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Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2008
This essay explores Ponce de Leon Park, a popular turn-of-the-last-century amusement park two miles east of Atlanta, through postcards, photographs, video, and historical analysis.
Sarah Toton
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Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 253:Spatial Interactions in Hedonic Pricing Models: The Urban Housing Market of Aveiro, Portugal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Spatial heterogeneity, spatial dependence and spatial scale constitute key features of spatial analysis of housing markets. However, the common practice of modelling spatial dependence as being generated by spatial interactions through a known spatial ...
Anselmo de Castro, Eduardo   +2 more
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Narrowing urban–suburban rural disparities in physical growth among children in China: findings from the 5th national survey in 2015

open access: yesAnnals of Human Biology, 2017
Background: Previous studies have reported a narrowing tendency in urban–suburban rural differences for height, but almost no tendency of narrowing for weight in Chinese children between 1975–2005.
Xinnan Zong   +3 more
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A City Divided

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Through the case of Jackson Hill, LeAnn Lands describes the turn toward residential segregation in early twentieth-century Atlanta.
LeeAnn Lands
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African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2004
The emergence of the African American community in Atlanta during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries reveals the constraints and opportunities that characterized the development of the leading city of the New South.
Carole Merritt
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African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2004
Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne Herndon achieved acclaim in education, drama, and architecture in turn-of-the-century Atlanta.
Carole Merritt
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History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
Lynnell L. Thomas reviews Richard Campanella's Bourbon Street: A History (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2014).
Lynnell L. Thomas
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The Pathway Study: Commonalities Across New Food Bank Users in Rural, Suburban and Urban Areas [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Public Health, 2020
Abstract Background Few studies investigate long-term effects of food donation programs on food insecurity, diet, social integration or health. We describe household food insecurity (HFI), health, social integration and sociodemographic characteristics of 1003 new food banks users in rural, suburban ...
F Roncarolo   +6 more
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Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
Rhonda Y. Williams reviews Edward G. Goetz's New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013).
Rhonda Y. Williams
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Colouring inside what lines?: interference of the urban growth boundary and the political-administrative border of Brussels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper discusses the relationship between the political-administrative border and the urban growth boundary around Brussels, the Belgian capital. Our hypothesis is that the interests of the various regions and language groups in Belgium interfere ...
Allaert, Georges   +2 more
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