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Powerpoint- Setback Speech, Michael Lewyn
Powerpoint- Setback Speech, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Setback regulations often require that all buildings be a certain amount of feet (usually about 25-50 feet from the street). As a result of these zoning rules, all destinations outside the most urban areas have to place either parking or useless green spaces between the street and a store, office building or residence.
I argue that these regulations make walking more difficult, for four reasons. First, pedestrians have to waste time walking through these empty spaces. Second, walking through a sea of parking is simply no fun. Pedestrians tend to enjoy shade and a sense of enclosure, so they …
Free & Low-Cost Legal Research Options - Slides, Lee A. Ryan
Free & Low-Cost Legal Research Options - Slides, Lee A. Ryan
Lee A. Ryan
These slides accompany the presentation on free and low-cost research options created for a guest presentation in a first-year Legal Research, Writing & Analysis class. These slides are meant to be used with the outline of the presentation, which is also available on this site.
Researching Foreign Law: A Presentation For Usf's Comparative Law Class, Spring 2017, Lee A. Ryan
Researching Foreign Law: A Presentation For Usf's Comparative Law Class, Spring 2017, Lee A. Ryan
Lee A. Ryan
These slides illustrate a presentation on getting started with researching foreign legal systems and foreign law. The presentation was for the Spring semester Comparative Law class at the University of San Francisco School of Law. The Zief Law Library's guide on "Researching Foreign Legal Systems" (http://legalresearch.usfca.edu/ForeignLegalSystems) accompanies this presentation.
Intersectionality And Development: Exploring Equity In All Dimensions, Renee Hatcher
Intersectionality And Development: Exploring Equity In All Dimensions, Renee Hatcher
Renee Hatcher
Equity is a word that gets thrown around often in economic development. Terms such as equitable development, regional equity, and equitable growth all too often become little more than rhetorical intent concerning development initiatives, as opposed to a principle of practice. Historically, women, the disabled, indigenous peoples, Blacks, and other people of color have meaningfully been left out of the development process. All the while, normative pro-growth economic development strategies have affected minority and marginalized communities differently, largely producing inequitable outcomes that shape the experiences and hardships of those outside of the towers of power. These burdens and hardships range …