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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Rust Belt"”.
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Rust Belt Blues
Alison Stine's Rust Belt Blues is a book-length work of linked creative nonfiction essays set in former manufacturing towns in Ohio, Indiana, and upstate New York. In pieces that range from autobiography to literary journalism, she focuses on abandoned places and people in the area known as the …
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Revitalising Northeast China: Rust belt politics and policy failures
The regional economy of northeast China has been in a serious state of industrial decline for decades. Experts have reached a consensus that no meaningful, regional-level, long-term economic revitalisation has occurred despite the introduction of a revitalisation strategy in 2003. Some Chinese …
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Revitalising Northeast China: Rust belt politics and policy failures
The regional economy of northeast China has been in a serious state of industrial decline for decades. Experts have reached a consensus that no meaningful, regional-level, long-term economic revitalisation has occurred despite the introduction of a revitalisation strategy in 2003. Some Chinese …
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Valuing Vacancy: Land Banking and Property Governance in the U.S. Rust Belt
<p>In the early 1970s, planning and city officials in St. Louis, Missouri were grappling with the consequences of white flight, urban renewal, and a withdrawal of federal funding on the city’s increasingly abandoned and tax delinquent housing stock. In response, the city government implemented a …
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Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown : social embeddedness and the transformation of the rust belt
… By 1983, both had taken on the moniker of the "rust belt"; dual processes of deindustrialization and hollowing out pointed toward bleak futures. Yet, twenty years later, it is clear that the cities' economies have actually proceeded down dramatically divergent paths. Allentown has found itself …
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The nature and extent of college and career readiness partnerships in school districts serving students in rust belt areas
… industry in the geographic region known as the “Rust Belt” and how those partnerships served for the betterment of the local community and social mobility for students enrolled in College and Career Readiness (CCR) curricula. This study adds to a body of literature that indicates that …
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From subprime loans to unwanted greenspace: An urban political ecology of economic crisis in Cleveland, Ohio
… land vacancy in former industrial hubs of the US Rust Belt. Following the 2007-2009 economic crisis, Rust Belt cities undertook sweeping demolition campaigns and have sought to repurpose the resulting vacant land for ecosystem services. Yet, calls to ‘green the Rust Belt’ through vacant land …
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Equilibriums of Paradox: Pittsburgh's Urban Renaissance through Public Transport
… to be hollowed out in the typical fashion of a Rust Belt city. For the first time in four decades, the city saw a rise in population in 2008. Indications show that Pittsburgh is becoming a successful post-industrial city. The average age of the population also lowered, indicating a brighter …
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From Section 8 to Starbucks: The Effects of Gentrification on Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
… by uncovering how housing is affected in a Rust Belt city. The deindustrialized cities of the American Rust Belt have been largely ignored within the gentrification literature because of the population loss and economic slumps these metros have faced due to global restructuring of …
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Public private partnerships for economic development: impacts on shrinking cities
… The cities researched are located in the Rust Belt region of the United States and their economies have experienced a drastic decline over the last half-century. This research reveals the economic impacts on these shrinking cities that have had programs and projects implemented through the …
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Air quality co-benefits of renewable energy policy in the U.S.
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs) in the U.S. Rust Belt region.
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The Roles of a Basque-inspired Cooperative in the Community Based Economic Development in Cleveland, Ohio
… the ongoing social experiments in one of the rust belt city in the United States, the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative in Cleveland Ohio, which is also known as the Cleveland Model.Inspired by Mondragon cooperative in the Basque country, the Cleveland model presents the community with a …
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How to Keep the Girls Inside
… fifteen years. Set in a fictionalized struggling rust-belt city, every aspect of daily life—from the ordinary comings and goings of neighbors and friends, constantly led elsewhere by opportunities outside of the city; to the dramatic shifts in weather patterns, seasons mirroring life cycles; to …
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Fission and fury in Perry, Ohio : one town's fight to save their nuclear power plant
… Power Plant has been the linchpin of the small Rust Belt community, bringing flush budgets and well-paying jobs to an area with little other industry. But like many nuclear power plants in the U.S., the Perry plant is aging, costly to maintain, and unable to compete with the nearly two-decade …
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Saints of Grand Rapids
… These are stories rooted in the Midwest and its rust-belt inhabitants, but for all their contemporary socio-economic concerns, the stories are first and foremost concerned with the individual and representing each individual portrayed accurately and honestly.
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Taking stock
… is sited in a near and uncertain future in the Rust Belt of America. The title of this thesis refers to three interrelated conditions, industrial technology, material culture and architectural agency. 'Taking' refers to the act of taking control and reclaiming agency. 'Stock' under describes the …
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Regeneration of Ccuyahoga Flats – [De]-Industrialized Riverfront in Cleveland, Ohio
Post-industrial riverfronts in the ‘Rust-Belt’ region of the United States have faced the consequences of [de]industrialization, including massive ecological disturbances. The Lower Cuyahoga River in Cleveland started facing those consequences when it was modified in the 1800s. The river channel …
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U.S. Cities Taking Sustainability Seriously: The Impacts of Sustainability Policies on Economic Growth and Poverty
… case study analysis of three U.S. cities in the 'Rust Belt' region. Cleveland, OH, Indianapolis, IN, and Milwaukee, WI all 'take sustainability seriously' while addressing the problems of economic development and poverty. I conclude that these cities are hindered in their efforts to take …
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The economic impact of major sports events: a case study of Sheffield
<p>In the mid-to-late 1980's, so called 'rust belt' cities in the UK began to respond to their industrial decline with local economic development strategies aimed at boosting employment. The strategies involved efforts to diversify traditional manufacturing heartlands into new service sector …
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