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Urban Sprawl in Texas: Will Portland's Smart Growth Policies Make A Difference?
Smart Growth has been a popular growth management tool. The State of Oregon was the pioneer in developing and applying this concept, which has placed Portland as a leading and exemplary community of good planning practices among urban planners. The ...
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Accession Number: 12690 | Publication Date: |
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Community Development Corporations and Welfare Reform: Linkages, Roles, and Impacts
The State University of New York's Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government and the New York University School of Law Center For Real Estate and Urban Policy formed a joint research project, which studied the early impacts of welfare reform on ...
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Accession Number: 12689 | Publication Date: |
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New Urbanism: Comprehensive Report & Best Practices Guide
This report presents a compendium of information of best practices of New Urbanism, characterizing it as a method of building human-scale neighborhoods in place of single-use subdivisions, shopping centers, and office parks. The report's 26 sections ...
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Accession Number: 12682 | Publication Date: |
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Coalition Building for Regionalism
This article discusses the ability of Oregon and Minnesota to legislatively promote metropolitan regionalism in the early 1970s, and compares it with the failure of similar measures in California and Illinois. Both Oregon and Minnesota had ...
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Accession Number: 10904 | Publication Date: |
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The Grow Home
This article reports on the marketing success of Grow Homes--small, inexpensive, new homes built in Eastern Canada--that attract buyers who would otherwise remain renters. Written by one of the designers of the Grow Homes, the article attributes the ...
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Accession Number: 10883 | Publication Date: |
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Can They Really Do That? Mandatory Communications Access and the Rights of Landlords
This article presents opposing viewpoints and legal precedents related to mandatory access regulations, proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), that would require building owners to provide telecommunications providers access to ...
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Accession Number: 10882 | Publication Date: |
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Real Estate Booms and Banking Busts
Describing bank problems in Sweden, Japan, and Boston as examples, this article outlines factors that in the 1980s contributed to banks lending too much capital to the over-valued real estate industry, which led to a financial crisis in the 1990s. ...
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Accession Number: 10875 | Publication Date: |
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Living Downtown
This article analyzes preliminary results from a University of Pennsylvania study on downtown populations in large and medium cities, and examines whether there is a growing national trend toward downtown living. Using data from the U.S. Census and ...
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Accession Number: 10874 | Publication Date: |
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A Nation of Spectators: How Civic Disengagement Weakens America and What We Can Do About It.
This report discusses active citizenship and its role in our civic health. The authors point out that many have become passive and disengaged leading to the degradation of society. The authors state in the final report that democracy is neither a ...
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Accession Number: 9191 | Publication Date: |
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Welfare Reform: States Are Restructuring Programs To Reduce Welfare Dependence.
This report reviews States' implementation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant, focusing on States' efforts to require and encourage welfare recipients to assume greater personal responsibility; how States are providing ...
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