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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Urban Decline"”.
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IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF URBAN DECLINE ON COUPLED HUMAN AND WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
Urban decline in once vibrant cities has introduced many challenges to managing civil infrastructure. The fixed infrastructure footprint does not contract with the declining population, but remains relatively stable, resulting in underfunded and underutilized infrastructure. The focus of this …
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Mesh network model for urban area
… economic opportunities are all symptoms of urban decline. These characteristics are, unfortunately, evident in major cities and small towns. Local municipalities in these cities and towns with the aid of state and federal government have attempted to reverse urban decline through the …
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Detroit in Decline: An investigation into the dynamics of two urban neighbourhoods
Urban decline is often understood as the opposite of urban growth, yet this conceptualization is oversimplified, obscuring a genuine understanding of the social and spatial realities of the city today. Through the study of Detroit and, in particular, through a close reading of two residential …
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Saving Salt City: Fighting Inequality Through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975
… for change generated by citizens in Northern urban spaces. This project recovers Syracuse's legacy as a laboratory of experimentation for social movement organizing as well as federal social welfare policy implementation. It contributes to the historiographies of the long civil rights era, …
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The Political Future of Cities: Camden, New Jersey and the Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act of 2002
… by loss of economic wealth. This has left urban centers in the Northeast and Midwest United States in various states of decline. Located within the sixth largest metropolitan area in the country, the City of Camden, New Jersey is one of America's most distressed cities. During the longest …
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Resident-Led Urban Agriculture And The Hegemony Of Neoliberal Community Development: Eco-Gentrification In A Detroit Neighborhood
… residents in hyper-abandoned and disinvested urban neighborhoods. Using a case study of resident-led neighborhood development in the low-income neighborhood of Brightmoor in Detroit, Michigan, I show how “everyday discourse” of urban decline in Detroit and the possible rehabilitation of the …
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Adaptive Reuse for Aging Populations in Shrinking Cities
… As populations continue to both shrink and age, urban planners must find a way to sustainably support the aging population while also minimizing the repercussions of a decreased tax base and the threat of urban decline. Taken together, these challenges raise the question of how can a shrinking, …
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Three essays on social dynamics and land-use change: framework, model and estimator
… migration, school quality, amenities and urban growth have been established, the current generation of land-use change models does not explicitly model these social dynamics. This omission results in underestimation of new housing construction, and failure to account for urban decline, …
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From subprime loans to unwanted greenspace: An urban political ecology of economic crisis in Cleveland, Ohio
… terms, and how does that move reshape the way urban decline is understood and managed today? Drawing on evidence from Cleveland, Ohio, I investigate how processes of land clearance and re-use have brought together urban ecology, racial inequality, and property markets to direct the pivot from …
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Urban Archipelago reconsidered : a new metabolism in Tokyo Bay for contemporary coastal urbanism
… population and many of its most populated urban areas. Coastal urbanism remains very much in demand despite major risk factors such as sea level rise, longterm shoreline erosion, storm surges, land liquefaction, and subsidence. City-building on reclaimed land is an ambitious form of …
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Reconfiguring racial regimes of ownership: vacancy and the labor of revitalization on Chicago's South Side
… profit in real estate. My dissertation situates urban vacancy squarely within this profit-driven historical co-production of race and property. Third, I conduct ethnographic research in sites where community-centered vacant land revitalization is implemented, specifically Chicago’s Large Lots …
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Banking on land: A critical review of land banking in the United States
… on a perennially growing – or at least stable – urban core to a more complex and uneven patchwork of localized growth and decline. Declining areas have incurred a myriad of symptoms wrought by losses in population and economic activity. One symptom has been the abandonment of real property; …
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Urban Growth and Segregation in the Roanoke, Virginia, Metropolis: The Effects of Low-Density Development on Low-Income Populations and Racial Minorities
This dissertation examines urban growth patterns in the Roanoke, Virginia, metropolis. It draws on the literature of contemporary human ecology and social area analysis to examine the effects of low-density development on low-income populations and racial minorities. The continuous spread of …