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Urbanization and vulnerable urban groups in Gaborone/Botswana

GeoJournal, 1994
This 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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Urban History Group Meeting

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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Urban Brands and Tsg Capital Group, Llc

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
This 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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Urban Interest Groups

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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Group Disorders in Urban Schools

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1978
This 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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Ethnic Groups in Urban Education

International Social Work, 1974
The 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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Occlusion among a group of Tanzanian urban schoolchildren

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1988
Abstract 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, T, Laine, E, Kerosuo, D, Ngassapa, E, Honkala   +4 more
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Latin American Urbanism and Corporate Groups

Anthropological Quarterly, 1970
Traditional agrarian societies tend to develop corporate groups as important structural components. These groups are ascriptive and are formed on such bases as kinship, occupation and ethnicity among others. They pervade many areas of life and are significant to both the identity and activity of the individual.
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Urban-Rural Extension: Urban-Rural Reproduction Among Different Groups of Children

Chinese Education & Society, 2017
AbstractThe authors analyze survey data from four groups of children (urban children, migrant children, rural left-behind children, and ordinary rural children) to explore their social resource acc...
Han Jialing, Gao Yong, Zhang Yan, Han Chengming   +3 more
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