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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"eminent domain"”.
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They Took My Bedroom: A Case Study of Eminent Domain in New Orleans
… through the Constitution of theUnited States, eminent domain is possibly the strongest and most imposing, at least as it relates to citizens’ property rights. This dissertation explores several large-scale public undertakings inNew Orleansduring the period from 1929 to 2011 in which the …
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Pricing and eminent domain takings: A case study of residential property in Las Vegas, Nevada
This case study tests whether compensation for eminent domain takings equals estimated market prices for residential property located near McCarran Airport in Clark County Nevada. The hedonic model provides evidence that takings compensation was often less than estimated market price, a discount …
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Whose Hand to Hold? How Administrators Understand Eminent Domain and Where They Turn for Guidance
Controversies surrounding issues related to eminent domain remain in the forefront of academic and public debate, largely attributed to the United States Supreme Court's landmark 2005 ruling on the subject. Much of the academic discourse on eminent domain centers on constitutional dimensions of …
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Confiscation or Serving the Public Good?
… to illustrate not only the importance of eminent domain, but the damage that excessive limitation through public policy might cause.</p> <p>The purpose of this essay is to identify whether eminent domain is for the public benefit, or a government intrusion on one of the most fundamental …
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What's so private about private property?
… is encapsulated in the political act of eminent domain (or expropriation), which permits states to take private property for public use. Moral theory clarifies the role of law as political authorities use eminent domain to negotiate between private and community interests. In this work, I …
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"Can These Be The Sons of Their Fathers" The Defense of Slavery in Virginia, 1831-1832
… This doctrine was the legal concept of eminent domain, the right of the state to take private property for public purposes without the consent of the owner. Arguing that slavery threatened public safety, emancipationists called on the state government to act within its eminent domain …
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From Silence to Sankofa: The Role of Archives in Addressing Urban Renewal’s Displacement History
… the redevelopment of ‘blighted’ areas. Through eminent domain takings, urban renewal projects led to the forced relocation of residents from their homes and neighborhoods, with a disproportionate impact on Black, immigrant, and low-income communities across the country. The archives of the …
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The Battle of Gentrification vs. Centrification: The role of nonprofits
… can curtail gentrification as a form of economic eminent domain.
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An Ideal Model for Nonprofit Community-Based Agriculture: Growing Food Security in Low-Income Communities
… programs and granting organizations the power of eminent domain over tax delinquent vacant lot owners. Conclusion: A model for nonprofit CBA should included the following eight categories: nonprofit legal requirements, volunteer integration and management, marketing, program development, funding, …
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Bristol Place Neighborhood Plan: urban renewal in post-Kelo fiscal policy space
… how a local redevelopment plan’s use of eminent domain represents a new form of urban renewal that reproduces the unequal racial and spatial outcomes of a previous historical era. This case uses interviews with local political actors, financial managers, and civic subjects in addition to …
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A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE COURTNEY-ANDERSON CEMETERY
… who farmed the area until it was taken under eminent domain by the United States government in 1942. The purpose of this thesis is to present three osteobiographies created from human remains and material culture recovered from three graves excavated from within the cemetery in 2022 to explore …
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Prototypes for public infrastructures
… the land the buildings occupy was taken through eminent domain. This thesis proposes an alternative to the existing attitude toward ancillary structures by introducing a series of micro scale public spaces that allow these infrastructures to be reclaimed by the community. These programmatically …
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‘Autogestión’: Community-led Squatting as a Means of Transformative Revitalization of Abandoned Spaces in Puerto Rico
… on how to decolonize planning tools, such as eminent domain and for-profit revitalization, to remove legal barriers and provide formal avenues for collectives to do this work, which is finally reflecting Puerto Rican voices and not outside and fleeting interests.
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Jumpstart: The Literary Utopia in the Aftermath of the Future
… Hall’s The Carhullan Army (2007), Carl Neville’s Eminent Domain (2020), and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020), I suggest that the utopian genre is a hangover from modern temporality. It looks backwards to a time when everything appeared bent on novelty and otherness as a …
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An analysis of the laws in selected areas affecting public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… school purposes by purchase, lease, donation, eminent domain and adverse possession. A board has discretion in allowing school property to be used for community and general purposes but must not act in an arbitrary or capricious manner. School property may be disposed of by sale, lease and by …
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An analysis of the laws affecting boards of education, administrators, and teachers in the state of West Virginia
… school purposes by: purchase, lease, donation, eminent domain, joint establishment and reorganization, and adverse possession. A board has broad discretion in allowing school property to be used for community and general purposes except for religious use. School property may be disposed of by …
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Landowner Response to a Rural Appalachian Natural Gas Pipeline Project
… the perception of inappropriate application of eminent domain law by the pipeline developer and the courts. Distance from the pipeline, the third factor, was moderately associated with attitude toward the project, with less support for pipeline construction among landowners in the blast zone. …
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Expropriation or controlling one’s private assets : does it make a difference?
Expropriation and Control of Use are two very important principles when dealing with possession and use. The aim of this dissertation is to understand better the differences between expropriation and control of use; and to gain a better knowledge of one’s right of compensation, if any, when …
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La indemnización justipreciada recibida por una expropiación y su afectación al impuesto a la renta
El presente trabajo comprenderá dos capítulos. El primer capítulo de carácter general, el cual es trascendental para el posterior capítulo, abarcará el ámbito de aplicación del Impuesto a la Renta, las teorías más difundidas de renta. Asimismo, el concepto de renta enfocado tanto para rentas no …
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