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Selected Works

Amy Hillier

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Full-Text Articles in Architecture

How Far Do Low-Income Parents Travel To Shop For Food?, Amy Hillier, Carolyn Cannuscio, Allison Karpyn, Jacqueline Mclaughlin, Mariana Chilton, Karen Glanz Jul 2011

How Far Do Low-Income Parents Travel To Shop For Food?, Amy Hillier, Carolyn Cannuscio, Allison Karpyn, Jacqueline Mclaughlin, Mariana Chilton, Karen Glanz

Amy Hillier

Research on the impact of the built environment on obesity and access to healthful foods often fails to incorporate information about how individuals interact with their environment. A sample of 198 low-income WIC recipients from two urban neighborhoods were interviewed about where they do their food shopping and surveys were conducted of food stores in their neighborhoods to assess the availability of healthful foods. Results indicate that participants rarely shop at the closest supermarket, traveling on average 1.58 miles for non-WIC food shopping and 1.07 miles for WIC shopping. Findings suggest that access to healthful foods is not synonymous with …


Manual For Working With Arcgis 10, Amy Hillier Jan 2011

Manual For Working With Arcgis 10, Amy Hillier

Amy Hillier

No abstract provided.


Invitation To Mapping: How Gis Can Facilitate New Discovering In Urban And Planning History, Amy Hillier Dec 2009

Invitation To Mapping: How Gis Can Facilitate New Discovering In Urban And Planning History, Amy Hillier

Amy Hillier

No abstract provided.


Clustering Of Unhealthy Advertisements Around Child-Serving Institutions: A Three‐City, Amy Hillier Jan 2009

Clustering Of Unhealthy Advertisements Around Child-Serving Institutions: A Three‐City, Amy Hillier

Amy Hillier

No abstract provided.


Fed-Up With Childhood Obesity, Amy Hillier, Stella Volpe Dec 2008

Fed-Up With Childhood Obesity, Amy Hillier, Stella Volpe

Amy Hillier

No abstract provided.


W.E.B. Du Bois And The Social Survey Movement, Amy Hillier Dec 2008

W.E.B. Du Bois And The Social Survey Movement, Amy Hillier

Amy Hillier

No abstract provided.


Residential Security Maps And Neighborhood Appraisals. The Homeowners' Loan Corporation And The Case Of Philadelphia, Amy E. Hillier Apr 2008

Residential Security Maps And Neighborhood Appraisals. The Homeowners' Loan Corporation And The Case Of Philadelphia, Amy E. Hillier

Amy Hillier

At the request of the Home Loan Bank Board, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) created color-coded maps for cities across the country between 1935 and 1940 that indicated risk levels for long-term real estate investment. Involvement in this City Survey Program marked a departure from the original mission of HOLC to provide new mortgages on an emergency basis to homeowners at risk of losing their homes during the Depression. This article considers why HOLC made these maps, how HOLC created them, and what the basis was for the grades on the maps. Geographic information systems and spatial regression models …


Closing The Gap: Housing (Un)Affordability In Philadelphia, Amy E. Hillier, Dennis P. Culhane Apr 2008

Closing The Gap: Housing (Un)Affordability In Philadelphia, Amy E. Hillier, Dennis P. Culhane

Amy Hillier

No abstract provided.


Who Received Loans? Home Owners' Loan Corporation Lending And Discrimination In Philadelphia In The 1930'S, Amy E. Hillier Apr 2008

Who Received Loans? Home Owners' Loan Corporation Lending And Discrimination In Philadelphia In The 1930'S, Amy E. Hillier

Amy Hillier

The lending record of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) has received little attention compared with HOLC’s residential security maps. Specifically, the extent to which HOLC practiced racial and ethnic discrimination in the process of making and servicing more than a million loans to homeowners during the Depression has not been carefully examined. Using primary sources including HOLC publications, newspaper articles, 1930 census data, and mortgage records from Philadelphia, this research shows that HOLC did make loans to African Americans, Jews, and immigrants. Evidence suggests, however, that HOLC supported racial segregation in the process of reselling properties acquired through foreclosure.


Redlining And The Homeowners' Loan Corporation, Amy E. Hillier Apr 2008

Redlining And The Homeowners' Loan Corporation, Amy E. Hillier

Amy Hillier

This article analyzes the impact of the residential security maps created by the Home Owners’Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s on residential mortgages in Philadelphia. Researchers have consistently argued that HOLC caused redlining and disinvestment in U.S. cities by sharing its color-coded maps. Geographic information systems and spatial statistical models were used to analyze address-level mortgage data from Philadelphia to determine if areas with worse grades actually had less access to residential mortgage credit as a result. Findings indicate that the grades on HOLC’s map do not explain differences in lending patterns with the exception of interest rates, which were …


Web Du Bois And The "Negro Problem": Thoughts On Violence In Philadelphia, Amy Hillier Jul 2007

Web Du Bois And The "Negro Problem": Thoughts On Violence In Philadelphia, Amy Hillier

Amy Hillier

This sermon, delivered at First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, might also be called "Why a white girl from New Hampshire is studying The Philadelphia Negro." This essay/sermon connects Du Bois's 1896 survey of Philadelphia to the violence currently plaguing Philadelphia.


Arcgis 9.3 Manual, Amy Hillier Jan 2007

Arcgis 9.3 Manual, Amy Hillier

Amy Hillier

No abstract provided.