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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Redevelopment projects"”.
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Community Benefits Agreements : an evolution in public benefits negotiation processes
Urban redevelopment projects involve three parties: (1) the public sector (e.g. public officials), (2) the private sector (e.g. developers), and (3) the community (e.g. residents and community groups). Traditionally, decision-making power in urban redevelopment projects resided between the public …
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Beyond the market : a case study of the downtown revitalization paradox in Framingham, Massachusetts
… communities have a long history of implementing redevelopment projects based on the displacement of vulnerable minority groups, who have been blamed for physical blight, depression of property values, and stripping neighborhoods of life. In the early 21 t century, with recent immigrants to the …
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New Urbanism and Neighborhood Revitalization: A Case Study Analysis of Urban Design, Economic Development and Social Equity in HOPE VI Neighborhood Revitalization Projects
… to evaluate HOPE VI neighborhood revitalization projects by the design standards prescribed by new urbanism: if new urbanism principles are successfully implemented in HOPE VI neighborhood revitalization projects, new urbanism is responsible for the outcomes. This research expands on existing …
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The effect of organizational capacity on urban redevelopment outcomes : the case of the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles and the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
… are significant in executing successful urban redevelopment projects? * To what extent does organizational capacity make certain projects successful? Primary research question: What aspects of organizational capacity contribute to the positive or negative outcomes of urban redevelopment …
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A Critical Assessment of The Bridges Redevelopment Process in Calgary
ABSTRACT A Critical Assessment of The Bridges Redevelopment Process in Calgary, Alberta Supporting the development of sustainable, vibrant inner-city neighbourhoods is an essential element in contemporary city building. Extensive evaluation of ongoing city redevelopment projects like The Bridges …
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Modern Web Scraping and Data Analysis Tools to Discover Historic Real Estate Development Opportunities
… increase the financial return profile of these redevelopment projects. However, finding these qualifying sites across the United States is challenging given the size of the NPS database. With over 97,000 rows of static data, the NPS database is unwieldy and difficult to maneuver. Moreover, there …
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The people or the place? : revitalization / gentrification in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point
… specter of gentrification looming over these new projects, how can the community ensure that benefits arising from ecological clean-up and neighborhood reinvestment are borne by them, and not gentrifying newcomers? This thesis explores the process of community planning and examines proposed future …
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Understanding place after Katrina : predatory planning and cultural resistance in New Orleans Tremé Neighborhood
… Coast presents the nation with the most massive redevelopment project in a single location ever. Reminiscent of the Urban Renewal changes between the late 1940s and early 1970s. Urban Renewal redevelopment projects were touted as being beneficial to the city by providing easier access to downtown …
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Chrono urbanism and its relationship with the hybrid working culture: Real Estate opportunities and perspectives from NYC
In the last few months, major news about redevelopment projects and policy changes to incorporate remote work culture has hit the headlines due to the always evolving lifestyle of people in urban areas around the world. During the still current covid19 pandemic, people fled major urban areas to …
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Development Control in Transitional Urban China from an Institutional Perspective: Shanghai in the “Era of Redevelopment” as Case Study
… national policies since 2012 to promote urban redevelopment to improve land use efficiency and sustainability. These national policies aimed to contain urban expansion, which had been leading to adverse social and ecological effects. As a response, Shanghai, one of China’s largest cities, …
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The Point Re-visited: A Redevelopment Plan for the Point Road Precinct in Durban
… current ‘status quo’ of waterfront development projects in South African port cities, by proposing a bold new redevelopment plan for the Point waterfront in Durban. The last two decades have experienced a growing number of South Africa’s port cities undertaking major redevelopment projects, in …
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Semi-nonstandard construction and its application in post-squatter İstanbul
… a crowded urban fabric. In Istanbul, where redevelopment projects have displaced many residents to standardized mass housing units built on the periphery of the city, another possibility for prefabricated housing may be possible. In an age when CNC fabrication is becoming commonplace, the …
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Newfound land : urban highway removal and planning the land it uncovers
… this destruction by removing highways. Several projects, most notably the Central Artery Tunnel Project in Boston, have begun to bring awareness of what has become a new urban revitalization tool. With Boston's completion near, and San Francisco's Embarcadero standing as a successful completed …
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The Boston Seaport : an economic analysis of large scale urban redevelopment on adjacent residential real estate values
… over the period of time of a major adjacent redevelopment, The Seaport. The main purpose is to determine the effect of large scale urban redevelopment projects on adjacent housing prices over time. Using comprehensive residential sales data from The Warren Group, this paper offers an …
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Holistic revitalization in small post-industrial cities : tools for urban housing development
… housing programs have sought to utilize redevelopment projects to accomplish broader community revitalization goals. Contemporary affordable housing practice embodies this idea in large housing development projects, often funded through government programs such as HOPE VI. This …
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Two Octopuses Making Love: An Analysis of Institutional Management Behaviors Across Four Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment Project Networks in Rochester and Buffalo, NY
… of municipality-led brownfield remediation and redevelopment projects.</p> <p>Utilizing an integration of public management, policy tool, and network theories, this research compares four project-level case studies in Rochester and Buffalo, New York, to address two primary questions. First, in …
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Massachusetts' Brownfield Support Team Initiative : program design and implementation in Somerville and Chicopee, Massachusetts
… alike. Given the multiple barriers to brownfield redevelopment, including: the difficulty of determining the level of contamination, unknown cleanup costs, uncertainty surrounding the extent of liability, the challenge of obtaining grants or outside funding to cover cleanup costs, and the …
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The Urban Catalyst Concept
Urban catalysts are new redevelopment strategies comprised of a series of projects that drive and guide urban development. Redevelopment efforts in the past, such as urban renewal and large-scale redevelopment projects, have often jeopardized the vitality of downtowns. The difference between the …
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From Vacant to Valuable: Building Community Wealth through Brownfield Redevelopment in Legacy Industrial Cities
… This thesis explores how industrial brownfield redevelopment might utilize community wealth-building (CWB) strategies to advance equitable economic development. Focusing on the work of the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund in Cleveland, Ohio—a nonprofit preparing long-vacant industrial land for …
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Settings for collective control : design and programmatic propositions for the reinforcement of resident serive capacity in low-income housing developments/
Major "redevelopment" projects are being planned and undertaken by the Boston Housing Authority to reverse the "cycle of deterioration" threatening the existence of most of Boston's largest and oldest public housing developments. This thesis focuses on the West Broadway and Franklin Field …
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