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Sa2020 San Antonio Opportunity Dividend, Ziona Austrian, Merissa Piazza, Nikki Glazer

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CEOs for Cities created the city dividend concept to catalyze collaborative economic progress in cities and regions. A city dividend is the economic benefit resulting from investing resources to successfully achieve a measurable, actionable goal toward your city’s and metro region’s economic progress. The objective of city dividends is to provide quantitative estimates of the economic benefits that metropolitan regions and cities could achieve by improving their performance on specific priority issues.

This report explores the Opportunity Dividend. The Opportunity Dividend examines individuals in poverty and the public money spent on combating poverty. Detailed methodology on how the Opportunity Dividend …

Hidden Agenda? Cultural Policy In Hong Kong’S Urban Redevelopment, Tobias Zuser

Lingnan Theses

For many years industrial buildings in Hong Kong have formed some of the city’s most vibrant cultural clusters by providing local artists with low-cost space to pursue their creative work. However, recent efforts by the government also targeted these areas for commercial revitalization. By 2020 the industrial part of Kwun Tong, a densely populated district in Kowloon East, will not only have been transformed into the city’s second Central Business District, but also seen the majority of the current cultural workers leaving due to the rapid valorisation of land. Nevertheless, these ongoing struggles over spatial power have also opened up …

Project Close At Hand: Addressing Homelessness Through Community Engagement, Kristin Wibben

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

This project examines the power of college students to positively sensitize their host community’s residents to the problem of homelessness and to implement “Project Close at Hand”, a project that focuses on breaking down the stereotypes associated with homelessness and collecting donations sufficient to save a local men’s homeless shelter from closing.

Comparative Analysis Of Urban Design And Criminal Behavior: A Study Of New Urbanism And Defensible Space As They Pertain To Crime, Afton Enger

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

This research evaluates the correlation between urban design and criminal behavior. Environmental designs observed are New Urbanism, also known as Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND) and Neo-Traditional Neighborhood Design; and Defensible Space, otherwise known as Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) or Secure by Design (SBD). This study analyzes and compares crime rates in Minnesota cities and neighborhoods which have characteristics of one of these urban designs or a 3rd, Vernacular Design. Similar research has been done in a 2004 thesis by Marie E. Hafey titled New Urbanism Versus Defensible Space: Design Philosophies Related to Neighborhood Satisfaction and Perceived Crime, which …

Responding To Foreclosures In Cuyahoga County: 2013 Evaluation Report, Kathryn Hexter, Molly Schnoke

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In 2005, Cuyahoga County became one of the first places in the nation to respond to the rapid increase in the number of residential foreclosure filings. In response to concerns raised by suburban mayors, the County developed a comprehensive foreclosure prevention initiative. The County’s response was multi-faceted and included modifications to the judicial foreclosure process to make foreclosures faster and fairer, greater coordination across County agencies involved in foreclosures such as the sheriff, the prosecutor, the treasurer and the recorder. A key facet of the response was the creation of the Cuyahoga County Foreclosure Prevention Program (CCFPP) which involves face …

Racial Disparities In Access To Community Water Supply Service In Wake County, North Carolina, Jacqueline Macdonald Gibson, Nicholas Defelice, Daniel Sebastian, Hannah Leker

Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research

Anecdotal evidence suggests that historically African American communities on the fringes of cities and towns in North Carolina have been systematically denied access to municipal drinking water service. This paper presents the first statistical analysis of the role of race in determining water access in these fringe areas, known as extraterritorial jurisdictions. Using publicly available property tax data, we quantified the percentage of residences with municipal water service in each census block in Wake County (the second-largest by population in North Carolina). Using the resulting water service maps plus 2010 U.S. Census data, we employed a logistic regression to assess …

Lessons From The Cleveland Integration Initiative, Walter Wright, Kathryn Hexter, Candi Clouse

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Does Government Coproduction Shape Citizen Satisfaction With Local Governments?, Benjamin Y. Clark, Maria Rokakis

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End Of Academic Freedom, William M. Bowen

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Demand For Green Buildings: Office Tenants’ Willingness To Pay For Green Features, Robert A. Simons, Eunkyu Lee, Spenser Robinson, Andrew Kern

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The Transformational Effects Of Public-Private Partnerships In Cleveland: An Inside View Of Good Government Under Mayors Voinovich And Jackson, Vera D. Vogelsang-Coombs, William Denihan, Melanie Baur

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Loose Change And Governance: Cleveland’S Evergreen Worker Owned Cooperative Initiative, Nicholas C. Zingale, Aritree Samanta, Deborah Riemann, Esther West

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Responding To Climate Change: Is The Takings Clause An Obstacle?, Alan C. Weinstein

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Personal Loyalty, Thick-Thin Morality, And The Crisis Of Conscience: The Case Of Lincoln At Gettysburg-Abstract, Vera D. Vogelsang-Coombs

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John Stuart Mill’S Views On Liberty, Contestation, And Individuality And Their Implications For Public Administration, Michael W. Spicer

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Preserving Legacy City Neighborhoods: The Role Of Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits, Stephanie R. Ryberg-Webster, Kelly Kinahan

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The Racially And Socioeconomically Disparate Impact Of Relocating The Hamilton County Board Of Elections, Mark Salling

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Arts And Economic Development, Iryna Lendel, Merissa Piazza

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Emergence And Persistence Of A Watershed Governance Network, Wendy Kellogg

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The Right Scale: Planning For Resilience In Northeast Ohio, Sanda Kaufman, Kathryn Hexter

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Risk Management Or Risky Management? Preparing Nonprofit Leaders For Risk And Liability, Patricia Groble

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Market Studies For Main Street Redevelopment In Small Communities, Kirby Date

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Modeling Image: The Concepts Of Place Image, Candi Clouse

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Does Local Government Coproduction Lead To Budget Adjustments? An Investigation Of Boston & San Francisco, Benjamin Y. Clark, Tatyana Guzman

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Preparedness For Epidemic Disease Or Bioterrorism: Minimum Cost Planning For The Location And Staffing Of Urban Point-Of-Dispensing Centers, William M. Bowen, Jen-Yi Chen, Oya Tukel

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The Gap Between Science And Policy: Assessing The Use Of Nonmarket Valuation In Estuarine Management, Judith T. Kildow Dr, Jing Guo

Working Papers

Estuaries, which are among the most productive natural systems on earth, provide an array of human welfare benefits if well managed. Non-market valuation (NMV) is considered a powerful tool, which can contribute to informed policies for estuarine management. More than 30 year of research valuing estuaries around the world does not appear to have had a major impact on estuarine management. Published examples of policy applications using estimates from these studies, are rare, leading to the question whether the effort and money spent on this research has been useful and worth the cost.

Despite raising public awareness of the importance …

Voinovich Archives Project Conference On Public Private Partnerships: Conference Reader, Stuart C. Mendel

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A City Club Report On Ip47 & 58: Liquor Privatization, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

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A City Club Report On Ip52: Religious Liberties, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

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A City Club Report On Ip10: Castle Doctrine, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

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