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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Decision Models For Foreclosed Housing Acquisition And Redevelopment: A University Of Massachusetts Multi-Campus Collaborative Project - Processes And Findings To Date, Michael P. Johnson Jr., Jeffrey Keisler, Senay Solak, David Turcotte, Rachel B. Drew, Armagan Bayram, Emily Vidrine
Decision Models For Foreclosed Housing Acquisition And Redevelopment: A University Of Massachusetts Multi-Campus Collaborative Project - Processes And Findings To Date, Michael P. Johnson Jr., Jeffrey Keisler, Senay Solak, David Turcotte, Rachel B. Drew, Armagan Bayram, Emily Vidrine
Jeffrey Keisler
The recent housing foreclosure crisis has had devastating impacts on individuals, communities, organizations and government. In response, several community development corporations (CDCs) have sought new ways to assist neighborhoods suffering from the myriad effects of high foreclosures, including neighborhood instability, increased vandalism and crime, lower property values, and economic disinvestment. This research project focuses on activities of community-based organizations that acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties to support neighborhood stabilization and revitalization. However, the costs of pursuing this strategy far exceed the resources available to typical CDCs. Thus, our project seeks to solve the following decision problem: What subset of a …
Knowledge And Cooperation For Regional Development: The Effect Of Provincial And Federal Policy Initiatives In Canada And Australia, Samuel Garrett-Jones
Knowledge And Cooperation For Regional Development: The Effect Of Provincial And Federal Policy Initiatives In Canada And Australia, Samuel Garrett-Jones
Samuel Garrett-Jones
This paper examines how federal systems of government in Canada and Australia deal with the challenges of promoting regional innovation and knowledge-based industries. It focuses on selected cases of federal and regional (provincial or municipally based)policy initiatives and structures that support cross-sector collaboration between ‘knowledge institutions’(such as universities) and locally based industries. The study reveals both anticipated commonalities in and unexpected differences between the Canadian and Australian innovation environments and policy approaches. Federalism, resource-based economies and sparse population have led to similar concerns and solutions. However, building local innovation systems and networks is a question of building on social capital …
Understanding, And Developing, Audience Engagement With Dctv, Eddie Brennan
Understanding, And Developing, Audience Engagement With Dctv, Eddie Brennan
Other
This research explores community members’ perceptions of Dublin Community Television (DCTV), its programming and its programme schedule.
Concentrated Poverty And Community Development: A Look At How Upstate South Carolina Municipalities Address Issues Of Distressed Neighborhoods, Anna Brown
All Theses
America is known to be a place where there are opportunities to move in and out of social and economic classes. What about people that live in an area of concentrated poverty? Typically, residents of a neighborhood where 20 to 40 percent of the population lives at or below poverty face extreme barriers to these opportunities for a better life. Historically, government at the local, state and federal level have attempted to solve or at least assist these issues of distressed neighborhoods, particularly through what is known as community development. By having more local knowledge, municipal governments have first hand …
Community Expectations Of College Attendance And Completion, Michael Wade Derden
Community Expectations Of College Attendance And Completion, Michael Wade Derden
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Communities relay expectations of behavior that influence residents' decision making processes. The study's purpose was to define and identify Social, cultural, and human capital variables relevant to understanding community expectations of postsecondary attainment. The study sought an operational model of community expectancy that would allow policymakers and higher education leaders to recognize the community-level factors affecting student outcomes and then to make appropriate policy adjustments to encourage better outcomes.
Creating An Environmental Placed Based Education At Norris Elementary, Ben Kittrell
Creating An Environmental Placed Based Education At Norris Elementary, Ben Kittrell
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
This study is focused on creating a place based education program. Place based education programs provide many benefits at the personal level with the students (PBEEC). The study was completed at Norris Elementary School where the students have access to the “Norris Forest” which is a planted forest with a walk way through the trees. Some of the trees are labeled for the students to identify and others are not. A graph of the unlabelled trees has been included for the students or the teachers to use.
This project incorporates activities that will engage the students in order to teach …
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Was Quoted In The New Orleans City Business Article “Data Processors Want Standard In Collecting Road Home Info.” Note: Content Is For Subscribers Only., Michelle Thompson
Michelle M. Thompson
No abstract provided.
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Was Quoted In The New Orleans City Business Article “Data Processors Want Standard In Collecting Road Home Info.” Note: Content Is For Subscribers Only., Michelle Thompson
Michelle M. Thompson
No abstract provided.
