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Suburbanization and the Automobile [PDF]
During the period 1910 to 1970, an increasing fraction of the urban population in the US chose to live on the outskirts of central cities. This was also a time when a major innovation in transportation technology, the automobile, was introduced and ...
Karen A. Kopecky, Richard M. H. Suen
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Supporting New Faculty at Community Colleges Through Mentoring Circles
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although community colleges work to support faculty at all stages, it is especially important for colleges to support new faculty, who may be both new to the institution and new to teaching. Many colleges rely on dyad mentoring models where new faculty mentees are assigned one mentor, often a senior faculty member in the department.
Susan Altman +2 more
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Population Change as an Aspect of Suburbanization of Major Cities in Poland
Real Estate Management and ValuationCities function in people’s minds as reservoirs of opportunities and possibilities. For many people, living in a city seems an attractive and logical life choice compared to areas perceived as provincial.
Gnat Sebastian
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Dynamics of urban sprawl [PDF]
, 1999 This paper introduces a framework for understanding the dynamics of urban growth,particularly the continuing problem of urban sprawl. The models we present are based on transitions from vacant land to established development.
Batty, M, Sun, Z, Xie, Y
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New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) play a critical role in Indigenous nation‐building and postsecondary access, yet faculty development within these institutions remains chronically under‐resourced and inconsistently supported. This critical literature review examines faculty development across TCUs that function primarily within the ...
Karen Colbert +3 more
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The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social SciencesThe recent expansion in Black suburbanization is the most substantial shift in Black American residential patterns since the Great Migration. It has left Blacks more sorted between urban and suburban neighborhoods across metropolitan areas.
Reuel Rogers
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Daily commuting – similarities and differences between Serbia and Slovenia
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2010 As one form of population mobility, daily commuting represents very complex phenomenon of the spatial separation of the place of work and the place of residence of the part of employed population.
Vesna Lukić, Branka Tošić
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Counselor Education and Supervision, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Group work is a critical tool for school counselors. In this Consensual Qualitative Research, we used semistructured interviews with 13 school counseling site supervisors to explore influences on their group work supervision. We found supervisors were informed by historical backgrounds, school contexts, approaches to group work, and approaches
Lauren Moss +4 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the framework of sustainable development and environmental policy, environmental certification is regarded as a mechanism through which road passenger transport companies (RPTCs) could mitigate their adverse environmental impacts and attain competitive advantages that may enhance their financial performance.
Jose Antonio Cavero‐Rubio +1 more
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Typology of Suburban Communities in Poland
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2011 The paper presents an attempt to classify new and existing suburban communities in Poland based on spatial patterns and comparisons with suburbs in the United States. Fifteen types of Polish suburban communities are identified in the paper.
Grzegorz Zębik
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