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- Community development (1)
- Municipal government -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) (1)
- Public spaces -- Pacific Northwest (1)
- Social action -- Oregon -- Portland (1)
- Social action -- Washington -- Seattle (1)
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- Social movements -- Oregon -- Portland (1)
- Social movements -- Washington -- Seattle (1)
- Sustainable urban development -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) (1)
- Urban -- Environmental aspects -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) (1)
- Urban schools -- Pacific Northwest (1)
- Urbanization -- Environmental aspects -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) (1)
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Benchmarking Community Investments In Green Building And Green Buying Programs In Five U.S. Cities, Shanna Nicole Eller
Benchmarking Community Investments In Green Building And Green Buying Programs In Five U.S. Cities, Shanna Nicole Eller
Dissertations and Theses
This is a study of what can be learned from leading U.S. cities about their work on environmental sustainability program efforts and what that information suggests for other cities considering a move into the environmental sustainability arena. The study focuses on green building and buying programs.
This is an exploratory study aimed at determining if detailed information, recommended for pursuit by Portney (2003), is available regarding: (a) how individual city sustainability programs got started; (b) how they maintain or fail to maintain themselves; (c) what they have been able to achieve programmatically; and (d) how effectively they have accomplished environmental …
"Whose Streets? Our Streets!" Urban Social Movements And The Transformation Of Everyday Life In Pacific Northwest Cities, 1990-1999, Leanne Claire Serbulo
"Whose Streets? Our Streets!" Urban Social Movements And The Transformation Of Everyday Life In Pacific Northwest Cities, 1990-1999, Leanne Claire Serbulo
Dissertations and Theses
This project returns to the questions that were once at the center of the urban studies debate over social movements. What are urban social movements, and what impacts do they leave on the cities where they occur? Urban protests in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington are used as the foundation for exploring the following research questions: What urban social movements occurred in the Pacific Northwest during 1990s? What goals were these movements struggling for? What impacts did urban social movements have on daily life in Portland and Seattle?
While this project has continuity with earlier attempts to identify, describe, and …