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Small Town Gangs
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Elevating Small Town Streetscape
… expanding the urban fabric of Blacksburg, a small town, by building multilevel streetscapes and community spaces that contribute to the town's character and identity. The vertical street could accommodate more amenities, commercial spaces, and residential units without encroaching on …
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The Small-Town NFL Player
… or professional player based on an athlete’s hometown. The research is evident that a player from a smaller town has better odds of making it to the elite level of sport compared to a player from a large urban city. Where an athlete is raised is important in understanding how they were introduced …
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Small-Town Mentality and Female Perspectives
… born of a new way thinking. In the new dimension small-town and big-city mentality could be distinguished. My thesis consists of four main chapters and several subchapters. I divided the first chapter into three parts. First, I write, briefly, about the changed conditions and circumstances that …
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Retaining Distinction; Restructuring a Small Town
This urban thesis proposes the restructuring of a small railroad town that concentrates on vertical growth, publicly shared urban spaces, and the distinction between town and country. A new organization of building types reflects the modern lifestyle of the town which focuses on the integration of …
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Small town development opportunities : Stow, Massachusetts, 1985
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.
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Assessment of small town form and patterns
… provide context for new development proposals. Small towns are becoming more attractive to people looking for a place to live. Therefore, these areas are experiencing rapid growth. There is a need for a method that can be used to assess the physical forms and patterns of small towns. The …
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Agrivale: A Phantasmagorical Project for a Small Town
… thesis proposes a fictional future in the small town of Keswick, Georgina, Ontario. It addresses growing concerns surrounding food resources and arable land. Agrivale is the story of transition to a self-sustainable town; a speculative proposal that explores food as festivity, celebrating …
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Small Town: Urban Struggles in a Rural Community
… and provide a glimpse into Fairmont, a small rural village in Central Illinois. These stories depict several challenges faced by Geoff and Michael and the ways in which they dealt with them. Their life stories provide an interpretive ethnographic depiction of a small town, showing the …
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Sense-of-place ideals in small town planning
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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The Unconventional Candidate: Agenda-Setting in Small-Town Politics
… sway over the ideologies and opinions of a small town like Columbia.</p>
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Reflection and Acceptance: Small Town Ghosts Represented in Poetry
… to represent a group of people in a rural small town. Rural realism and supernatural surrealism both create a sense of community for readers. In the end, the manuscript of poetry aims to establish a connection between the speaker and the community. After this manuscript of poetry, I discuss …
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Small Town Residential Satisfaction in the Springfield, Missouri Msa
… to planning. The study focused on four small but rapidly growing towns located near a larger central city. The study goals were: (1) to determine the factors providing residential satisfaction, (2) to determine the major concerns in each community which may affect residential …
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Southern Fiction: Southern Small-Town Culture and Its Landmarks
<p>Southern small-town culture is marked by a close-knit community's strict societal expectations and hierarchy, the undeniable familiarity of all the residents and their business in a particular small town such as Bloomingdale, Georgia; and a resistance or inability to be affected by time. The …
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Private land, public interest : small town meets big dairy
This paper examines a grassroots effort undertaken by local residents of the communities of Nora and Warren in northwest Illinois in their attempt to prohibit the construction of a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) in their county. In particular, it is an attempt to understand and …
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Connections Through Stories In A Small Town in Rural Virginia
… place-based research was conducted in Virginia’s small, rural community with a history of family and tradition, patriotism and loyalty, segregation, and polarity, all with the beautiful backdrop of the town’s mountains. The research led to five findings: the Storytelling Workshop created …
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Making It Work: Small-Town System Building in Homelessness Service
<p>While homelessness presented an opportunity to create a more comprehensive approach to poverty elimination nationwide, existing institutions skirted ownership, the American tradition of localism prevailed, and in the early 1980s homelessness services were developed by non-profit entrepreneurs …
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Urban design for small town regeneration: A socio-ecological approach
South Africa is a country with many small towns, each rich in heritage and culture and with their own unique spatial character. Unfortunately, most small towns are in distress. The focus of investment to bring about spatial transformation has typically been in either cities, or villages; i.e. urban …
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Fincastle, Virginia, 1772-1942: a study of small town life
A knowledge of the characteristics of a town situation should make some contribution to the understanding of small town life. A survey of a particular town should unfold somewhat the way towns function, the way social controls operate, and especially the saga of social change. The purpose of this …
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The use of "visioning" in the preservation of small town character
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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