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Pereyra, Omar. "Sampson, Robert (2012). Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. Chicago y Londres: The University of Chicago Press." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/114920.
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Träger, Anne. "The vertical island Pragmatopia : a story of translations, real dreams, and other cities." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1327786.
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The study describes urban morphology and design strategies in the form of thoughts, imagination, and reality. It is a visual and verbal narrative that uses the metaphor of a Vertical Island as a viable tool. The criteria investigated relate to American cities, yet also to the city in general. The final design is the precise architectural translation of my first narrative For Elise and Forever / Repeating Islands: a Typology of a Living City, the story of a girl on a journey into her world of thoughts, fancying a city built at a right angle. The following work studies and reflects the urban qualities that are not only unique to European but also to American and, yet common to all cities. It represents a touchable and visible proposal of a healthy union of advantages and a living system where patterns repeat across time and scales. Participating in the world as a trade center, The Vertical Island PRAGMATOPIA: a Story of Translations, Real Dreams, and Other Cities brings a piece of the European city to the United States as well as a bit of the American city to Europe.Department of Architecture
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Johnson, Natalie Jo. "Weapons in the City: Weapon Use in Chicago Homicide Cases." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5160/.
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This study used data from the homicides in Chicago 1965-1995 dataset (N=9,340) to examine the relationship between the use of certain types of weapons in criminal homicides by gender, race, age, victim-offender relationship, motive, location, and changes over time. Differential association and sex-role theory were utilized to argue why gender differences would occur in type of weapon used in a homicide. Subculture of violence theory was used to emphasize that the place where the homicide occurs, the relationship between the victim and offender, motive of the offender, and the remaining variables affects the type of weapon used to kill. Significant relationships were found for all bivariate analyses performed. The type of weapon used to kill differs most by sex of offender, resulting in a moderately strong association. The type of weapon used to kill differs least by age of offender and although statistically significant, the association between the two is very weak.
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Ritchie, Colin Bradley. "A City Stadium in a Stadium City." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83472.
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This thesis creates an improved fan experience creating the heart of a city through a design that the community can call home throughout the year. It extends the design of sports stadiums to include the fan experiences throughout the interior and the community experiences throughout the exterior to merge. By combining the stadium and city into experiential layering, the architectural decisions to form pedestrian streets and programmatic features can enhance the fan experiences and community experiences to merge through materials, structures, and spaces. The thesis creates an iconic entertainment hub that allows these experiences to expand into the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA.Master of Architecture
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Johnson, Natalie Jo Yoder Kevin Allan. "Weapons in the city weapon use in Chicago homicide cases /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5160.
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Mendez, Juan M. "The Hispanic population's economic impact on the city of West Chicago." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1306379.
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Growing up as the son of Mexican immigrant parents, in a city that has changed drainatically, I have had many questions as to the reason the city has changed so much. The city of West Chicago has experienced demographic shifts that are as astonishing on paper as they are in real life. This study answers why the Hispanic population chose the city of West Chicago as a destination and the positive impact that had on the city's economy. Hispanic family interviews also reveal the important factors and draws to the city, as well as an oral history of the city.Department of Urban Planning
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Robinson, Chloe Nichele. "Unsettling Settlements: Examining Police Misconduct Lawsuits in the City of Chicago." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31938.
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There is limited empirical research related to lawsuits involving the police due in part to limited accessibility to relevant data sources. This study aims to examine the relationship between citizen, situational, and lawsuit factors and police misconduct litigation in the city of Chicago. Data were collected from two separate databases: The Chicago Reporter and The Invisible Institute. The analyses in this study demonstrate that there is a relationship between lawsuit payout amounts, lawsuit misconduct type and various situational factors. Policy implications are discussed.
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Atabay, Piril H. "Belonging to the city rural migrants in modernizing Chicago and Istanbul /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Gage, Stephen. "Gray City of the Midway : the University of Chicago and the search for American urban culture, 1890-1932." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267826.
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This research examines the American industrial city in the early twentieth century and the role of cultural institutions in the shift to an urban-oriented society. In-depth analysis of the University of Chicago’s architecture and planning traces how urban form emerged gradually as an assimilation of different traditions. It challenges a planning literature reliant on narrowly-prescribed categories and qualifies recent cultural histories that give a more nuanced portrayal of Progressive Era urban culture but which fail to consider the built environment directly. The research’s critical questions reconsider the role of nature within the city, the definition of the urban public, and the intertwining of commerce and civic culture. Its methodology uses original analytic drawings which trace how the University expanded over time, united with consideration of previously-unexplored written and visual archives. This combination of analytic mapping and archival investigation on one institution reveals new insights into how the industrial city was shaped as a whole. The findings identify paradoxes in the University’s planning, which promoted the dynamism of the modern city while evoking the image of bucolic Oxbridge. These contradictory impulses were enhanced by the University’s location on the Midway Plaisance, a public boulevard typifying the urban/rural hybridity of Chicago’s park system. The result was an urbanised nature, or the charged proximity of urban density and pastoral green space. Disputing the perceived eclipse of the nineteenth-century Parks movement, the term ‘urbanised nature’ suggests how earlier concern for naturalistic landscape was fused with the ideals of twentieth-century Progressivism. The research also contests previous emphasis on the exclusionary cultural practices of this period, as the heterogeneous development of the University’s Collegiate Gothic campus reveals a struggle to balance commercial interests, pastoral imagery, and monumental urban display. More broadly, this research sheds new light on the contradictions that shaped the American city in the early twentieth century—an urban culture driven by the contentious relationship between industrial capitalism and civic institutions, a public realm animated by mass appeal and elite tradition, and a spatial order drawn from urban and rural models.
