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Evaluating Urban Parks Accessibility And Equity: A Case Study Of Hartford, Ct And New Haven, Ct, Natalie Roach, Mara Tu
Evaluating Urban Parks Accessibility And Equity: A Case Study Of Hartford, Ct And New Haven, Ct, Natalie Roach, Mara Tu
Honors Scholar Theses
Public parks provide cities with environmental benefits, positive health effects, recreational opportunities, community building, educational spaces, and public amenities. However, certain populations have been systematically denied their fair share of these benefits because of unjust practices in the creation and maintenance of urban parks. With a lens of environmental justice, the goal of this research was to assess park quality and accessibility of two Connecticut cities, Hartford and New Haven, by gathering publicly available information as well as using GIS tools.
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has an existing ParkScore rating system that evaluates the quality of a city’s …
The Killingly Mascot Case Study, Jordan Lumpkins
The Killingly Mascot Case Study, Jordan Lumpkins
School of Professional Studies
In the summer of 2019, in Killingly, Connecticut the local Board of Education voted to retire the "Redmen" mascot name it had used for nearly a century. This legislation was widely opposed and received extensive media coverage. Within a few months, the town experienced a massive political referendum where several local Board of Education members and Councilmen were replaced by single issue politicians promising to reinstate the "Redmen" name. Now holding a majority on the Board of Education, these Board members made Killingly the first school in U.S. history to reinstate a mascot after being deemed "derogatory."
It is the …
Economic Characteristics Of The Nursery-Greenhouse Sector In Connecticut, Wayne Gineo, Manda Rao
Economic Characteristics Of The Nursery-Greenhouse Sector In Connecticut, Wayne Gineo, Manda Rao
Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station
No abstract provided.
Estimating Impacts Of Industrial Development In Killingly, Connecticut, Daniel A. Lass, Joseph Diamond
Estimating Impacts Of Industrial Development In Killingly, Connecticut, Daniel A. Lass, Joseph Diamond
Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station
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Market And Operations Analysis Of Golf Courses In Connecticut, Marvin Kottke
Market And Operations Analysis Of Golf Courses In Connecticut, Marvin Kottke
Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station
No abstract provided.