New economic poles in the periphery of European metropolitan areas [PDF]
The dispersal of population, commerce and industry to the outer edges of cities is, in quantitative terms, the most important development in urban areas in west-ern industrial societies in the last half century.
Burdack, Joachim
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Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation [PDF]
, 2008 Examines graduation-rate patterns in the fifty most populous U.S. cities and surrounding metropolitan areas. Compares data by race/ethnicity, gender, and principal district, and highlights the urban-suburban gaps within the same metropolitan ...
Christopher B. Swanson
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What do we know about contemporary Russian suburbs?
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2015 The article analyzes the subject field of the so-called “suburban studies” in contemporary Russia. In the first part of the article, the author shows that, despite the obvious potential of the relevant empirical data, the analytical work of Russian ...
A S Breslavsky
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Reading levels of rural and urban third graders lag behind their suburban peers [PDF]
, 2011 This brief examines the complex interplay of family, school, and place factors in the reading achievement levels of third grade students. Third grade reading achievement is critical to later academic and occupational success.
Graham, Suzanne E., Teague, Christine
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Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
Southern Spaces, 2020 Brian Riedel explores the role of cruising in queer territorialization and place claiming in Houston, Texas, in the twentieth century. Juxtaposing digital maps of queer businesses with an archive of cruising narratives, Riedel shows that while mapping ...
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The Persistence of Segregation in Buffalo, New York [PDF]
, 2006 Debates about the causes of segregation continue to consider the role that own-race preferences have in understanding the persistence of racial residential segregation in American cities.
Trudeau, Daniel
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The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Southern Spaces, 2012 In this presentation from February 15, 2012 at Emory University, Darren E. Grem examines the connections between evangelicalism and capitalism at the Chick-Fil-A chain of restaurants.
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Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net [PDF]
, 2009 Examines trends in the number of suburban poor, their access to health care, and efforts to improve safety-net services in the suburbs of five cities.
Johanna R. Lauer +2 more
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Indonesian Journal of Contemporary Multidisciplinary ResearchThis study aims to compare bullying cases at SMPN 1 Giri and SMPN 1 Licin in Banyuwangi Regency with a focus on the type, frequency, and impact experienced by students. The method used is a qualitative approach with a case study design, which involves in-depth interviews, observation, and document analysis. The results showed significant differences in
null Sukidin, Eko Giyantoro
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Support for Integrated Ecosystem Assessments of NOAA’s National Estuarine Research Reserves System (NERRS), Volume I: The Impacts of Coastal Development on the Ecology and Human Well-being of Tidal Creek Ecosystems of the US Southeast [PDF]
, 2008 A study was conducted, in association with the Sapelo Island and North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs), to evaluate the impacts of coastal development on sentinel habitats (e.g., tidal creek ecosystems), including potential impacts ...
Bergquist, D. +13 more
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