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Henrion, Andrea. "The urban observatory : spatial adjustment-perception in space." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1116357.
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This thesis develops a creative Project, the "Urban Observatory", situated on a traffic island in the center of Chicago on Wacker Drive and Wabash Avenue along the Chicago River. The aim of the building is to inspire and motivate people to experience the city from a different standpoint and to raise the inhabitant of the city to a different level of perception.The purpose of this study was to explore everyday circumstances and observations of an individual place, the American City and the search for its true genius loci. The main intention is to explore and visualize issues about culturally based differences in behavior and perception of people living in place of 'super scale' and 'high technology' on one side and abandonment and destruction on the other side. The study of the American City and its inhabitants results in an experimental design for an Urban Observatory, an architectural formulation standing in opposition to an architecture of change and fragmentation, an architecture of lost and senseless space. Furthermore the study researches the urban American fabric in practice as well as in theory. The intensive study of the writings of Malcolm Quantrill, Richard Sennett, Toni Hiss and others were the base for developing ideas about how people perceive and react consciously and unconsciously to a specific environment.This helped to identify the frame of the architectural exploration, in order to focus on ideas about: what is architecture of observation in the urban context, and what is the idea of perception in its spatial form?A journal of the design process (sketches, writings), models of varying scale and detail, drawings, photographs, etc. are the working tools to shape the idea of a building and fusing all aspects in a final project.Department of Architecture
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Farmer, Hannah. "Eve in the renegade city : elite Jewish women's philanthropy in Chicago, 1890-1900." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367067/.
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This thesis examines the philanthropic organisations and projects with which elite Jewish women in Chicago were concerned during the years 1890–1900. It concentrates on the National Council of Jewish Women, which was founded by a group of Chicago women in 1893 after the Jewish Women’s Congress at the World’s Columbian Exposition. The NCJW was this community’s highest-profile philanthropic organisation, bringing them local, national and international attention. The 1890s were a turbulent decade—politically, socially and economically. Against this backdrop, Chicago’s philanthropists were pioneers of the Progressive Movement. The NCJW showed early interest in Progressivism, but came from a Jewish community with set notions of appropriate roles for women. The NCJW's leaders encouraged philanthropic innovation, but presented themselves themselves very traditionally, as ‘model’ American women. Previous scholarship has emphasised the conservative character of the NCJW, suggesting that it was only different from contemporaries by having a Jewish membership. This thesis will show that this was not the case. Beginning with an introduction to Chicago and Chicago’s Jewish community, this thesis contextualises these women’s philanthropic work. It then moves on to examine—in greater detail than can be found in existing scholarship—the foundation and early years of the NCJW. Its final two chapters address the other philanthropic organisations and projects with which elite Jewish women were associated, within and outside of the Jewish community, showing that they were intimately involved in Progressive philanthropy. The philanthropic activities of this group show them to have been far more radically-minded than has generally been thought. Their work with the NCJW brought them influence and acclaim which has been forgotten. This thesis seeks to provide a deeper understanding of this group and their work, placing them within the context of the time and place in which they lived.
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Ellwanger, C. William. "A curriculum for a Bible training school for urban ministry an extension of Olivet Nazarene University in Chicago /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Williams, Germaine Shaw. "(Re)Culturing the City: Race, Urban Development, and Arts Policy in Chicago, 1935-1987." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2015. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/473.
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This dissertation examines the intersection of race, urban development, and arts policy in Chicago between 1935 and 1987. Maintaining a focus at the city level, it considers how activists, politicians, civic leaders, and bureaucrats operated within three policy environments presented by the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (1935-‐1943), an interregnum period of dispersed domestic cultural policymaking (1944-‐1963), and the early years of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities (1965-‐1985). In the interplay between cultural activism, federal policy implementation, and the arc of urban development in Chicago, recognition of the arts as a key component of the local economy deepened, an extensive infrastructure formed, and refinements of the meaning of cultural democracy advanced. Chapters focus on the development of Work Progress Administration community art centers as a component of the relief policy framework; the implications for municipal arts policy of Mayor Richard J. Daley’s concern for stimulating the local economy and attracting affluent whites to the city; the extension of a state-‐wide system of support for the arts in Illinois; and the Harold Washington administration’s efforts to institutionalize the arts as a part of city government via a vision of cultural democracy that emphasized multiculturalism, access, and free exchange. The dissertation considers the role of government in supporting the arts sector’s orientation towards cultural democracy, defined by valued diversity, open participation, and the right to be heard regardless of race and class background.
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Hardaway, Gregory S. "Effectively pastoring a small inner city congregation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Woodard, Davon Teremus Trevino. "FRAMES OF DIGITAL BLACKNESS IN THE RACIALIZED PALIMPSEST CITY: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AND JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104658.
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The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been localized and spatially embedded through the tools of urban planning. This arc of racialized otherness, ineffectively erased, continues to inform the racially differentiated geospatial, health, social, and economic outcomes in contemporary urban form and functions for Black communities. It is within this historical arc, and against these differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated.
