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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"urban neighborhoods"”.
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Redlining urban neighborhoods : mortgage risk myths or realities
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Modernity of Chinese urban neighborhoods : toward new spatial forms
… about how to balance technology and humanity in urban neighborhood development. Modem technology creates many new spatial forms for Chinese urban neighborhoods, but it also destroys many traditional fundamental characteristics. Because of lacking systemic analysis tools, ignoring ecologically …
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Returning to the city : sense of place in urban neighborhoods
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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Discordant cities: how chain stores affect community life in urban neighborhoods
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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The Evaluation of Urban Neighborhoods: Individual Differences in Perception and Preference
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T04:57:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606803.pdf: 7660408 bytes, checksum: 7c8c100014e22bfd5ed73fe0d0326d2f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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A Secondary Analysis of Social Disorganization Theory in Urban Neighborhoods of Mexico City
… of household, total monthly family income and urban residences. The data was obtained from a non-governmental institute who conducts annual assessment in metropolitan with self-report questionnaires that address perceptions and victimizations. Associations statistically significant between …
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Casinos in context : the impacts of stand-alone casino development on urban neighborhoods
… and governments seek more sources of revenue the urban casino is becoming more common. Many of these are legalized to operate with limited competition in their state, standing alone in their respective city. while the general, diffuse impacts of casinos have been well studied, the paucity of …
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Detecting the socioeconomic conditions of urban neighborhoods through wavelet analysis of remotely sensed imagery
… used to detect the social-economic conditions of urban neighborhood is a key research question that needs further study. The hypotheses of this study were: 1) neural networks yielded higher classification accuracy than linear discriminant analysis and the minimum-distance classifier based on …
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Diversity and Economic Development in Urban Neighborhoods: A Case Analysis of Columbia City, Seattle
… in Columbia City, one of Seattle's most diverse neighborhoods. Case studies of diverse metropolitan neighborhoods have not considered the impacts of diversity on economic development directly, and quantitative studies regarding diversity and economic development have produced conflicting results. …
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Here comes the SUN : a case study of the Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts
… effects of foreclosures on households and neighborhoods. To date, the impact of these prevention and mitigation programs has been small compared to the scale of the problem, presenting a substantial opportunity for new models for addressing foreclosures. In 2009, Boston Community Capital …
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Ecovillages as models for sustainable urban neighborhoods : design guidelines and methods for understanding, analyzing and designing sustainable communities
… thesis explores the best practices in ecovillage urban design in urbanized and rural settings to improve the design of current and future ecovillages and to use as a design model communities or designers in building sustainable communities, as urban design is inherently linked to sustainability. …
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Saving our Sons: The Impact of a Single Gender Public School on the Social, Emotional, and Academic Progress of Young African American Males From Low Socioeconomic Urban Neighborhoods
… of the coeducational public schools within the urban centers of the United States are not achieving academically. It is the researcher’s opinion that many of the coeducational public schools, in large urban cities, are not meeting the social and emotional needs of their African American males, …
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The commodification of community in residential real estate : the developer as community-builder for generation Y
As the Millennial generation flocks to urban neighborhoods, large apartment developers are offering new residential models that offer "community-oriented" living, externalizing some of the features traditionally limited to private homes (e.g., communal kitchens, group party spaces, even shared …
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Towards a robust life cycle assessment tool for sustainable pavement designs : quantifying context-specific impacts of pavement albedo
… of pavement albedo modification strategies in urban neighborhoods. To estimate RF impact, we adapt an empirical analytical model from the literature and further incorporate the effects of cloudiness and shadings in the urban area. For BED, we develop a hybrid framework coupling multiple …
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A framework for community design : Worcester's Main South neighborhood
… intended as a utopian alternative to crowded urban conditions. However, the current model of residential suburban development in the United States grows less affordable for many Americans, segregates private life to a realm exclusive of community and wastefully consumes material resources . …
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Older adult homeowners, gentrification, and aging in the right place : challenges and opportunities in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, Massachusetts
… have shown that older adult homeowners living in urban neighborhoods prefer to age in their existing homes and benefit from the familiarity, attachment, and sense of belonging that comes from living in one place for an extended period. However, increases in cost of living and major changes to …
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Developing the small, mixed-use urban project : contribution to neighborhood revitalization
Through out many cities in America, urban neighborhoods are characterized by the diminished vitality and extensive deterioration of their overall landscape. The consequences of modem city planning, architectural design and real estate development through out the past thirty years have abrogated …
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Reinforcing social infrastructure : the role of physical interventions in revitalizing Hyde Square in Jamaica Plain
… government have tried to transform distressed urban neighborhoods unsuccessfully through either social or physical agendas. Hyde Square is an important case study in that it shows a successful approach to linking physical to social changes to revitalize a distressed urban neighborhood. This …
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TREATING ALS WITH QUALITY OF LIFE IN LOW-INCOME URBAN PATIENT POPULATIONS
… factors. For patients in low-income urban neighborhoods, inequalities affecting agency should be evaluated as part of medical care to increase both autonomy and overall quality of life.
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Chicana /O Murals of California: Indigenist Aesthetics and the Politics of Space, 1970--2000
… the walls along the streets of the barrios and urban neighborhoods through out the country.
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