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Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
Southern 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
Southern 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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"Ordinary, the same as anywhere else": notes on the management of spoiled identity in 'marginal' middle class neighbourhoods [PDF]
, 2007 Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Particular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of ‘distinction’ and ...
Bauman, Z. +37 more
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Southern 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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The influence of urban form on car travel following residential relocation : a current and retrospective study in Scottish urban areas [PDF]
, 2014 Spatial planning and spatial policy continues to be used as a tool to bring about changes in travel behaviour. Policy suggests that by creating particular urban forms, demand for travel by car can be reduced.
Ferguson, Neil, Woods, Lee
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New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
Southern Spaces, 2009 Beth Tarasawa writes about the changing patterns of school segregation for Latino and African American students in Atlanta.
Beth Tarasawa
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn +3 more
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Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023 Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship, describes how inequality unfolds differently in suburban communities ...
R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy +3 more
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The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
Southern Spaces, 2009 Dorothy Moye explores the prevalence and significance of the X-code, a symbol used by search-and-rescue teams in 2005 to mark searched property in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.
Dorothy Moye
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Response Of The Dupi Tila Aquifer to intensive pumping in Dhaka, Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2003 This paper focuses on the water-quantity issues facing Dhaka because of the rapid exploitation of the Dupi Tila aquifer. Dhaka is one of the world’s largest groundwater-dependent cities, relying on water withdrawn from this underlying semiconfined sand ...
Kazi, Matin Ahmed +2 more
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