Satisfaction With Local Conditions And The Intention To Move, Richard N. Engstrom, Nathan Dunkel
Satisfaction With Local Conditions And The Intention To Move, Richard N. Engstrom, Nathan Dunkel
Faculty and Research Publications
The recent economic downturn has presented many challenges to local communities and policy- makers. Foreclosed properties, job losses, and other challenges that local residents face can threaten the economic viability of local communities. Another consequence of the economic downturn is decreased government budgets, forcing policymakers to make decisions about how to allocate scarce resources effectively. When making decisions about local and regional policy, it would be useful to know how local characteristics contribute to the decisions residents make about whether to remain in a local community or to relocate. Exhibits 1 through 4 present maps created to investigate the relationship …
Inquiry, Innovation, & Impact: Report To The Community, Center For Social Development
Inquiry, Innovation, & Impact: Report To The Community, Center For Social Development
Center for Social Development Research
Inquiry, Innovation, & Impact: Report to the Community
Closing The Wealth Gap: Promoting Change By Working Together, Jennifer Heffern, Aja Riley
Closing The Wealth Gap: Promoting Change By Working Together, Jennifer Heffern, Aja Riley
Center for Social Development Research
Closing the Wealth Gap: Promoting Change by Working Together
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Appeared Live On Wwl-Tv’S Eyewitness Morning News To Discuss The New Website Whodata.Org., Michelle Thompson
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Appeared Live On Wwl-Tv’S Eyewitness Morning News To Discuss The New Website Whodata.Org., Michelle Thompson
Michelle M. Thompson
No abstract provided.
Whodata.Org, The Website Project Of The Uno Planning And Urban Studies Department, Was Featured In The Times-Picayune Article “New Orleans Blight Websites Get Varied Responses From City Hall.”, Michelle Thompson
Michelle M. Thompson
No abstract provided.
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Was Quoted In The Times-Picayune Story “Website Tracks Neighborhood Recovery In N.O.”, Michelle Thompson
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Was Quoted In The Times-Picayune Story “Website Tracks Neighborhood Recovery In N.O.”, Michelle Thompson
Michelle M. Thompson
No abstract provided.
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Was Interviewed Live On The Fox 8 Morning News To Discuss The Launch Of The Website Whodata.Org., Michelle Thompson
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Was Interviewed Live On The Fox 8 Morning News To Discuss The Launch Of The Website Whodata.Org., Michelle Thompson
Michelle M. Thompson
No abstract provided.
Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor Of Planning And Urban Studies, Was Quoted In The The Times-Picayune Article “Whodata.Org Allows New Orleans Residents To Track Recovery In Their Neighborhoods”, Michelle Thompson
Michelle M. Thompson
No abstract provided.
Creating A Community Food System: The Intervale Center (Http://Www.Intervale.Org), Elizabeth A. Berman
Creating A Community Food System: The Intervale Center (Http://Www.Intervale.Org), Elizabeth A. Berman
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Urban League Of Central Carolinas – Civil Rights Organizations In A New Era: An Action Research Study Of One Organization’S Pursuit Of New Strategies, Harry L. Alston
Urban League Of Central Carolinas – Civil Rights Organizations In A New Era: An Action Research Study Of One Organization’S Pursuit Of New Strategies, Harry L. Alston
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
What leadership approaches and operational strategies should traditional civil rights organizations, like the Urban League, undertake to in this post-civil rights era? Specifically at the local level, what expectations must the Urban League of Central Carolinas satisfy to reassert its leadership in Charlotte? In recent years, an increasing array of social enterprises across different sectors has emerged to address failures in civil society. Civil rights organizations have long served a niche in the battle for an equitable society. However, the role of civil rights organizations in community revitalization has been diffuse and subject to fundraising constraints. I undertook this action …
The Illusion Of Capitalism In Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study Of The Gambia, Colin C. Williams
The Illusion Of Capitalism In Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study Of The Gambia, Colin C. Williams
Colin C Williams
Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate critically the meta-narrative that there is no alternative to capitalism. Building upon an emerging body of post-structuralist thought that has begun deconstructing this discourse in relation to western economies and post-Soviet societies, this paper further extends this critique to Sub-Saharan Africa by investigating the degree to which people in the Gambia rely on the capitalist market economy for their livelihood. Reporting the results of 80 household face-to-face interviews (involving over 500 people), the finding is that only a small minority of households in contemporary Gambian society rely on the formal market economy alone …
Rethinking The Nature Of Community Economies: Some Lessons From Post-Soviet Ukraine, Colin C. Williams
Rethinking The Nature Of Community Economies: Some Lessons From Post-Soviet Ukraine, Colin C. Williams
Colin C Williams
This paper contributes to a small but growing body of thought that has questioned the hegemony of capitalism by revealing the persistence of multifarious economic practices in everyday community economies. To further advance this school of thought, first, a conceptual framework is developed to map the diverse economic practices used by communities and second, this is applied through a survey of 600 households in Ukraine. The outcome is to reveal that just as multifarious economic practices prevailed under state socialism, the same applies in societies in transition to capitalism, suggesting that there are alternative futures for community economies beyond market …