This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable urban community members. As urbanists and advocates strive to co-create urban space and place with municipalities, meeting the needs of these residents is imperative. In order to meet these needs, their lived experiences, and voices must be fully recognized and engaged in the processes and programs of urban co-creation, including in digital spaces and forums. Critical to achieving recognition acknowledging and situating contemporary digital discourses between local municipalities, Black residents, and Black networks within this historically racialized arc is necessary. In doing so, explore if, and how, race, specifically Blackness, is enacted in municipal digital discourse, whether these enactments serve to advance or impede resident recognition and participation, and how Black users, as residents and social network curators, engage and respond to these municipal discursive enactments.
This exploratory research is a geographically and digitally multi-sited incorporated comparison of Chicago, Illinois, and Johannesburg South Africa. Using Twitter and ethnographic data collected between December 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020, this research layers digital ethnographic mixed methods and qualitive mixed methods, including traditional ethnographic, digital ethnographic, grounded theory, social change and discourse analysis, and frame analysis to explore three research goals.
First, explore the digital discursive practices and frames employed by municipalities to inform, communicate with, and engage Black communities, and, if and how, these frames are situated within a historically racialized arc. Second, identify the ways in which Black residents, in dual discursive engagements with local municipalities and their own social networks, interact and engage with the municipal frames centering on Blackness. Third, through ethnographic narratives, acknowledge the marginalized residents of the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa as "agents of knowledge," with critical and valuable knowledge claims which arise from their lived experiences anchored within racialized place and space. In doing so, support the efforts of these residents in recentering the validity of their knowledge claims in the co-creation of urban place and space. Additionally, in situating the city within a historically racialized arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.Doctor of Philosophy
The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been localized and spatially embedded through the tools of urban planning. This arc of racialized otherness, ineffectively erased, continues to inform the racially differentiated geospatial, health, social, and economic outcomes in contemporary urban form and functions for Black communities. It is within this historical arc, and against these differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated. This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable urban community members. As urbanists and advocates strive to co-create urban space and place with municipalities, meeting the needs of these residents is imperative. In order to meet these needs, their lived experiences, and voices must be fully recognized and engaged in the processes and programs of urban co-creation, including in digital spaces and forums. Critical to achieving recognition acknowledging and situating contemporary digital discourses between local municipalities, Black residents, and Black networks within this historically racialized arc is necessary. In doing so, explore if, and how, race, specifically Blackness, is enacted in municipal digital discourse, whether these enactments serve to advance or impede resident recognition and participation, and how Black users, as residents and social network curators, engage and respond to these municipal discursive enactments. This exploratory research is a geographically and digitally multi-sited incorporated comparison of Chicago, Illinois, and Johannesburg South Africa. Using Twitter and ethnographic data collected between December 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020, this research layers digital ethnographic mixed methods and qualitive mixed methods, including traditional ethnographic, digital ethnographic, grounded theory, social change and discourse analysis, and frame analysis to explore three research goals. First, explore the digital discursive practices and frames employed by municipalities to inform, communicate with, and engage Black communities, and, if and how, these frames are situated within a historically racialized arc. Second, identify the ways in which Black residents, in dual discursive engagements with local municipalities and their own social networks, interact and engage with the municipal frames centering on Blackness. Third, through ethnographic narratives, acknowledge the marginalized residents of the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa as "agents of knowledge," with critical and valuable knowledge claims which arise from their lived experiences anchored within racialized place and space. In doing so, support the efforts of these residents in recentering the validity of their knowledge claims in the co-creation of urban place and space. Additionally, in situating the city within a historically racialized arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.
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Woodard, Davon Teremus Trevino. "Frames of Digital Blackness in the Racialized Palimpsest City: Chicago, Illinois and Johannesburg, South Africa." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104658.
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The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been localized and spatially embedded through the tools of urban planning. This arc of racialized otherness, ineffectively erased, continues to inform the racially differentiated geospatial, health, social, and economic outcomes in contemporary urban form and functions for Black communities. It is within this historical arc, and against these differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated.
This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable urban community members. As urbanists and advocates strive to co-create urban space and place with municipalities, meeting the needs of these residents is imperative. In order to meet these needs, their lived experiences, and voices must be fully recognized and engaged in the processes and programs of urban co-creation, including in digital spaces and forums. Critical to achieving recognition acknowledging and situating contemporary digital discourses between local municipalities, Black residents, and Black networks within this historically racialized arc is necessary. In doing so, explore if, and how, race, specifically Blackness, is enacted in municipal digital discourse, whether these enactments serve to advance or impede resident recognition and participation, and how Black users, as residents and social network curators, engage and respond to these municipal discursive enactments.
This exploratory research is a geographically and digitally multi-sited incorporated comparison of Chicago, Illinois, and Johannesburg South Africa. Using Twitter and ethnographic data collected between December 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020, this research layers digital ethnographic mixed methods and qualitive mixed methods, including traditional ethnographic, digital ethnographic, grounded theory, social change and discourse analysis, and frame analysis to explore three research goals.
