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Preserving Home And Independence: The Economic Sustainability Of Pennsylvania's Real Estate Tax System For Aging In Place, Jongwoong Kim
Preserving Home And Independence: The Economic Sustainability Of Pennsylvania's Real Estate Tax System For Aging In Place, Jongwoong Kim
Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations
WCU Sustainability Research and Practice Seminar, "Preserving Home and Independence: The Economic Sustainability of Pennsylvania's Real Estate Tax System for Aging in Place", by Jongwoong Kim, 2023 Kathy A. Possinger Housing Policy Fellow, PHFA, Department of Geography and Planning, West Chester University
Philadelphia Before I-95: Uncovering The Lost Wealth And Neighborhoods Destroyed By The Delaware Expressway, Don Edmonds
Philadelphia Before I-95: Uncovering The Lost Wealth And Neighborhoods Destroyed By The Delaware Expressway, Don Edmonds
West Chester University Master’s Theses
This case study investigates the demolished structures and lost wealth due to the construction of the Delaware Expressway (I-95) along Philadelphia’s Center City waterfront. The history of the Delaware Expressway is embedded in a larger freeway-building era in the United States that led to the destruction of urban neighborhoods throughout the country. Yet the neighborhoods that once occupied these corridors have fallen out of the collective memory, and there exists a lack of research analyzing the original conditions of these areas before freeways permanently changed them. This thesis seeks to understand the historical context of freeways in the United States …