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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Skid Row"”.
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Alternatives to skid row.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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De-gentrifying the streetscape : reclaiming tactical urbanism for San Francisco's Tenderloin
… neighborhood is often described in classic "skid row" terms as a neighborhood characterized by crime, prostitution, drugs, homelessness, seedy hotels, and rampant blight. It is described as 'hopeless' and 'lost', and a place to be avoided at all costs. In reality, the Tenderloin is a more …
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Extending the Geographic Information Systems Research Agenda by Studying the Spatial Dimension of the Complex Real-World Problem of Homelessness
… to resources and services for homeless people in Skid Row, Los Angeles. This chapter also fulfills the third paper requirement for this dissertation. The fifth chapter in this dissertation explores the relationship between physical climate and both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in across …
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Making homes on the road: Transient mobility, domesticity, and culture in the United States, 1870s-1930s
… and West. In boxcars, campsites, and urban skid row districts, transients established communities, created poetry and song, forged intimacies, resisted law enforcement, and organized themselves through unions and fraternal organization. “Making Home on the Road,” reconsiders the role of the …
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Alcohol consumption, cognitive functioning and sober mood in women and men college students
… We are well acquainted with the idea of skid-row alcoholics who have lost everything, including their memory. That long term drinking is associated with cognitive deficits is not surprising, but is there a relationship between cognitive deficits and social drinking in young adults? To …
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Composing community: social practice composition and the performance of community in choral works by Reena Esmail, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang
… Anthracite Fields (2014), and David Lang’s crowd out (2014). Drawing from literature on “social practice” in art criticism and performance studies (Jackson 2011; Bishop 2012; Courage 2017), I introduce the related term social practice composition to characterize the style in which the …
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Ethnographic Narrative
… to the assets, strengths, and opportunities for growth socially and academically for these students. Svetlana is able to use the tools inherent and applied to educate the three students to benefit other students that have similar opportunities for educational and social/emotional growth. Svetlana …