First, explore the digital discursive practices and frames employed by municipalities to inform, communicate with, and engage Black communities, and, if and how, these frames are situated within a historically racialized arc. Second, identify the ways in which Black residents, in dual discursive engagements with local municipalities and their own social networks, interact and engage with the municipal frames centering on Blackness. Third, through ethnographic narratives, acknowledge the marginalized residents of the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa as "agents of knowledge," with critical and valuable knowledge claims which arise from their lived experiences anchored within racialized place and space. In doing so, support the efforts of these residents in recentering the validity of their knowledge claims in the co-creation of urban place and space. Additionally, in situating the city within a historically racialized arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.Doctor of Philosophy
The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been localized and spatially embedded through the tools of urban planning. This arc of racialized otherness, ineffectively erased, continues to inform the racially differentiated geospatial, health, social, and economic outcomes in contemporary urban form and functions for Black communities. It is within this historical arc, and against these differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated. This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable urban community members. As urbanists and advocates strive to co-create urban space and place with municipalities, meeting the needs of these residents is imperative. In order to meet these needs, their lived experiences, and voices must be fully recognized and engaged in the processes and programs of urban co-creation, including in digital spaces and forums. Critical to achieving recognition acknowledging and situating contemporary digital discourses between local municipalities, Black residents, and Black networks within this historically racialized arc is necessary. In doing so, explore if, and how, race, specifically Blackness, is enacted in municipal digital discourse, whether these enactments serve to advance or impede resident recognition and participation, and how Black users, as residents and social network curators, engage and respond to these municipal discursive enactments. This exploratory research is a geographically and digitally multi-sited incorporated comparison of Chicago, Illinois, and Johannesburg South Africa. Using Twitter and ethnographic data collected between December 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020, this research layers digital ethnographic mixed methods and qualitive mixed methods, including traditional ethnographic, digital ethnographic, grounded theory, social change and discourse analysis, and frame analysis to explore three research goals. First, explore the digital discursive practices and frames employed by municipalities to inform, communicate with, and engage Black communities, and, if and how, these frames are situated within a historically racialized arc. Second, identify the ways in which Black residents, in dual discursive engagements with local municipalities and their own social networks, interact and engage with the municipal frames centering on Blackness. Third, through ethnographic narratives, acknowledge the marginalized residents of the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa as "agents of knowledge," with critical and valuable knowledge claims which arise from their lived experiences anchored within racialized place and space. In doing so, support the efforts of these residents in recentering the validity of their knowledge claims in the co-creation of urban place and space. Additionally, in situating the city within a historically racialized arc develop novel frameworks, the racialized palimpsest city and syndemic segregation, through which to explore contemporary urban interactions and engagements.
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Olivendal, Nica. "Stadsdelar i förändring : En jämförande arkitekturanalys av gentrifierade områden i Chicago och London." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448228.
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The aim of this dissertation was to research, through a comparative architectural analysis,whether the two urban districts Camden Town in north London and Greater Grand Crossing in south Chicago have or have not been gentrified and, if so, what kind of gentrification process they have gone through. The study was based on three questions: what buildings have been transformed in each area? How have the buildings been transformed? Have the functionsof the city districts been transformed with any particular focus in mind? The study found that Camden Town has been tourist gentrified, since the primary focus of the gentrification process was towards tourism and entertainment businesses where old Victorian, industrial buildings were transformed into venues for live music, shops and markets. In the case of Greater Grand Crossing however, it is not possible to establish that the area has been gentrified. Chicagoan artist Theaster Gates transformed several residential houses as part of a project, some of which remained residential, and some were made into spaces for cultural activities. However, the focus of the transformation was towards the already existing population and not towards potential gentrifiers.
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Budovitch, Max (Max M. ). "Acting Up : how community organizations work with, around, and against city hall for housing justice in Chicago." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118211.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-137).
This thesis argues that community organizations in Chicago, from the Loop to Pilsen to Kenwood, pursue housing justice by employing three modes of action, each of which embodies a particular relationship to the state. They act with the state by ordinance to pass laws and engage in electoral activity; around the state by convening to leverage relationships in the absence of formal legislation; and against the state by contesting to challenge centralized decision-making. Using community planning theory, this view builds on conceptions of collective efficacy by focusing on the relationship of community organizations to the state's regulatory power rather than on indicators of social capital or civic action. The research is based on over 30 interviews with leaders and activists in neighborhood associations, community development corporations, and independent political organizations working on prominent housing justice campaigns since the 2008 foreclosure crisis. These campaigns include a rent control ballot initiative, the introduction of several anti-eviction ordinances, an affordable housing preservation program, and the establishment of a community zoning board. In each of these cases, the varying isolation, interaction, and blending of the three modes of action complicates dichotomous portrayals of the grassroots -- state relationship, providing an analytic lens through which to understand how and why certain issues become important on both neighborhood and citywide scales and how neighborhood groups position themselves and mobilize via-a-vis the state.
by Max Budovitch.
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Aryal, Sulabh. "Evolution of Urban Design in Practice (Case studies of Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland through time)." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2195.
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Throughout the twentieth century various urban design theories came into light. These theories were sometimes original and sometimes derivative of some previous theory.These theories can be broadly categorized in different urban design models. The chronological study of different urban design theories gives us the theoretical and generic evolution of urban design. The practical evolution of urban design in any city can be different from the generic evolution of urban design. This thesis examines the urban design of three Midwestern American cities from their origins to the present day. The urban design of these cities, related to different time periods is then compared with the different urban design models to understand the "Evolution of Urban Design in Practice".
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Ishii, Nobuyuki. "A phenomenological understanding of an image of a city: touching water in waterfront cities." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42149.
