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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Neighborhood planning"”.
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Neighborhood planning in Washington Square
… of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1948.
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Participatory Zoning: Collectivity, contradictions, and the politics of inclusion in neighborhood planning
… rights secure means that even a collective of neighborhood residents successfully engaging with public institutions are highly unlikely to achieve outcomes that undermine private interests in property and profit. Yet, revised attempts at participation continue to be made and the participatory …
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The greening of community development : an analysis of ecological restoration and neighborhood planning in the Fenway
… the built and natural environment in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Separate community planning initiatives to protect the urban watershed and promote a community development vision have improved the physical conditions of the Fenway neighborhood, but have failed to address …
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Neighborhood plans as tools for public health improvement : steps to a healthier Austin and neighborhood planning in Austin, Texas
… City-approved projects that may help reduce neighborhood-level barriers to physically active transportation and recreation. Emerging evidence suggests a link between the built environment and physical activity, but any causal relationship remains uncertain. This report begins with a …
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The Village of River Ranch: A Post Occupancy Evaluation of a Traditional Neighborhood Development in Lafayette, Louisiana
The proponents of New Urbanism claim the neighborhoods they design, called Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TNDs), promote community, sense of place, physical health, and environmental sustainability. Critics assert that community is stressed at the expense of individuality, that design unity …
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Saving the York Avenue Estate : landmark preservation as land use control
… the use of land, making it imperative that neighborhood planning efforts acknowledge the affects of landmark preservation. This is the story of the York Avenue Estate; the City and Suburban Homes Company, which built the Estate; the model tenement movement, which inspired it; Peter Kalikow, …
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Ecodistricts in San Francisco: The Implementation of Neighborhood Regional Planning and Its Potential Effects on Environmental Resilience
<p>Ecodistricts, or neighborhood-scale, community-driven areas of sustainable development, have emerged internationally and within the U.S. to create models of adaptive environmental design and advanced urban infrastructure. Central SoMa is the first ecodistrict to be planned and implemented in San …
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People-Centered Planning: A Case Study in Virtual Participatory Design with Chicago Residents
This thesis demonstrates how neighborhood planning decisions can move from the purview of developers, engineers, planners and politicians to community members themselves through participatory design. Amid the stay-at-home orders of the COVID-19 pandemic, I explore how digital tools expand the role …
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Holistic development : supporting businesses in the Dudley Street neighborhood
… of businesses. These models when applied to the neighborhood level are limited by the fact businesses do not serve a solely economic function. If economic development practitioners are concerned about alleviating poverty in inner cities, then practitioners should include an assessment of the …
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The Urgency of Presence: Designing Healing Community Spaces After Displacement
… Cass Boulevard, “Mass. and Cass” is an informal neighborhood in Boston that is often described in the news with disaster-tinged language like “epicenter” and “tent city”. After this neighborhood was declared a “public health crisis”, the City of Boston made major investments into constructing and …
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Permanent Supportive Housing in Tampa, Florida: Facilitating Transition through Site, Program, & Design
… both interior and exterior can be employed in neighborhood planning for any population. This thesis represents the beginning of a new model for permanent supportive housing.
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Socioeconomic Neighborhood Change In Local Historic Districts Of Large American Cities, 1970-2010: A Mixed Methods Approach
… designation to preserve sites, streets, and neighborhoods they value. Recent population gains and increased inequality in America’s largest cities have placed increased scrutiny on the relationship of local historic districts to socioeconomic neighborhood change. Critics argue that local …
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Light rail and changing development patterns in Dallas, San Diego and Jersey City
… City, is examined with respect to land use and planning The San Diego Trolley began operating in 1986, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) in 1995 and the Hudson Bergen Light Rail in Jersey City in 2000. Structured interviews were conducted with developers of projects along these transit lines …
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Constructing professional knowledge: the Neighborhood Unit concept in the community builders handbook
… concerns the diffusion of Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit concept between 1929 and 1969. It is grounded in a discourse analysis of the use of the Neighborhood Unit concept in the literature of twenty professional and governmental organizations. In the middle decades of the twentieth …
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On the Right Track: A Framework for Evaluating Commercial Corridor Revitalization in New Orleans
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to provide leaders with a clear explanation of commercial corridor revitalization, standard for evaluation, and justification for the support of existing and future commercial corridor revitalization districts in New Orleans, LA. This thesis begins with a definition …
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The Value of a Neighborhood School: The Story of Paxson Elementary, Missoula, Montana
The planning, management and administration of public schools in the United States has been largely ignored by professional planners. School siting issues rarely involve an urban planner’s perspective. In recent years there has been an increase in community participation in planning issues and …
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The Value of a Neighborhood School: The Story of Paxson Elementary, Missoula, Montana
The planning, management and administration of public schools in the United States has been largely ignored by professional planners. School siting issues rarely involve an urban planner’s perspective. In recent years there has been an increase in community participation in planning issues and …
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Governing bodies through space, governing space through bodies: Police power, planning, and race in Central Atlanta
… studying the relationship between policing and planning institutions. Scholars within planning and cognate disciplines identify the police as agents in urban social cleansing, social stratification, and segregation. Yet these studies 1) largely portray the police as a singular, monolithic …
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Corner Culture: Corner Stores in the Black Pearl Neighborhood of New Orleans
… a significant part of New Orleans' history and neighborhoods. From essential grocery providers to bars and restaurants full of local character, these buildings have held a number of roles in the community. These roles have changed in response to development patterns, market pressures, and …
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