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2015

Housing

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The Opportunistic House For Tehran: A Design Prototype, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2015

The Opportunistic House For Tehran: A Design Prototype, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

This article is an advocacy research for Tehran, promoting an implication of architectural design as a tool for citizen empowerment and positive environmental change. In the article, I am offering a fresh look at Tehran’s housing problems by speculating an “opportunistic house” typology as a residential style that would serve much more than just shelter. I am making a case for a new house prototype that applies socially-equitable solutions in design. My study finds applications and significance beyond plain housing design and, mainly, onto the design of ad hoc urban public realm spaces. This is in accord with my overarching …

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Eviction Court And A Judicial Duty Of Inquiry, Harold J. Krent Sep 2015

Eviction Court And A Judicial Duty Of Inquiry, Harold J. Krent

Harold J. Krent

ABSTRACT

The Illinois Appellate Court in Draper & Kramer v. King reversed a court ordered eviction on the ground that the tenant likely did not appreciate that she had agreed in a settlement to vacate her residence in addition to paying arrears on rent. In the chaotic environment of eviction court proceedings, tenants too often pledge paying back rent without realizing that, at the same time, they have agreed to be evicted and that the court ordered eviction will follow them for the rest of their lives. In Chicago, at least, the potential for confusion is enhanced because the agreed …

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Edilizia Residenziale Convenzionata E Fallimento Della Cooperativa Concessionaria, Valentina Gastaldo Jul 2015

Edilizia Residenziale Convenzionata E Fallimento Della Cooperativa Concessionaria, Valentina Gastaldo

Valentina Gastaldo

L’edilizia convenzionata rappresenta una forma particolare, ma molto comune di edilizia pubblica. L’acuirsi della crisi economica e finanziaria, che negli ultimi anni ha colpito il nostro Paese, ha inevitabilmente dato origine ad innumerevoli problemi durante la fase di realizzazione degli impegni assunti in sede di convenzione. Il saggio si pone l’obiettivo di esaminare l’ipotesi di fallimento della cooperativa concessionaria ed, in particolare, se la sentenza di fallimento comporti l’automatica decadenza della convezione stipulata con l’Amministrazione Comunale. Un ulteriore quesito riguarda, poi, le sorti della convenzione in caso di risoluzione del contratto di locazione stipulato tra la cooperativa fallita ed il …

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Integration Maintenance: The Unconstitutionality Of Benign Programs That Discourage Black Entry To Prevent White Flight, Rodney A. Smolla Jul 2015

Integration Maintenance: The Unconstitutionality Of Benign Programs That Discourage Black Entry To Prevent White Flight, Rodney A. Smolla

Rod Smolla

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Yes To Infill, No To Nuisance, Michael Lewyn Apr 2015

Yes To Infill, No To Nuisance, Michael Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

This article argues against the use of private nuisance suits to exclude apartments from residential neighborhoods, based on the public interest in affordable housing and walkable infill development.

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The 1995 Lsay Year 9 Cohort: 24 Year-Olds In 2005, Catherine Underwood, Kylie Hillman, Sheldon Rothman Apr 2015

The 1995 Lsay Year 9 Cohort: 24 Year-Olds In 2005, Catherine Underwood, Kylie Hillman, Sheldon Rothman

Kylie Hillman

This report provides details of the experiences of the 1995 Year 9 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY). Information on this cohort was first collected in 1995, when these young people were Year 9 students in Australian schools. The reference period for this report is 2005, when the modal age of respondents was 24 years. Information about the 1995 Year 9 LSAY cohort’s activities in previous years is available in earlier reports in this series.

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Branding Identity, Kate Elengold Dec 2014

Branding Identity, Kate Elengold

Kate Elengold

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against discrimination on the
basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin—the so-called “protected
classes.” To make out a successful civil rights claim under the
current legal structure, a plaintiff must first identify the protected class
under which her claim arises (i.e., race or religion). She must then
identify a subclass of that protected class (i.e., African American race or
Christian religion) and assert that, due to her membership in or relationship
to that subclass, she was treated differently in violation of the law.
This Article explores the disconnect between self-identity and …

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American Dreams, American Realities, Michael Lewyn Dec 2014

American Dreams, American Realities, Michael Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

Review of Zoned In The USA, by Sonia Hirt.

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Boundary Work In Black Middle-Class Communities, Stephen Clowney Dec 2014

Boundary Work In Black Middle-Class Communities, Stephen Clowney

Stephen Clowney

This piece, written for the "Re-Integrating Spaces" symposium at Savannah Law School, explores the spatial reality of black middle-class communities.

Most African-Americans are not poor. In fact, an overwhelming majority of black Americans are squarely entrenched in the rungs of the (lower) middle class. Despite this statistical reality, almost all of the legal scholarship on African-Americans focuses on the struggles of the very poorest black citizens. This brief Article hopes to reverse the trend. Building on insights from sociology and economics, the following pages explore the housing situation of middle-class African-Americans and the resulting geographic setting of non-poor black neighborhoods. …

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2015 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn Dec 2014

2015 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

2015 blog posts on urban issues from planetizen.com

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