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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"and New Orleans"”.
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HOPE VI: A Case Study of Pittsburgh and New Orleans
… HOPE VI in two neighborhoods, one in Pittsburgh and one in New Orleans, to determine policy success or failure. The research hypothesis is that HOPE VI was successful in revitalizing these communities. The method of research utilizes population projections and descriptive social indicators from …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
… of two southern cities: Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. It looks primarily at four major newspapers, two in each city: the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Whig; and the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the New Orleans Whig. These four newspapers were examined thoroughly from …
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Death, Death, I Know Thee Now!' Mourning Jewelry in England and New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
<p>Descriptions of mourning adornments in England and New Orleans in the nineteenth century are used to argue that many of the customs of mourning in England -- the designs, themes, and materials -- also were present in New Orleans. This study draws from these observations and sources to suggest …
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Exporting resilience : evaluating US-Netherlands collaborations aimed at enhancing flooding resilience in New York City and New Orleans
… partnerships have developed between the Netherlands and various governmental bodies in the United States with the express goal of helping cities enhance their resilience to serious flooding. At the core of these partnerships is the belief that governmental and non-governmental institutions in …
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Countering Youth Incarceration: Community Strategies in New Orleans and Cape Town
… strategies addressing high youth incarceration and recidivism rates in the cities of Cape Town and New Orleans. Working within a theoretical framework of structural violence, I argue that the dominant discourse of Criminal Justice is based in punitive and retributive methodologies that have …
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Making and unmaking the dry city : the design-politics of flood mitigation from infrastructural modernization to climate adaptation
City leaders around the world are planning new infrastructure in response to the compound challenges of 1) flooding linked to climate change and 2) uneven urbanization. Advocates of contemporary flood mitigation efforts often frame their proposals as qualitatively different than the 'gray' levee …
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The Role of Community Land Trusts in Preserving and Creating Commercial Assets: A Dual Cae Study of Rondo CLT in St. Paul, Minnesota and Crescent City CLT in New Orleans, Louisiana
<p>As the community land trust (CLT) movement in the United States approaches its 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary, CLT members, practitioners and researchers are exploring and pushing the boundaries of the model. CLTs offer an alternative model of land use tenure that permanently removes properties …
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New Orleans' Plasterers' Union Local 93: Afro-Creole Identity, Family and Organized Labor, 1898-1954
The Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Union Local 93 was founded as a racially integrated union in New Orleans at the turn of the twentieth century. The Union was established by Irish Americans and New Orleans Afro-Creoles and represents a continuation of an Afro-Creole protest …
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Museums, Disasters, and Resilience: The Presbytère's Living with Hurricanes—Katrina and Beyond Exhibit
… of cultural heritage, museums, disasters, and resilience. Using The Presbytère museum's exhibit, <em>Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond</em> as a case study, I critically examined <em>who</em> is represented in the exhibit and how, what roles museum professionals and New Orleans …
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The infrastructural complex : a return to big design
A new pattern of territorial settlement is proposed for the 70 mile-long strip straddling the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana (here termed the "South Louisiana-Mississippi River Corridor"). Current urban design paradigms at work in the area are ill-equipped to deal …
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Burn: A Novel
… an interpretation of Aeneas as a traumatic hero, and as such, she continually tries to revise her history and rewrite it. Burn begins with Angie's adolescent proclamation of love for her best friend, Margaret, and throughout the difficulties of her life, Angie attempts to return to that moment of …
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Trad Jazz: Pre-War Aurality in the Postmodern City
… interrelated traditional (“trad”) jazz scenes in New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana, this dissertation argues that gentrification – a class concept coined in 1960’s sociology – is best understood intersectionally across boundaries of race, class, and gender. Drawing from formal interviews, …
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Finding the higher ground : assessing contrasting approaches to planning for climate change induced resettlement
… that how planners in different political and economic contexts around the world respond will be shaped in large part by how they have traditionally planned. If so, it is important to consider the strengths and weaknesses of these different planning frameworks when applied to CCIR. This is …
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Applied palynology: Multidisciplinary case studies from Egypt, Gulf of Mexico and USA
… Gulf of Mexico, eastern Tennessee (USA), and New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). In these case studies, palynomorphs (spores, pollen, dinoflagellate cysts, and algae) have been utilized to define zones of hydrocarbon potential, reconstruct paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic conditions, …
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Understanding Mechanisms of Water Lead Contamination by Nitrate Spallation Corrosion and Lead Removal by Point-of-Use (POU) Filters
… of water from lead-tin solder corrosion and achieving effective removal of particulate lead by point-of-use (POU) filters are important public health goals. These topics are especially timely given forthcoming revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule and ongoing efforts to reduce lead levels …
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Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
… inquiry for the second half of the 20th century and continues to be a subject of investigation. All hypotheses about the development of AAE integrate ideas of shared linguistic features coupled with strong regional influences or founding effects. Most Southern evidence used in the development of …
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The New Orleans Female Orphan Society: Labor, Education, and Americanization, 1817-1833
… few decades of the nineteenth century, Americans and immigrants moved to New Orleans hoping to take advantage of the opportunities the city offered. Many American citizens moved from cities like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Recognizing the lack of social welfare programs and assistance …
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Floating Bath Houses: Public Health and Recreation for the Working Class in Nineteenth-century New Orleans
… lost aspect of working-class life in antebellum New Orleans stems from the effort of entrepreneurs to provide bathing and swimming facilities for the city's working poor. In exchange for a relatively inexpensive fee per use, working-class New Orleanians served as the customer base for “floating …
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Beyond the Ancestral Skillet: Four Louisiana Women and Their Cookbooks, 1930-1970
… ability to record women.s history, both private and public. Cookbooks transmit not only instructions for preparing specific dishes, but also the values of class, race and gender of the times and places in which they are created. This study will focus on several such cookbooks produced by …