economic democracy : a cooperative development strategy for the Bronx
… economic development strategy for the Bronx targeting recommendations to both governmental and non-governmental organizations.
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Streetwise for book smarts : culture, community organizing, and education reform in the Bronx
… data on five education organizing groups in the Bronx to explore the role of cultural norms, usually manifest in the form of rules of membership, activities, and protocols. All of the case study organizations have been engaging in grassroots political campaigns for similar goals in local school …
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“Whose Bronx?” Regime Politics and the Evolution of Community Power at the Kingsbridge Armory
… at the Kingsbridge Armory in the Northwest Bronx, as community groups have mounted an expanding challenge to development-as-usual in New York City. Using urban regime theory as a lens, I deploy archival research and interviews to assess the tensions that emerge when regime politics collide …
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Children of Moses's experiment : youth, mental health, and hip-hop in the South Bronx
… delves into a hip-hop therapy program in the Bronx, NY called Beats, Rhymes, and Life (BRL). Interviews with youth, social workers, and youth workers at this program elucidate the strengths and challenges of the hip-hop therapy model. The piece concludes with specific lessons for practitioners …
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Green rebuilding the South Bronx : mapping the capacity to promote sustainable development in New York
… the low-income minority communities of the South Bronx to ensure all of NYC-even historically marginalized neighborhoods-is part of the journey towards sustainable development. This green building study of New York suggests the potential of new policies and organizations to further the green …
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Beyond the Biological: William Beebe, the Bronx Zoo, and U.S. Biological Field Stations in British Guiana
… British Guiana as a branch of the newly opened Bronx Zoo in New York. It was the first biological laboratory set up in the tropics connected to a large research institution in the United States. This paper looks at how these early field stations were tied to the economic desires of U.S. …
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Design of a four track railroad bridge over the Bronx River Parkway at Woodlawn N. Y.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1933
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The Limits of Law as Technology for Environmental Policy: A Case Study of the Bronx Community Paper Company
… range of issues addressed. A case study of the Bronx Community Paper Company provides an example of the current state of environmental law and policy in the United States, and the limited ability of legal technologies to resolve increasingly complex environmental controversies.
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The Bronx is burning a hole in my pocket : why gentrification may never come (and what might happen to lenders, landlords, renters & buildings instead.)
Bronx buildings appear to face a split possibility for their future: gentrification, as the city housing market continues to tighten; or abandonment, as inflated prices come down and leave owners in the red. This thesis takes stock of the buildings, the players and regulation, and looks at what …
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Neighborhood revitalization through catalyst projects : capacity building and urban design in the West Philadelphia Landscape Project and the Bronx River Project
… Project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Bronx River Project in New York City, New York. Underlying this inquiry is the fundamental question: do catalyst projects represent a departure from the status quo or a strategic repackaging of past practices? The primary questions addressed in this …
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Incipient Speciation in Freshwater Fish Species from Two Isolated Watersheds
… As a result of the Wisconsin glaciation, the Bronx and Saw Mill Rivers now exist in separate but parallel watersheds.</p> <p>The main focus of this research was to decipher if there is evidence of incipient speciation between freshwater fish populations that reside in two isolated river …
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This Little Light of Mine: The History of The Amalgamated Nursery School
… founders, the changing neighborhoods of the Bronx, the Progressive Education Movement and the Women's Leadership Movements that helped define and support the school. Recent policy changes have had impact on this school and on all early childhood programs in New York City.</p>
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Essays on the Economics of Driving and Health
… effect is higher for Manhattan, middling for the Bronx and Brooklyn, and lower for Queens. A synthetic control analysis shows pronounced effects over time in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and a permutation test confirms the effect is not commonly reproducible using untreated counties.</p> <p>In the …
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Sensation Seeking, Early Pregnancy and Criminal Justice System Involvement Among Latino Youth
… children and preadolescents living in the South Bronx and Puerto Rico. In the current analysis, data were analyzed on 69 participants who had completed measures of sensation seeking, pregnancy and arrests to predict whether sensation seeking would predict arrests and pregnancy at the second time …
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Achieving community economic development in New York City : lessons from the Kingsbridge Armory
… of the Kingsbridge Armory in the Northwest Bronx-in which community groups and labor unions were able to secure significant community benefits and achieve meaningful participation in the development process. Drawing on key lessons from this case, this thesis proposes a framework to achieve …
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