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Detroit blues women
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>DETROIT BLUES WOMEN</p> <p>by</p> <p>Michael Duggan Murphy</p> <p>August 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. John J. Bukowczyk</p> <p>Major: History</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>"Detroit Blues Women" explores how African American "women's blues" survived the twentieth century …
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Detroit : open city
Detroit is often regarded as America's largest city in decline, a metropolis that has failed to recover from an insidious cycle of deindustrialization, racism, suburban flight and laggard politics. This image of the city highlights the tragic aspects of Detroit's urban development and obscures the …
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Sustaining development in Detroit
… the traces of the once great industrial city of Detroit. It focuses primarily on Fordism as a type of modernist urbanism in which a powerful socio-economic agenda manipulated the growth of the city to that of a horizontal decentralization, dependent on the automobile. The design investigation …
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Economic Welfare Of Firefighting Service In Detroit
… cut on equity of fire service allocation in Detroit.</p> <p>Chapter 2 examines whether socio-economic factors, various aspects of housing, and spatial features can explain differences in building fire risk across Detroit. Using a complete Detroit fire incidents data set for the years …
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Sicilians In Detroit: How Do They Speak?
… of the Sicilian dialect spoken in the city of Detroit, Michigan. The city has witnessed, starting from the early 19th century, a steady process of immigration and settlement involving speakers mainly arriving from the two Sicilian coastal towns of Terrasini and Cinisi. The varieties they speak …
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The Scalar Politics of Mobility in Detroit
… of mobility around an extended case study of Detroit. In doing so, I reveal the critical role of mobility in shaping scaling processes during the highway building era of the twentieth century and in the present new mobility moment.
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Lebanon to Detroit and the Places In-Between
… 1914 until 1967; and, my second novel, set in Detroit, continues this narrative through the perspectives of two characters, drawing on the post 9-11 Arab American community and experience. The poet Hayan Charara has spoken of “the absence of a ‘personal history’ of the Middle East. . . for …
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An Ethnographic Study of The Moth Detroit StorySLAM
<p>The Moth Detroit StorySLAM is one of many storytelling events staged in urban bar environments. Unlike the increasingly aged audiences attending the National Storytelling Festival and similar story festivals, the Detroit StorySLAM consistently yields <q>at capacity</q> crowds of college students …
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Detroit Crime Trends: Examining Large Business Labor Practices
… of the top twenty-five large businesses in Detroit and the crime rate from 2012 to 2014. Previous research has asserted that a significant correlation exists between unemployment and crime but does not investigate the effects of large company employment in a city in relation to crime. This …
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Polish-American Music in Detroit: Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries
… since the late-nineteenth century. In the Detroit metropolitan area this pattern has produced an ethnic community which includes third and fourth generation Polish-Americans as well as post-World War II emigres. The disparate backgrounds and political orientations of the pre- and post-World …
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Demolition Space and Housing Removal Policy in Detroit
In 2014 the city of Detroit began a program of "targeted and rapid demolition" of its housing stock, aimed at removing all of the city's "blighted" buildings. As the largest currently ongoing housing removal operation in the United States, with $250 million in funding and over 13,000 houses …
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City design criteria: their evolution and application to the inner city of Detroit / their evolution and application to the inner city of Detroit
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1969.
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Riot or rebellion: media framing and the 1967 Detroit uprising
… coverage from the 30 days following the 1967 Detroit uprising and comparing that coverage with the 40th anniversary coverage of the same event. By analyzing the uprising through a 40-year lens, this dissertation embarks on an area that has not been addressed in framing research: the long-term …
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Wastewater Treatment Comes To Detroit: Law, Politics, Technology And Funding
<p>Detroit was one of the cities identified by the International Joint Commission as polluting the Great Lakes in contravention of the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909. The United States Public Health Service also reported on the pollution that entered the Detroit River from Detroit's sewers. …
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The Rise Of Public Sector Unionism In Detroit, 1947-1967
… illustrate how the growth and concentration of Detroit-area public sector workers coupled with rights consciousness of the postwar period, combined to empower public sector workers and the Michigan legislature to successfully fight for thePublic Employees Relations Act and pursue collective …
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The effects of a depressed expressway : a Detroit case study
Thesis (M.U.P.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, 1956
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Race, public transit, and automobility in World War II Detroit
… environmental history. Through a case study of Detroit, the dissertation argues that World War II reinforced a culture of driving and set the stage for mass abandonment of public transportation in the post-war era. Even as wartime resource shortages exposed the vulnerabilities of car-centered …
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