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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Inner-City Neighborhoods"”.
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Revitalizing Inner-City Neighborhoods And The Community Voice: A Look At Winston-Salem, North Carolina
A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty of Wake Forest University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
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Sharing equal opportunity : minority business enterprises and their effects on minority employment in inner city neighborhoods
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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The politics of co-operative and non-profit housing in inner-city neighborhoods : analysis of two case studies in Toronto
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch. in Advanced Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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Using neighborhood indicators to understand inner city markets
The economic distress of America's inner cities is one of the most pressing issues facing the nation. Many analysts have asserted the unmet retail demand in inner-city neighborhoods and the potential for translating this demand into investment. Tapping the unmet retail demand has been considered an …
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Process: A Strategy for developing Community Life and Place Attachment
Inner-city neighborhoods are being recognized for their potential to contribute visually, economically, and culturally to the urban core. Efforts to revitalize these neighborhoods will need to address the economic, cultural, and social structure of the neighborhood. Resident groups, in particular …
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Re-constructing place and community : urban heritage and the symbolic politics of neighborhood revitalization
Inner-city neighborhoods have gathered new life as the hopeful settings for the resurrection of community, safety, economy, and social vitality. Preservationists, artists, historians, and urban designers make bold claims that urban heritage can strengthen community identity, empower neighborhood …
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People and Their Problems: An Exploratory Study of the Quest for Democratic Citizenship in the Administered Society
What does informal problem solving in neighborhoods -- when people act collectively, but without much formal organizing -- look like? Does or can problem solving at this level contribute to the democratic capabilities of citizens? If so, how, and does public administration, as the part of …
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Mixed-use development as a neighborhood revitalization strategy : obstacles and approaches to financing
… neighborhood revitalization strategy for many inner-city neighborhoods. However, the difficulties in financing mixed-use projects limit the opportunity for replication in other communities. The case studies presented in this paper highlight the types of challenges that face developers in …
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Developing a Practical Ideal Type Gentrification Effects Mitigation Program: A Study of Austin, Texas
… of residents making the choice to move to inner city neighborhoods that have experienced decades of neglect. Gentrification encourages redevelopment and revitalization while also increasing the risk for involuntary incumbent resident displacement. This research focuses on city programs …
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Inner city shopping centers : national development trends and local community impacts
… increasing interest in bringing retail back into inner-city neighborhoods as a commercial revitalization and economic development strategy. In this thesis, a large data set of all US shopping centers is analyzed to examine general trends in shopping center development, as well as trends in …
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The Sweet Auburn Curb Market: The Search For Contested Space in the City Too Busy to hate
<p>The city of Atlanta has long boosted itself as the city too busy to hate: a place where business and southern hospitality thrive, without the social strife associated with the rest of the region. The Sweet Auburn Curb Market is an almost-century-old municipal market located in the Old Fourth …
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A Profile of Inner-city Public School Districts: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Metropolitan Area Demographics and The Abandonment of Neighborhood Schools
… that contribute to the growth or decline of neighborhoods. Despite the influences that public schools have on the development and sustainability of neighborhoods, public school abandonments are increasing. School systems use abandonments to address challenges of poor academic achievements, …
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Investing in the Civic Economy: Social Capital and Choice Neighborhoods
Concentrated poverty in inner-city neighborhoods in the United States generates social disorganization and isolation, limiting residents’ access to opportunities for upward mobility. Place-based concentration effects can be detrimental to individual health outcomes and overall community health. …
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How can social compact's neighborhood drilldown data spur more retail development in Miami's difficult to develop neighborhoods?
The inner-city neighborhoods of America continue to struggle with the economic blight they have faced ever since American urban growth began to abandon the urban city core fifty years ago. One of the most salient characteristics of the American inner-city is how it is constantly overlooked by …
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The capital of carnival: Alibabá carnival music and dance in Santo Domingo as social enterprise and performance complex
… during carnival in Santo Domingo’s working class neighborhoods. At a theoretical level, my dissertation considers the social, political, and economic choices of everyday Dominicans living in inner-city neighborhoods, in relation to intersecting local and regional policy and economic structures, …
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Using the urban design process as a catalyst for ongoing collaboration between communities and schools : Northside, Paterson, New Jersey
Inner city neighborhoods and schools are inextricably linked to each other. While this fact seems obvious and irrefutable, cooperation between urban schools and the neighborhoods they are in is often either non-existent or counterproductive. In planning for whole school reform, discussions of how …
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Experiences and perceptions of danger among urban adolescents
… perceptions and experiences of danger in their neighborhoods within the stress-coping paradigm of Lazarus and Folkman (1984). The study focused around two primary goals, the first of which was to describe inner-city adolescents' experiences of violence, perceptions of danger and the ways in …
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Producing Authenticity: The Process, Politics and Impacts of Cultural Preservation in Washington, DC
… redevelopment balance growth and equity within inner-city neighborhoods experiencing change. Redevelopment programs that draw upon existing arts and cultural assets have been supported and identified by planners as a strategy of local economic development. However, critiques of cultural …
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A Comparison of Chicago's Scattered Site and Aggregate Public Housing Residents' Psychological Self-Evaluations
… and socially isolate residents within inner-city neighborhoods. Recognizing the oppressive conditions of concentrated poverty, scattered site housing programs offer an appealing housing alternative to the density and concentration of past public housing developments for low-income …
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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
… challenge for urban planners, as problems facing inner-city neighborhoods are complex and interconnected. Most recently, both the practice and literature of neighborhood revitalization emphasized a comprehensive approach. Within this context, the concepts of capacity building and catalyst projects …
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