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The Reform of City Government in Russia, 1860--1870
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Impact of racial transition on the management of city government.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Linking GIS, youth environmental literacy, and city government functions to define and catalyze community heat resilience planning in Roanoke, VA
… enact resilience planning efforts that no single governmental agency is responsible for. I analyzed the various impacts that artifacts produced by a 2021 science education program conducted with Roanoke City middle school students inflicted on a 2022 focus group comprised of influential Roanoke …
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The Development of Local Government Leaders: The Use of Competencies and Methods in a City Context
<p>How do local government leaders perceive the development of their leadership competencies and the methods they have used to acquire competencies to meet on-the-job challenges in a city context? There have been few attempts to document leaders’ perceptions of the competencies they need or how …
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A city hall for Welch, West Virginia
… a study of the existing conditions of local government facilities within the city of Welch, West Virginia, showing the need for a new local government building and fire station; (b) to present the findings of a study made to determine the facilities needed to fulfill the requirements of the …
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Urban Mobility Transitions: Governing through Experimentation in Bristol and New York City
… decades in two cities: Bristol (UK) and New York City (USA) between 1996/7 and 2016. The findings demonstrate that experiments can contribute to transforming the physical shape of urban mobility systems and the institutions involved in governing them, and can even contribute to transitions, if …
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History in Collaboration: Equalizing the Arts and the Humanities in San Francisco
… currently managed by other divisions with in city government, such as the Planning Department and the Office and Economic and Workforce Development. City government necessarily takes time to reorganize, so the first step will be to advocate for and demonstrate the need for a Department of …
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Decentralizing citizen participation in the planning process: a study of the community boards on Staten Island
… the official citizen advisory bodies in New York City known as the community boards. The boards were considered within the framework of recent moves for decentralization of city government and increased opportunities for citizen participation. They were evaluated in terms of: (1) their ability to …
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Perpetual Care
… typology and department within the Boston city government, the Department of Death, to provide an expanded set of death-related services.
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Data and decontrol : a civic-tech approach for identification of predatory landlords in the New York City rent-regulated housing market
With New York City in the throes of a severe affordable housing crisis, the City government and housing advocates have worked tirelessly towards the identification of landlords whose profit model is based on fraudulent deregulation of the rent-regulated housing stock. The problem is that these bad …
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Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies
… to obtain policy outcomes by leveraging intergovernmental competition); 2) the revenue capacity of the primary city government (representing the ability to obtain policy outcomes by lobbying a large-scale government); and 3) the prevalence of special district governments (representing the …
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Homelessness in the West: business improvement districts as the strategic weaponization of class monopoly rent
… homeless crisis in Seattle Washington. The city of Seattle Washington is home to a plethora of successful and ever-expanding international corporations. Within and around the city the headquarters of tech giants Microsoft and Amazon can be found. The continued success of these companies has …
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Interstitial DenCity : an architectural apparatus of political mediations in Chinese urban villages
Since the 1979 Economic Reform, the Chinese government's authoritarian interference with land use development to serve developers and its own interests has led to incongruent development between industrialization and urbanization. This process of land commodification has resulted in the demolition …
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Politics and Pandemic in 1918 Kansas City
… pandemic in history and citizens of Kansas City died in larger numbers due to politics. Kansas City government was under the control of two powerful political bosses, Democrats Tom Pendergast and Joe Shannon, who had an uneasy agreement to split the cities' patronage jobs equally between …
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Between North and South: the politics of race in Jim Crow Memphis
… neither a Southern nor a Northern American city, but a borderland locality. As such, the rules of racial hierarchy that served as the backbone of Jim Crow apartheid operated differently than in Deep South or Northern cities. Between 1910 and 1954, the Memphis city government was led by one …
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Developing a Practical Ideal Type Gentrification Effects Mitigation Program: A Study of Austin, Texas
… of residents making the choice to move to inner city neighborhoods that have experienced decades of neglect. Gentrification encourages redevelopment and revitalization while also increasing the risk for involuntary incumbent resident displacement. This research focuses on city programs dedicated …
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Community Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970-1995
… reinvestment movement is unusual in that the city government used an interstate banking law to force reinvestment. Furthermore, I describe class-based barriers to reinvestment within the African American community and the community development and reinvestment struggle of the Adams Morgan …
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Trust Machines: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Humans in Cultures of Mistrust
… on a consensual basis) and I describe how a city government in Argentina is interpreting this imaginary.
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One thousand friends of food : strategies for the implementation of local food policy in New York City
This thesis is an exploration into how New York City can incorporate local food system planning into their existing sustainability program by capitalizing on recent energy and grassroots initiatives. I argue for the importance of local and regionally produced food as a part of food system …
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A Framework Roadmap For Implementing Lean Six Sigma In Local Governmental Entities
… Lean Six Sigma programs applied to local government. This research provides a framework roadmap for implementing Lean Six Sigma in local government. The Service Improvement for Transaction-based Entities Lean Six Sigma Framework Roadmap (SITE MAP) identifies the activities, principles, …
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