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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"community control"”.
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Milton Park : housing ownership and community control
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch. in Advanced Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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From consumer participation to community control of neighborhood health centers.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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Community control and neighborhood development : anarchy pluralism, and supports as models for analysis
This thesis explores the conditions of community control and neighborhood development. The existing theories of anarchy, pluralism and supports, as found in the literature, form the groundwork for the thesis argument. The theories are used to construct conceptual models of community control …
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National survey of the attitude of school board members toward community participation--community control
Community participation has increased over the last twenty years. The states of California, Florida, Hawaii and South Carolina have mandated representative community advisory councils. The purpose of this study was to investigate on a national level the attitude of local school board members toward …
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Open spaces in the North End, Boston : guidelines for community control over the functional and formal characteristics of the physical structure.
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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African American women and tenant management of public housing: A case study of Stella Wright
… the theories and praxis of struggles for community-control of public housing in the era of Black Power through a case study of the Stella Wright Rent Strike. From 1970 to 1974, tenants of the Stella Windsor Wright Homes in Newark, NJ, waged the longest rent strike in the history of public …
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"Good jobs, not gentrification" : the fight for community centered development in Roxbury
… the potential and limitations of organizing for community control and employment benefits in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. Following decades of disinvestment, this community is experiencing an upsurge in new commercial and residential construction. Concerns about gentrification and displacement …
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Communities of the Dispossessed or Technocratic Housing Nonprofits? Political Logics Animating Community Land Trusts across the American Southwest
… political goals, frameworks, and practices of Community Land Trusts (CLTs) across the Southwest, in order to contribute to ongoing scholarly conversations about the potential cooptation of the CLT movement. In doing so, it contributes to the perennial question of how actors might challenge or …
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Show me what community looks like! : designing a popular education curriculum for a Los Angeles-based CLT
… education can empower individuals and foster community control. It is based on my experience co-creating a curriculum with a South Los Angeles community land trust. This project incorporates elements of popular education, critical pedagogy, alternative models of housing tenure, and …
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Enduring history : the struggle to control the future of Houston's oldest African American neighborhood
… Town, Houston's oldest African American community and one of the city's most contested spaces, is explored. For the past twenty years, developers, mayors and downtown business interests have pushed for the redevelopment of Freedmen's Town, one of the poorest and most run-down sections of …
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Better Health for Whom: Exploring the Relationship Between Pedestrian-Oriented Zoning and Gentrification
… require a more radical approach to development, community control, and local governance.
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Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963--1971
… equality. Because of Mayor Richard J. Daley's control of Chicago and his support of Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis's maintenance of segregation, Civil Rights organizing efforts fell on deaf ears. Few significant changes were made during the Civil Rights era. As Black Power ideology grew …
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More Than a Sum of its Parts: Five Fundamentals for Formative Peer Observation of Classroom Teaching in Higher Education
… elements of peer observation (design, community, control, training, reflection) are put forth as a nexus at which meaningful and formative peer observation can be undertaken. A selection of empirically based methods for conducting peer observation is also presented. The second …
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(Re)envisioning Land and Power: A Fight for Community Ownership + Control in Massachusetts
… (HNSRC) to help them develop a toolkit for community ownership + control. The toolkit explores what it takes to carry out community-led transformation for collective spaces. The toolkit came together through a participatory action research (PAR) process that built on years of …
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Mapping impact : an analysis of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Land Trust
… the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) community land trust, which provides long-term affordable housing to low-income families using a resale-restricted model and promotes community control over development. It seeks to answer the following question: how much and in what ways has DSNI's …
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Essays on the political economy of land use regulation
… living in urban areas, the tradition of de facto community control of land-use regulation has come under increasing scrutiny. To investigate the consequences of this system of decentralized zoning, I integrate locally-controlled, endogenous zoning into a structural city model. Residents sort into …
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Carbon finance, tropical forests and the state : governing international climate risk in the Democratic Republic of Congo
… for carbon management, as well as strengthening community control of resources so that the decision to participate in the provisioning of global public goods can be made with more autonomy.
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… storytelling to support Black spatial memory and community sovereignty. Grounded in fieldwork on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina—a historic Gullah Geechee community confronting dispossession and cultural enclosure—the project co-creates Daufuskie3D (https://daufuskie3d.org/), an interactive …
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The Forgotten Fight: Waging War on Poverty in New York City, 1945-1980
This dissertation recounts how community groups in postwar New York City tapped into growing government engagement with urban problems, which culminated in President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 declaration of "unconditional war on poverty." Focusing on the discourse among grassroots activists, social …
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