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This thesis attempts to grasp the creation of an image of a city, taking the case of
waterfront cities where the presence of water becomes a sense of place. A phenomenological
method was employed for investigating actual waterfront cities: Boston, Chicago, and
San Francisco. Although a single method has yet to be established for studying a sense of
place, phenomenology was adopted because it deals with the relationship between an
environment and the experience of that environment. This thesis found some common
qualities between these cities in their fonns. These qualities seem to have a certain
relationship to the creation of the images of these waterfront cities. This study also brought
up the question of how to evaluate personal experiences phenomenologically. They are
related to the basis of this thesis. This shows us the difficulty of practicing the
phenomenology and the profundity of studying an image of a city. At the same time, it is a
step for further study.
Master of Landscape Architecture
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Lester, Charlie. "The New Negro of Jazz: New Orleans, Chicago, New York, the First Great Migration, and the Harlem Renaissance, 1890-1930." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337101257.
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Binaghi, Maurizio. "The church and the city the quest for Jesus' presence in urban settings /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Hallstoos, Brian James. "Windy city, holy land: Willa Saunders Jones and black sacred music and drama." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/371.
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My dissertation argues that African Americans in the 20th-century connected lynching and other acts of racial violence with Christ's crucifixion, which in turn fostered hope and even interracial amity by linking his resurrection with racial uplift. To illustrate this dynamic, I focus on musician, dramatist, and church leader Willa Saunders Jones (1901-79) and her Passion play, which she wrote in Chicago during the 1920s. Over the course of six decades, Jones produced her play annually in churches and later large civic theaters. Growing in size and splendor, the play remained intimately tied with the Black church. It also bore the impress of Jones's cultural training in Little Rock, Arkansas and Chicago, the city to which her family fled after a transforming brush with racial violence. The rise of her Passion play depended upon her musical success, most notably as a choral director. By focusing on a single cultural product over time and through several disciplinary lenses, my study contributes new insights into the role of sacred music and drama within the African American community.
Offering a brief overview of Jones and her play, my Introduction also articulates the dissertation's two central organizing concepts: the crucifixion trope and resurrection consciousness. Chapters One and Two explain why Americans, especially of African descent, made a link between the suffering of black men in America and the crucifixion of Christ (the crucifixion trope). Chapters Three and Four indicate why Jones considered sacred music and drama to be agents of racial uplift and interracial amity. The final chapter focuses on the theme of Christ's resurrection as a metaphor that animates certain responses to racial trauma (resurrection consciousness). In addition to a wide range of secondary sources, I draw upon personal interviews, court records, genealogical records, the Black press, visual images, song lyrics, correspondence, autobiographies, plays, playbills, school records, television footage, and church publications of the National Baptist Convention, USA. "Windy City, Holy Land" should be of special interest to scholars in African American Studies, American Studies, History, Religious Studies, Theatre Studies, and Women's Studies.
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Jones, Nicolette. "How Are American Cities Planning for Climate Change? An Evaluation of Climate Action Planning in Chicago, IL and Portland, OR." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1592.
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Contending with a changing climate presents a necessary push for planning. Although climate change is considered a global environmental problem requiring a global commitment and trans-national action, more and more, policymakers are recognizing the vital need for action at the local level. In the US, especially in the absence of national climate legislation, many local governments have begun developing strategic plans, or climate action plans (CAPs), to address adapting to impacts of climate change and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This thesis involves case studies of Portland, OR and Chicago, IL, cities with recently adopted CAPs and with considerable recognition in the field. The analysis involves an evaluation each city’s CAP and an evaluation of its implementation. The studies help elicit an understanding of the measures cites are employing to mitigate climate change and determine ways the planning profession can better assist communities in climate policy development and its prompt implementation.
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Fricke, Karen Joy. "Urban churches' responses to HIV/AIDS in their communities an exploration of histories and theologies /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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Nold, Charlotte R. "The development of a ministry with the deaf alcoholic at St. John United Church of Christ an interpretation of the Kingdom of God /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Roberts, David A. "The Changes in American Society from the 17th to 20th Century Reflected in the Language of City Planning Documents." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1410888727.
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Patton, David Dellus. "THE PEDAGOGY AND ETHICS OF IMPROVISATION USING THE HAROLD." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/906.
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Scenic improvisation is dramatic performance without a script. Performers develop scenes in real time in front of an audience. They do this by submitting to a set of rules of relating on-stage which allow them, by mutual assent, to develop scenes and stories based on their relationships with one another. This methodology by which improvisers develop their scenes can give us a tangible vocabulary and model by which we can fulfill the requirements of love. The Harold, an improvisational form created by Del Close and Charna Halpern and taught and performed at IO (formerly ImprovOlympic), emphasizes this relational ethic as the means to create consistent and sustainable theatrical performances. This paper will examine the performance methodology and pedagogy of long-form improvisation and particularly the Harold as a guide for ethical decision-making and behavior in our personal relationships.
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Eames, Eric M. "Monarch Cheers, Integration Whimpers, and a Loyalty Conflict: Kansas City Call's Coverage of the Black Yankees, 1937-1955." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1929.
