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The Arts Economy in 20 Cities: Where Does Atlanta Stand? [PDF]

, 2000
The tremendous growth that Atlanta has experienced over the past decade has catapulted the city into a major metropolitan hub. Along with this growth, many issues have gained significance with regards to plans for the city's future direction of growth ...
Arthur C. Brooks, Roland Kushner
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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

Daily Mobility of Workers in Slovenia

Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2004
The paper deals with the phenomenon of commuting to work in Slovenia and describes the basic patterns, causes, and consequences of the daily mobility of workers.
David Bole
doaj   +1 more source

Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

The Crescent District in Saigon South: A Showcase for Post-Modern Urban Development in Vietnam [PDF]

Pacific Geographies, 2010
Vietnam’s metropoles have witnessed two major inter-linked developments during the past decade: First, the widespread erection of comprehensively planned new urban areas in the urban periphery; second, the gradual emergence of an urban middle-class ...
Waibel, Michael
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

Sprawl and Urban Growth [PDF]

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form.
Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew E. Kahn
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Suburbanization in Multi-ethnic Area – Conflicts and Local Strategies

Modern Geográfia
The effects of suburbanization can be examined from several aspects, but beyond the individual decisions that initiated it, the real estate market aspects, or the transformation of land use, the effects on local communities and their reactions are rarely
Balizs, Dániel, Somogyi, Kitti
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Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system offers international insights into the causes of segregation owing to it being one of the most segregated in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, its long history of school ...
Michael G. Sciffer, Laura B. Perry, Andrew McConney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban and suburban lifestyles and residential preferences in a highly urbanized society

Belgeo, 2011
It is widely recognized that cities nowadays are confronted with (new) challenges like segregation and suburbanisation. This paper explores the idea that these processes are related with residential choices (or preferences) made by residents with ...
Ann Pisman, Georges Allaert, Piet Lombaerde   +2 more
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