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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Disinvestment"”.
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Intensifying urban thresholds : building continuity for New Bedfords's waterfront
… concern in this thesis is the issue of disinvestment in our cities and towns. City centers -- once thriving commercial, civic, and community precincts -- have become fragmented, stratified, and isolated places. As crime, suburbanization, and disinvestment impoverish the public realm of …
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The struggle for vibrancy : a study of local government intervention in Detroit's inner suburbs
… limited governmental capacity, commercial disinvestment, population decline, poverty, failing schools, and racial and ethnic tensions. These challenges are compounded by growing fiscal difficulties fueled by shrinking revenues and increasing costs. This thesis asks what strategies an inner …
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The Impacts of Exclusionary Zoning Practices and Gentrification on Low-Income and Minority Populations in America's Inner Cities
… of minorities and low-income families through disinvestment.
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Beyond the failing school: Race, space, and opportunity in Chicago public schools
… voice(s) to offer an alternate story of disinvestment in Chicago’s children of color. This mixed methods project uses both quantitative and qualitative data to discuss the geography of opportunity for students of color in the Chicago public school system. Using critical race theory, this …
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Nontraditional roles for philanthropic capital in urban redevelopment
… United States, neighborhoods of persistent urban disinvestment continue to elude revitalization. Despite efforts from private, public, and social sector leaders, these areas continue to produce unacceptable health, safety, education, economic, and wellbeing outcomes for their residents. …
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Time and space limited : community art and neighborhood development in Hudson, New York
Facing disinvestment and unemployment, many places look to culture-based strategies for revitalization. Traditional models of culture-based community revitalization, however, have been criticized for contributing to gentrification, social polarization, and cultural discrimination. Communities …
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Making Place for Arts & Culture: how arts & culture play into interdisciplinary strategies for community development without displacement
… marginalized communities dealing with systemic disinvestment without exacerbating development induced displacement? Focusing on el Punto in Salem, MA, it will surface tools used by a Community Development Corporation (CDC) working in a majority immigrant community in the heart of a city. In …
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Neoliberal social policy in the United States before Reagan
… disinvest in public life and to push for further disinvestment on the part of the larger society. Results show that both Democratic and Republican parties have been servants to the neoliberal corporate agenda for decades. The implication of this finding is that challenging neoliberalism means …
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Gentrification without displacement
… States housing policy has facilitated urban disinvestment and marginalization for the past 80 years. The Station North area of Baltimore presents the current tension between gentrification and displacement. The research presented defines the development ecosystem, gentrification and …
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Global displacements : geographies of work and industrial restructuring in the Dominican Republic.
… the layered histories of accumulation and disinvestment of the Cibao region and its border with Haiti, and my own position as a researcher. Bringing the insights of deconstruction and Marxist and feminist theory to bare on a critical ethnography of industrial restructuring, I examine …
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Manufacturing recovery : a networked approach to green job creation in Massachusetts Gateway cities
… and social design led to a pattern of economic disinvestment and a deficit of municipal planning capacity compared to Lowell. Today, Lawrence experiences the resulting disadvantage when it competes with Lowell for clean tech economic development funds. I argue that state and federal policymakers …
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How post-pandemic public transit journeys can inform employers’ return to office strategies in Boston, MA and Washington, DC
… the pandemic and layered upon decades of transit disinvestment in the United States. The study builds on previous research on work-from-home trends among white-collar workers, leading to the central question of how employers in dense urban areas can manage a return to the office amidst fluctuating …
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"Good jobs, not gentrification" : the fight for community centered development in Roxbury
… Roxbury neighborhood. Following decades of disinvestment, this community is experiencing an upsurge in new commercial and residential construction. Concerns about gentrification and displacement of low and moderate income residents inspired a wave of direct action organizing demanding …
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Power to the people : a framework for enhancing environmental stewardship through community design
… neglect, and perpetuate cycles of environmental disinvestment. This thesis explores the potential of using residential design as a medium for confronting these human qualities to instill a desire and provide the ability to protect and conserve natural resources, and address other emerging …
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Preserving the Queen (City's) crown jewel : historic preservation in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine
… for years the district has languished through disinvestment and neglect, resulting in substantial demolitions of the historic fabric. Without an intervention, demolition and insensitive new development will continue, and the opportunity to leverage Over-the-Rhine as a unique asset may be lost. …
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Policy Partners in the Neoliberal Age: Corresponding School and Prison Reforms Since 1970
… positions amenable to racialized processes of disinvestment, dispossession, and discipline on the other. </p>
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The guerrilla in the garden/
… In New York City, it emerged in the context of disinvestment and urban renewal in the 1970s as a means to clean up vacant lots, improve safety, and build social networks within neighborhoods. This study examines contemporary guerrilla gardening projects in New York and addresses the questions of …
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The Klondike Memory Project: Klondike Memory Project: Race, Counter-Memory, and Planning Processes
… long histories of structural racialized disinvestment in these neighborhoods. In this project, we amplify challenges to state narratives that attempt to decontextualize Black history from racist regimes and legacies to subjugate Black and Brown epistemologies. In this thesis, I propose …
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Reconfiguring racial regimes of ownership: vacancy and the labor of revitalization on Chicago's South Side
… records. I find that vacancy results not from disinvestment but from the influx of hyperextractive investment – predatory mortgages, tax debt purchases, and land installment contracts – over the past seven decades. Second, to understand the forces that grant legal sanction and economic …
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Habits of Housing Policy: The Role of Historical Decision-Making Tendencies in Shaping Contemporary Philadelphia Policy
… and displacement in communities which have faced disinvestment in the past. However, current Philadelphia policy appears to favor new construction of housing. Using primary and secondary sources, this thesis examines patterns in past housing policy to identify recurring assumptions among …
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