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Already regarded as one of the top teams in Negro League baseball, the Kansas City Monarchs became known as a powerhouse unit in the 1930s and 40s. They rolled into towns with lights, amazing athletes, and competitive play. They won championship after championship during these years as Kansas City baseball fans strongly supported them. As they became an integral part of the city, the Monarchs' success, open-seating policy, and jazzy home openers fostered a large following of mixed-race fans. The local black newspaper, the Kansas City Call, held them up on a pedestal, while sportswriters for the mainstream Kansas City Star/Times downplayed the Monarchs' accomplishments and influence in the community. This thesis focuses on the relationship the Call had with the best team in black baseball through the context of its treatment of games, players, league officials, and team owners, as well as other patterns and tactics. Analysis of the Star/Times coverage is also considered to show variances in coverage between one city's race-divided newspapers. Negro League baseball and the African American newspapers that covered the teams grew out of and illustrated the segregation laws and prejudices feelings that existed in the United States during most of the twentieth century. Over time, especially when the sports world moved into the post-integration period, the Call's bolstering of the Monarchs deteriorated as the paper's promotion of democracy steered its sportswriters away from a baseball organization that symbolized segregation. The different types of coverage by the Call throughout the twenty-year study can be described as all-out promotion, balance, and abandonment. In the 1950s nostalgia and conflict existed, as the Call's sportswriters became torn on how to cover a team that was once the pride of the black community, but now represented inequality. In an attempt to remedy this torment, the Call tried to convince black baseball officials to remove the “Negro League” stigma by signing players of all races in order to mirror the more democratic Major Leagues. The white press, meanwhile, ignored the bigger issues of black baseball as one Negro League team after another died in the 1950s. The Star/Times peripheral coverage of the Monarchs provides context to the social issues and discriminatory practices at play in Missouri. As this thesis outlines the coverage of the Monarchs through the Black and White newspapers of Kansas City, previous research is substantiated and challenged to provide a fuller account of Jim Crow's effects.
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Burnham, Justin (Justin Paul). "The new food-tech city : adapting Chicago's post-stockyard urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72810.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.Pages 85 and 86 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-84).
This thesis examines the latent potential of Chicago's former Union Stock Yard, which consequentially draws attention to the polarities of industrial food production. The Union Stock Yard was once symbolic of an era where urban progress was equated with efficiency and growth. Today, the site is facing an identity crisis: it is characterized predominantly by underutilized warehousing, however, innovative closed-loop food producers (such as The Plant and the Iron Street Farm) are indicative of an emerging narrative that focuses on sustainability, health, and taste. This thesis offers a design proposal for a new food technologies cluster that includes multifunctional programmatic components for: research, production, and marketing (as well as new residential communities.) The goal is to formulate a design solution that selectively packages existing elements (river, warehouses, workforce) with new buildings, infrastructure, and public spaces - to build a flexible urban network that will reconnect to the larger square-mile Chicago grid. To do so the study draws upon original analytical studies and numerous precedents that convert decommissioned industrial land. The design product will provide reflection upon the past as it presents a scenario for the future.
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Cloer, Katherine Reguero. "A Champion for the Chicano Community: Anita N. Martínez and Her Contributions to the City of Dallas, 1969-1973." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84190/.
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Much has been published in Chicano studies over the past thirty to forty years; lacking in the historiography are the roles that Chicanas have played, specifically concerning politics in Dallas, Texas. How were Chicanas able to advance El Movimiento (the Mexican American civil rights movement)? Anita Martínez was the first woman to serve on the Dallas City Council and the first Mexican American woman to be elected to the city council in any major U.S. city. She served on the council from 1969 to 1973 and remained active on various state and local boards until 1984. Although the political system of Dallas has systematically marginalized Mexican American political voices and eradicated Mexican American barrios, some Mexican Americans fought the status quo and actively sought out the improvement of Mexican barrios and an increase in Mexican American political representation, Anita N. Martínez was one of these advocates. Long before she was elected to office, she began her activism with efforts to improve her children’s access to education and efforts to improve the safety of her community. Martinez was a champion for the Chicano community, especially for the youth. Her work for and with young Chicanos has earned her the moniker, “Defender of Dreams.” She created a chicano recreation center in Dallas, as well as various poverty programs and neighborhood beautification projects. Although she has remained relatively unknown, during her tenure on the Dallas City Council, between the years 1969 and 1973, Anita Martínez made invaluable, lasting contributions to the Chicano community in Dallas.
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Farmer, Stephanie. "Chicago's public transportation system the contradictions of neoliberalism in the global city /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Parrilla, Franciele Aline [UNESP]. "Chico Bento, um caipira do campo ou da cidade?: a representação do espaço rural e urbano e de seus habitantes na revista em quadrinhos do Chico Bento (1982-2000)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93429.
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O objetivo da presente dissertação é realizar uma leitura crítica e sistematizada da revista em quadrinhos intitulada Chico Bento - nome da personagem criada por Maurício de Sousa - entre os anos de 1982 e 2000, a fim de analisar as representações elaboradas acerca do campo e da cidade e de seus habitantes. Do mesmo modo, pretende-se investigar de que maneira tais imagens dialogam com outras representações já cristalizadas acerca desses espaços.
The objective of the present dissertation is to make a critical and systematized reading of the comic strips entitled Chico Bento - name of the character created by Maurício de Sousa - from 1982 to 2000, in order to analyze the representations elaborated concerning the rural and urban spaces and of their inhabitants. In this way, it intends to investigate that it sorts out such images dialogue with other representations crystallized of those spaces.
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Parrilla, Franciele Aline. "Chico Bento, um caipira do campo ou da cidade? : a representação do espaço rural e urbano e de seus habitantes na revista em quadrinhos do Chico Bento (1982-2000) /." Assis : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93429.
