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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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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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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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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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A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Using murder mysteries to address what she saw as destructive, rather than progressive, forces coming from the city into the countryside of north Fulton County, Georgia, journalist and fiction writer Celestine Sibley (1914–1999) attempted to present the ...
Margaret T. McGehee
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Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
Few metropolitan areas better represent recent national demographic trends and the challenges of neighborhood- and school-based segregation than the Atlanta metro region.
Karen Pooley
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Building Stronger Suburbs: Adaptability and Resilience Best Practices From Suburban Houston

open access: yes, 2016
This report highlights best practices for creating resilient and adaptable development in diverse suburban communities, looking at several case studies around the Houston area.
Shelton, Kyle
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Optimizing Sustainable Suburban Expansion with Autonomous Mobility through a Parametric Design Framework

open access: yes, 2023
Today, suburban areas are home to an ever-increasing majority of the global population. Models indicate that the next generation of US metropolitan growth will rapidly continue outside of urban cores, where car-based development patterns have served as ...
Chenhao Zhu   +9 more
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