Fragile Neighborhoods

Author : Seth D. Kaplan
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316521703

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Fragile Neighborhoods by Seth D. Kaplan Pdf

An “essential and engaging ” (Richard Florida) exploration of social decline in America: its true causes and the practical steps each of us can take to combat it, starting with the places we call home. The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the quality of schools our kids go to, our sense of security and belonging, and even how long we live. Yet too many of us live in neighborhoods plagued by rising crime, school violence, family disintegration, addiction, alienation, and despair. Even the wealthiest neighborhoods are not immune; while poverty exacerbates these challenges, they exist in zip codes rich and poor, rural and urban, and everything in between. In Fragile Neighborhoods, fragile states expert Seth D. Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time. By revitalizing our local institutions—and the social ties that knit them together—we can all turn our neighborhoods into places where people and families can thrive. Readers will meet the innovative individuals and organizations pioneering new approaches to everything from youth mentoring to affordable housing: people like Dreama, a former lawyer whose organization works with local leaders and educators in rural Appalachia to equip young people with the social support they need to succeed in school; and Chris, whose Detroit-based non-profit turns vacant school buildings into community resource hubs. Along the way, Kaplan offers a set of practical lessons to inspire similar work, reminding us that when change is hyperlocal, everyone has the opportunity to contribute.

Author : Fariborz Haghighat,Jong-Jin Kim
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848260610

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Sustainable Built Environment - Volume II by Fariborz Haghighat,Jong-Jin Kim Pdf

Sustainable Built Environment is a component of Encyclopedia of Technology, Information, and Systems Management Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Environmental conservation and technological innovation are two principal forces that drive the building industry toward the future. Technological innovation offers many opportunities to make buildings more dynamic and comfortable, and occupants more comfortable and productive. The necessity of environmental conservation, on the other hand, compels all types of developments and human activities to be environmentally responsive. The content of the Theme on Sustainable Built Environment is organized with state-of-the-art presentations covering several topics: Urban Design ; Emerging Issues in Building Design; Environment, Energy and Health in Housing Design; Culture, Management Strategies, and Policy Issues in the Sustainable Built Environment; Using Technology to Improve the Quality of City Life; Urban and Regional Transportation, which are then expanded into multiple subtopics, each as a chapter. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Benjamin Looker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226290317

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A Nation of Neighborhoods by Benjamin Looker Pdf

Benjamin Looker investigates the cultural, social, and economic complexities of the idea of “neighborhood” in postwar America. In the face of urban decline, competing visions of the city neighborhood's significance and purpose became proxies for broader debates over the meaning and limits of American democracy. Looker examines radically different neighborhood visions—by urban artists, critics, writers, and activists—to show how sociological debates over what neighborhood values resonated in art, political discourse, and popular culture. The neighborhood-—both the epitome of urban life and, in its insularity, an escape from it—was where twentieth-century urban Americans worked out solutions to tensions between atomization or overcrowding, harsh segregation or stifling statism, ethnic assimilation or cultural fragmentation.

Author : Isabelle Anguelovski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262026925

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Neighborhood as Refuge by Isabelle Anguelovski Pdf

An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods. Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to pollution, contamination, and toxic sites. In Neighborhood as Refuge, Isabelle Anguelovski takes a broader view of environmental justice, examining wide-ranging comprehensive efforts at neighborhood environmental revitalization that include parks, urban agriculture, fresh food markets, playgrounds, housing, and waste management. She investigates and compares three minority, low-income neighborhoods that organized to improve environmental quality and livability: Casc Antic, in Barcelona; Dudley, in the Roxbury section of Boston; and Cayo Hueso, in Havana. Despite the differing histories and political contexts of these three communities, Anguelovski finds similar patterns of activism. She shows that behind successful revitalization efforts is what she calls “bottom to bottom” networking, powered by broad coalitions of residents, community organizations, architects, artists, funders, political leaders, and at times environmental advocacy groups. Anguelovski also describes how, over time, environmental projects provide psychological benefits, serving as a way to heal a marginalized and environmentally traumatized urban neighborhood. They encourage a sense of rootedness and of attachment to place, creating safe havens that offer residents a space for recovery. They also help to bolster residents' ability to deal with the negative dynamics of discrimination and provide spaces for broader political struggles including gentrification. Drawing on the cases of Barcelona, Boston, and Havana, Anguelovski presents a new holistic framework for understanding environmental justice action in cities, with the right to a healthy community environment at its core.