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Resumo: O objetivo da presente dissertação é realizar uma leitura crítica e sistematizada da revista em quadrinhos intitulada Chico Bento - nome da personagem criada por Maurício de Sousa - entre os anos de 1982 e 2000, a fim de analisar as representações elaboradas acerca do campo e da cidade e de seus habitantes. Do mesmo modo, pretende-se investigar de que maneira tais imagens dialogam com outras representações já cristalizadas acerca desses espaços.
Abstract: The objective of the present dissertation is to make a critical and systematized reading of the comic strips entitled Chico Bento - name of the character created by Maurício de Sousa - from 1982 to 2000, in order to analyze the representations elaborated concerning the rural and urban spaces and of their inhabitants. In this way, it intends to investigate that it sorts out such images dialogue with other representations crystallized of those spaces.
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Pingo, Jara Roger. "El marketing de ciudades y la gestión urbana socialmente responsable, caso ciudad de Chiclayo 2016-2035." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/114776.
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The objectives of this research had two approaches; the qualitative objectives were: to learn about the development expectations of Chiclayo for the next 20 years; to identify ways to achieve this goal; and to develop a concept that educates socially responsible citizens. Quantitative objectives: to identify the problems in the city of Chiclayo, to analyze the citizens’ perception of Chiclayo’s problems and to prioritize proposals for the sustainable development of Chiclayo. From this study, we conclude that the city of Chiclayo is facing a structural problem that affects the quality of life of all its citizens. It lacks a socially responsible city plan . Citizens expect a healthy, clean, ethical-moral, safe and organized city; they demand an educational plan for a socially responsible city. Thus, we are proposing a plan called «Chiclayo 2035. Quality of life and development».Los objetivos de la investigación apuntaron en dos direcciones. En lo que respecta a lo cualitativo, se buscaba conocer las expectativas de desarrollo de Chiclayo para los próximos veinte años, identificar la manera de lograr el cambio y elaborar una propuesta que permita formar ciudadanos socialmente responsables. En lo cuantitativo, se esperaba identificar la problemática de la ciudad de Chiclayo, analizar la percepción de los chiclayanos sobre la problemática de la ciudad y priorizar las propuestas para el desarrollo sustentable y sostenible de Chiclayo.A partir de este estudio, se concluye que la ciudad de Chiclayo afronta una problemática estructural que afecta la calidad de vida de todos sus grupos de interés. Se carece de un modelo de ciudad socialmente responsable. Los ciudadanos esperan una ciudad saludable, limpia, ética-moral, segura, ordenada y demandan un proceso educativo en responsabilidad social transversal. Sobre esta base, se propone el modelo «Chiclayo al 2035. Calidad de vida y desarrollo».
Os objetivos da pesquisa apontam em duas direções. No método qualitativo: procurou-se conhecer às expectativas de desenvolvimento de Chiclayo para os próximos vinte anos, identificar formas para conseguir uma mudança e prepararuma proposta para educar cidadãos socialmente responsáveis. Quantitativamente: identificar os problemas da cidade de Chiclayo, analisar a percepção dos cidadãos sobre os problemas da cidade e priorizar propostas para o desenvolvimento sustentável de Chiclayo. A partir deste estudo, conclui-se que a cidade de Chiclayo enfrenta um problema estrutural que afeta a qualidade de vida de todos os seus cidadãos. A cidade carece de um modelo socialmente responsável. Os cidadãos pedem uma cidade saudável, ordenada, limpa, segura, ética e moral, e exigem ações transversais para a educação e responsabilidade social.Nesta base, a proposta é um modelo chamado «Chiclayo 2035. Qualidade de vida e desenvolvimento».
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RIBEIRO, R. A. "Formação Sócio-espacial da Antiga Vila Operária de Chico City, Região Metropolitana da Grande Vitória, Espírito Santo." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2011. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3575.
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Previous issue date: 2011-05-17A dissertação é um estudo da antiga vila operária de Chico City, localizada no bairro Colina de Laranjeiras, município de Serra, um dos sete municípios que compõem a Região Metropolitana da Grande Vitória no Espírito Santo. Chico City não é denominado bairro pela prefeitura municipal, porém, por ter uma história própria, por ser lugar de vivência e de práticas cotidianas, os moradores terem habitus diferentes das demais áreas do bairro em que está inserido, Colina de Laranjeiras, consideramos Chico City como um bairro. Por outro lado, há um interesse nessa área por parte dos incorporadores imobiliários apoiados pela prefeitura municipal, pois ela se localiza nas proximidades de um importante sub-centro da região metropolitana, com considerável crescimento imobiliário e do setor terciário: o bairro Laranjeiras. O trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os efeitos de grupos diferentes habitarem o espaço do bairro Colina de Laranjeiras e como esse espaço foi modificado ao longo dos últimos anos, dando ênfase à situação de Chico City, que está inserido em uma área de expansão do mercado imobiliário. A metodologia utilizada foi principalmente revisão bibliográfica sobre os temas pertinentes, análise de documentos da administração municipal de Serra, visitas a campo e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com moradores de Chico City, das quais extraímos respostas sobre a vida cotidiana dos entrevistados, as relações de vizinhança, as mudanças no espaço-tempo de Chico City, entre outros aspectos. Também entrevistamos funcionários da prefeitura municipal de Serra. A proximidade no espaço não implica necessariamente na existência de relações de vizinhança, e estas não existem ou são superficiais entre os habitantes dos dois bairros, o que se explica pela posse de capitais econômico, social e cultural diferenciados. Além disso, há uma relação de dominação por parte da população vizinha e do poder público com Chico City, mas ao mesmo tempo, Colina de Laranjeiras não é uma vizinhança indesejada para essa população dominada, visto que eles atribuem as mudanças no bairro ao crescimento do entorno, e não à participação popular, apesar da existência dos movimentos de bairro de forma ativa. Palavras-chave: Chico City. Vila operária. Bairro. Habitus. Crescimento imobiliário.
