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Full-Text Articles in Urban Studies and Planning
Revitalizing Distressed Older Suburbs, Kathryn W. Hexter, Edward W. Hill, Brian A. Mikelbank, Benjamin Y. Clark, Charles Post
Revitalizing Distressed Older Suburbs, Kathryn W. Hexter, Edward W. Hill, Brian A. Mikelbank, Benjamin Y. Clark, Charles Post
Benjamin Y. Clark
No abstract provided.
Judaism And Urbanism: Jewish Communities React To Suburbanization, Michael Lewyn
Judaism And Urbanism: Jewish Communities React To Suburbanization, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
This speech addresses both how Jews should react to suburbanization and how they in fact have reacted in a variety of metropolitan areas.
Re-Placing Sprawl: Mapping Place In An American Suburb, Ryan M. Cooper
Re-Placing Sprawl: Mapping Place In An American Suburb, Ryan M. Cooper
Theses and Dissertations--Geography
In the post-World War II era land development in the United States has largely been focused on the expansion away from urban centers and out into the surrounding suburbs. While the development of suburbs began with utopian ideals of spiritual wholeness, their actual manifestation on the American landscape has been subject to harsh critiques about their long-term economic and environmental feasibility, fostering of social alienation, and general placelessness. In this thesis I address the criticism of suburbs as placeless, asking ―What are the particular practices of place-making in North American suburbs?‖ Examining interviews, cognitive map surveys, participant observation, archival materials, …
Disinvestment And Suburban Decline, Robert Streetar
Disinvestment And Suburban Decline, Robert Streetar
School of Business Student Theses and Dissertations
Beginning in the mid-1970s, U.S. suburbs started to experience many of the same problems typically associated with earlier inner-city decline including accelerating income decline, increasing family poverty, falling housing prices, growing income polarization, escalating crime, and increasing racial and ethnic diversity.
Conventional wisdom often lays the blame for neighborhood decline on who moves in and who moves out. This is understandable, as neighborhood migration is easily observable. It is the hypothesis of this research, though, that the less visible disinvestment of capital from suburban neighborhoods is an initial cause of suburban decline that precedes and coincides with the more observable …
2013 Cnu Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2013 Cnu Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
2013 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2013 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn