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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"urban blight"”.
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Life on the streets: rebuilding community in America's cities
A study of the current urban condition in America with a focus on the lack of permanent residents and community mindedness in our urban centers. The sources of urban blight are discussed along with some possible cures or solutions. A proposal for change is submitted for urban centers in general and …
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Can Gentrification Improve Education for Low-Income Minority Students?
… the northeast has long been one of the faces for urban blight and is one of the most troubled cities in the state of New Jersey in terms of crime, poverty, and academic performance.</p> <p>Out of gentrification expensive chain stores, high priced rental units, and charter schools are born. …
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The food assembly : architecture of sustenance for the new industrial city
… problems, which include: a declining tax base, urban blight, inaccessible transportation, a waning workforce, lower educational attainment, and food insecurity. Through this conglomeration of factors, the city will inevitably witness the rise of a New Agrarian society. These New Agrarians will …
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Edible Cultures: The Politics and Ethics of Recuperating Food Waste
… not only abandoned food but also abandoned urban spaces. In this case, a mobile soup kitchen aims to revitalize urban blight through feeding the city’s hungriest residents—giving sustenance by means of scrappy collaborations between volunteers, citizens, and immigrants.</p><p>Through …
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Sistemi di appropriazione e approcci alla riqualificazione delle megastrutture per l'edilizia residenziale pubblica negli anni 60-70. Il caso del quartiere Sant’Elia a Cagliari
… per l’edilizia economica e popolare”. Based on urban theories elaborated in that period and based on the proposition that large-scale housing schemes can create new parts of the city, these estates have attracted strongly negative criticism. In reality they created mono-functional places where …
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Comparative study of urban redevelopment in the United States and Great Britain.
This thesis is a study of the urban redevelopment policies and programs of the United States and Great Britain. It attempts to survey the political and legal aspects of urban redevelopment as well as the procedures of implementation and administration. The United Kingdom's urban redevelopment …
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Derelict to Dynamic: Examining Socioecological Productivity of Underutilized/Abandoned Industrial Infrastructure, and Application in Baltimore, Maryland
… heightened inclusivity of social and natural urban functions. Socioecological inequities are often highly conspicuous in declining post-industrial American cities such as Baltimore. Chronic social, economic, and environmental perturbations have rendered some of once critical American …
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ME WITHOUT YOU
… collection of short stories set in the blight of an urban housing project in San Bernardino, California. The stories follow the lives of three students in their year of fourth grade at a low performing school. Narrated from these points of view, the collection amplifies the voices of a …