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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"urban research"”.
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The Influence Of Student Engagement On Student Retention At A Midwest Urban Research Institution
… student engagement has on those areas. Three research questions were posed for this study. The questions looked at the differences between national outcomes as compared to those in an urban-commuter, University in the Midwest; the differences between African American students and Caucasian …
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On Theory, Knowledge and Practice in Housing and Urban Research: A Phenomenology of Conflict and reconciliation
… had a major impact within European housing and urban research over the last two and a half decades, not least by crystalizing its epistemic divisions into ‘mainstream’ and ‘critical’ (Webb 2012). In the face of Kemeny’s critique, ‘mainstream’ housing and urban researchers have remained wedded to …
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Areal representational issues in using census data for urban research : a comparative analysis of Japanese and U.S. formats
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Sensing Urban Dynamics Through Crowdsourced Data with the Support of Machine Learning Techniques
… geotagged images has attracted the attention of urban researchers, as it provides first-hand information regarding human activities, perception and the interaction with the built environment, helping researchers illuminate a richer sense of what cities are all about from data itself. Despite the …
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Rhetorical outcomes: A genre analysis of student service-learning writing
… intermediate writing course at a Midwestern urban research university. Results of the analysis are then used to develop a contextualized writing assessment framework to evaluate student writing outcomes and to consider the implications of using contemporary genre theory for both …
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Early College Academic Performance: Studying the Effects of Earning College Credits from Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment
… cohorts who began their education at a large urban research I university in fall 2007. These cohorts of fall 2007 first year and first time college admits comprise students who earned college credits in high school by participation in Credit Based Transition Programs (CBTPs), specifically AP …
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Land use planning innovations in the midst of a 'Migration Crisis' : developing a spatial definition of refugee integration
… record high and refugee crises are increasingly urban. Research on forced migration has historically focused on the obligations of the nation state, overshadowing the role of cities in urban displacement. Using the conceptual framework of a refugee's 'right to the city,' this thesis seeks to …
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The Struggle Is Real: Black Doctoral Students' Perceptions Aspiring to the Professoriate
This qualitative research explored the unique experiences of Black doctoral students. Specifically, Black doctoral students’ perceptions of themselves, their academic program, and the possible role of racism were explored as factors that may contribute to the Black Faculty Gap phenomena. Study …
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Ecological footprint as an indicator of national and city level sustainability. A case study of Bangladesh with a focus on Narayanganj
This thesis addresses urban sustainability from an ecological footprint viewpoint to make cities inclusive, safe and livable in Bangladesh under the SDG-11 of the Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals-2030. Previous empirical studies on Bangladesh do not focus on Ecological Footprint (EF), and …
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Urban Mobility Transitions: Governing through Experimentation in Bristol and New York City
… from car-dominance is one of the key debates in urban research, policy and practice today. Car-free public space, cycling and convenient public transport services are widely seen as desirable, yet the reconfiguration of our streets and transport networks has been incremental. This doctoral …
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Institutional Transformation: A Case Study of an Urban Midwestern University
… transformational change effort in an urban research university. The study's focus is on the impact of The Milwaukee Idea on faculty and students as the soul of the university. Literature on transformational change in higher education focuses on the processes for launching this type of …
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Comparison of Event History Analysis and Latent Growth Modeling for College Student Perseverance
… full-time freshmen at a large mid-Atlantic urban research university. Stopouts and transfer students were excluded. Data was analyzed for the first five semesters for each cohort. The results showed that parameter estimates were quite consistent across model type and time frame and were …
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Rural delinquency ; an empirical investigation of delinquency in a rural county, with an attempt at a typology of delinquency
… to show that delinquency was a function of the urban environment. But he, and most of the other workers in the field, was working in an almost completely urban research field. There has been, in fact, little attempt to investigate the field of rural delinquency from the aspect of sociology. As a …
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Marketing Marginalized Neighborhoods: Tourism and Leisure in the 21st Century Inner City
… in a discussion of the forces reconfiguring urban development as well as tourism in the advanced capitalist world, it examines how, by whom, and with what effects the two neighborhoods are re-imagined, re-constructed, and re-experienced as places to visit and explore; unburies the frequently …
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"Effective Evangelism" in the City: Donald McGavran's Missiology and Urban Contexts
… of Donald A. McGavran as it applies in urban contexts. Chapter 1 introduces the research question by examining the current state of global urbanization and urban missions. Alongside the study of urban missions is an outline of the rise of Donald McGavran's church growth thought through …
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Development of the Postsecondary Student Survey of Disability-Related Stigma (SSDRS)
… private liberal arts college and a medium-sized, urban community college (n=85). A preliminary exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis suggested minor changes to the instrument. The pilot results also provided justification for further sampling and more formal analysis of the …
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Participating in Radical Visual Sociology: Supporting housing activism through gentrification and displacement research
… arts practices can be deployed in changing urban contexts without getting co-opted into that change and, instead, help to resist its uneven aspects. It presents a participatory arts and research project which responds to the politics and aesthetics of 21st century state-led gentrification, …
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Understanding Urban Vibrancy and Third Places: A Computational Study of the Social Life of Cities Through Multi-Source Digital Trace Data
Urban vibrancy is a central concept in understanding how cities function socially, reflecting patterns of activity, interaction, and engagement within urban space. Although widely discussed in urban theory and planning, vibrancy remains difficult to observe directly and is typically examined …
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Structured Faculty Mentoring in Higher Education: A Descriptive Analysis of the Perceptions of Junior and Senior Faculty
… core of this study. There is little empirical research on the phenomenon of structured or formal mentoring in higher education from the perspective of both the mentee and the mentor.The purpose of this study was to identify, describe, and analyze the perceived benefits that both senior or more …
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Moving Social Spaces: Public Transportation, Material Differences, and the Power of Mobile Communities in Chicago
<p>Urban research on stratification in the public terrain has focused on how intentional and unintentional physical arrangements and social conventions limit and enable particular kinds of stratification processes and interactions. This prior research primarily focuses on static places such as …
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