Author : George Sternlieb,James W. Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Abandonment of property
ISBN : UOM:39015084369886

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Analysis of Neighborhood Decline in Urban Areas by George Sternlieb,James W. Hughes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034587261

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South Corridor Light Rail Project, Charlotte-Mecklenburg County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terry L. Turnipseed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317163367

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Community, Home, and Identity by Terry L. Turnipseed Pdf

Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time. Legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and economists, among others, have studied the impacts of home and community on one's identity and how one's identity is manifested in one's home and in one's community. This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers about the connections between community, home and identity. Several chapters address how the law and lawyers contribute (or detract) from the creation and maintenance of community and, in some cases, the conscious destruction of communities. Others examine the protection of individual and group identities through rules related to property title and use of such things as Home and 'identity property'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Minorities
ISBN : UCR:31210024865659

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Conference on the Educational and Occupational Needs of White Ethnic Women, October 10-13, 1978 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aimad El Ouardani,Miguel C. Vilombo,Philippe A. W. Franzkowiak
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781491896860

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World Insecurity by Aimad El Ouardani,Miguel C. Vilombo,Philippe A. W. Franzkowiak Pdf

The world is increasingly becoming interdependent and this interdependency has raised the number of unmistakable vulnerabilities, threats and risks. The institutions of governance in weak and failing states are driving forces that often lead to environmental damage, mismanagement of natural resources, to the expansion of international terrorism, inter-religious violence, transnational organized crime, and to piracy activities that affect energy security in the Gulf of Guinea and Aden. All this creates open security spaces whose impacts are national, sub-regional, regional, and threatens the international security order. The UN and other intergovernmental bodies are often drawn in to mitigate conflicts and political crisis, and to provide emergency humanitarian responses, at very high costs. The cost of post-conflict societys recovery processes such as rebuilding institutions of governance is enormous due to financial and human resources commitment efforts. Therefore to resolve insecurity problems, a firefighter strategy is not good enough unless efforts are redirected towards information, management and analysis of global trends to enable a more adequate response to the crisis. The main issue is therefore to provide now and for future generations a response that has to be effective and adequate to both manmade and natural crisis.

Author : Roberta Brandes Gratz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0471144258

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The Living City by Roberta Brandes Gratz Pdf

THE LIVING CITY "An intelligent analysis. Sensible, undoctrinaire, evengood-humored. An appealing mixture of passion and clinicaldispassion." -Washington Post Book World "The best antidote I've read to the doom-and-gloom propheciesconcerning the future of urban America." -Bill Moyers "This is fresh and fascinating material; it is essential forunderstanding not only how to avoid repeating terrible mistakes ofthe past, but also how to recover from them." -Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great AmericanCities From coast to coast across America there are countless urbansuccess stories about rejuvenated neighborhoods and resurgentbusiness districts. Roberta Brandes Gratz defines the phenomenon as"urban husbandry"-the care, management, and preservation of thebuilt environment nurtured by genuine participatory planningefforts of government, urban planners, and average citizens.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D01955579E

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Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2001 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Housing
ISBN : PURD:32754062396423

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Housing in the Seventies by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015056876967

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Housing in the Seventies by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development Pdf

Author : Leslie Hossfeld,E. Brooke Kelly,Julia Waity
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826504135

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Food and Poverty by Leslie Hossfeld,E. Brooke Kelly,Julia Waity Pdf

Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.

Author : Douglas Massey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674251533

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American Apartheid by Douglas Massey Pdf

This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of black segregation is so intense and occurs in so many dimensions simultaneously that it amounts to “hypersegregation.” Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton demonstrate that this systematic segregation of African Americans leads inexorably to the creation of underclass communities during periods of economic downturn. Under conditions of extreme segregation, any increase in the overall rate of black poverty yields a marked increase in the geographic concentration of indigence and the deterioration of social and economic conditions in black communities. As ghetto residents adapt to this increasingly harsh environment under a climate of racial isolation, they evolve attitudes, behaviors, and practices that further marginalize their neighborhoods and undermine their chances of success in mainstream American society. This book is a sober challenge to those who argue that race is of declining significance in the United States today.