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Evacuation and the Cohesion of Urban Groups
American Journal of Sociology, 1952Data on the evacuation experiences of World War II reveal the strength of cohesion in certain urban groups, especially the family. Separation of evacuable persons from economically essential personnel meets with great resistance. As long as the home is not destroyed, the family prefers to remain intact and in the city.
Eleanor H. Bernert, Fred C. Ikle
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Urbanization and vulnerable urban groups in Gaborone/Botswana
GeoJournal, 1994This article examines two factors which are of major importance for urban poverty groups in Botswana: the costs the urban poor have to pay for housing, and the role assets like cattle and land play as safety elements in the urban livelihood system.
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A meta-model of group for urban mobility modeling
Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Active Media Technology, 2005. (AMT 2005)., 2005Mobility is a concept which is studied in many research areas as astronomy, sociology, physics, and so on. Urban mobility study aims at looking and designing human displacements in an urban environment. In the literature, two main kinds of mobility are emergent: macroscopic displacements and microscopic movements.
Nicolas Marilleau +3 more
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Occlusion among a group of Tanzanian urban schoolchildren
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1988Abstract Occlusion and its variations were studied in a group of primary schoolchildren (n= 642, age 11–18 yr) in Dar es Salaam. Most children (96%) had Angle's Class I occlusion. Distal and mesial bite were rare in the sample, representing 3% and 1%, respectively.
H, Kerosuo +4 more
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Urban Brands and Tsg Capital Group, Llc
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006This case is designed to illustrate the methods private-equity investors use in assessing the value of market opportunities--in this instance, a plus-size clothing retailer targeted to African-American and Hispanic women. The case addresses several issues, including niche marketing, urban development, and the challenge of evaluating market potential ...
Gregory B. Fairchild, Joe Toomer
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2010
AbstractThis article explores the changing nature of urban interest group politics and contrasts trends and developments at the urban level with what is known about lobbies in Washington. It also examines the barriers to entry for interest group politics and finds strikingly low barriers at the local level.
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AbstractThis article explores the changing nature of urban interest group politics and contrasts trends and developments at the urban level with what is known about lobbies in Washington. It also examines the barriers to entry for interest group politics and finds strikingly low barriers at the local level.
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Ethnic Groups in Urban Education
International Social Work, 1974The concept of urban education is seen as education conducted under certain conditions and in a particular environment—for example, in inner city areas where immigrant groups have settled. Greek children in State schools in the inner city of Sydney serve as an example. It is suggested that for the local Australian pupils, and for those for whom English
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Group Disorders in Urban Schools
Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1978This paper formulates and tests a causal model of racial violence in the public schools using data from a sample of 119 American cities. The results tend to support three conclu sions regarding the outbreak of school disorders during the latter 1960s.
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Urban History, 1974
This was the tenth anniversary meeting of the Urban History Group though only the sixth occasion on which there had been a formal programme of papers. So many came – over 160 – that we felt for the first time the loss of the old intimate, bantering style of discussion, and slipped instead into more formal speeches pitched for the most part on a rather ...
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This was the tenth anniversary meeting of the Urban History Group though only the sixth occasion on which there had been a formal programme of papers. So many came – over 160 – that we felt for the first time the loss of the old intimate, bantering style of discussion, and slipped instead into more formal speeches pitched for the most part on a rather ...
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Organization and Management Practices of Urban Terrorist Groups
Terrorism, 1978A terrorist organization, existing for a specific purpose and mission, is a social unit (human grouping), deliberately constructed, which manages to achieve rational cooperation as it pursues specific goals. Consequently, ideological commitment by members of a terrorist group to the goals of their organization is necessary for organizational survival ...
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