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Ryan, Angela Rose. "Education for the People: The Third World Student Movement at San Francisco State College and City College of New York." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275416332.
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Martinez, Peter Charles. "Ready to Run: Fort Worth's Mexicans in Search of Representation, 1960-2000." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011835/.
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This dissertation analyzes Fort Worth's Mexican community from 1960 to 2000 while considering the idea of citizenship through representation in education and politics. After establishing an introductory chapter that places the research in context with traditional Chicano scholarship while utilizing prominent ideas and theories that exist within Modern Imperial studies, the ensuing chapter looks into the rise of Fort Worth's Mexican population over the last four decades of the twentieth century. Thereafter, this work brings the attention to Mexican education in Fort Worth beginning in the 1960s and going through the end of the twentieth century. This research shows some of the struggles Mexicans encountered as they sought increased representation in the classroom, on the school board, and within other areas of the Fort Worth Independent School District. Meanwhile, Mexicans were in direct competition with African Americans who also sought increased representation while simultaneously pushing for more aggressive integration efforts against the wishes of Mexican leadership. Subsequently, this research moves the attention to political power in Fort Worth, primarily focusing on the Fort Worth city council. Again, this dissertation begins in the 1960s after the Fort Worth opened the election of the mayor to the people of Fort Worth. No Mexican was ever elected to city council prior to the rise of single-member districts despite several efforts by various community leaders. Chapter V thus culminates with the rise of single-member districts in 1977 which transitions the research to chapter VI when Mexicans were finally successful in garnering political representation on the city council. Finally, Chapter VII concludes the twentieth century beginning with the rapid rise and fall of an organization called Hispanic 2000, an organization that sought increased Mexican representation but soon fell apart because of differences of opinion. In concluding the research, the final chapter provides an evaluation of the lack of Mexican representation both in Fort Worth education and in the political realm. Furthermore, the finishing chapter places Fort Worth's Mexican situation within the context of both Chicano history as well as identify some key aspects of the history of modern empire. This investigation poses pertinent questions regarding the lack of Mexican representation while African Americans end the century well-represented on the school board, in education jobs, and on the city council.
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"Windy City Opera's La Bohème: A Case Study of Producing Micro-Opera in Chicago." Doctoral diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38476.
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abstract: This research paper recounts the work done in founding an opera company and putting on its inaugural show. It also provides some of the insights acquired during the process, which may be helpful for other future opera producers in creating a framework and guideposts for starting their own companies. The paper consists of two main sections followed by several short appendices.
The first section methodically reconstructs the process by which Windy City Opera's La Bohème was brought to the stage. It covers the background experiences that prompted the author to found her own company, the research and decisions involved, and the interplay between the company's overall goals and the resources available for a first production. The business, casting, rehearsing, and marketing aspects are reviewed in detail, as well as several mistakes that were made during the process that afforded valuable learning opportunities.
The second section follows up on these and other opportunities by sketching an ideal plan that opera startups might follow; the principal topics are timeline, budgeting, fundraising, venue selection, personnel selection, and marketing.
The appendices consist of worksheets and materials meant to illustrate and supplement this written how-to guide, as well as a video of the Windy City Opera production of La Bohème.Dissertation/Thesis
Appendix B - Budget Worksheet
Appendix C - Artist Contract Template
Appendix M - La Bohème - Video
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Hoyt, Neil E. "Re-humanizing the commercial core a masterplan for Chicago's Central Loop /." 2005. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04152005-155807/.
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Yu-Chen, Teng, and 鄧育承. "The Relationship between Political Machine and Political Party: A Case Study of Chicago City." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09759816990866000622.
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The major political parties of U.S. (Democratic party and Republican Party) are divided into national party representative, state and county layer. The U.S. party is loosely formed because of Greater independence, laxer party-disciple and slacker registering procedures. Due to a fiery election, each layer may get into “consultative cooperation” process. The closer the bilateral or trilateral relationship is, the better access the lowest one, as run by political machine in county, is going to get public resources through this channel. This happens only if the same party dominates the federal and state government. A political machine is a party organization depending mainly on inducements like specific or non-material favors. The machine traded faithful voters whatever is needed to win election or to get party affairs done. However, The political channel of patronage is the groundwork for factional influence within the political machine; often, a party boss is predominant over the city or specific ward, dispensing job patronage, favors and personal services. Anton J. Cermak is the first Chicago mayor running the political machine through Democratic Cook County board. Kelly-Nash machine is the watershed for “consultative cooperation” in 1933 during which federal Democratic government was undertaking the New Deal Program. Being a chief staff in JFK’s presidential campaign, Richard J. Daley, who dominated the greatest machine monolith from 1955 to mid-1976, got along well with Democratic inner circles. Two judicial cases, Elrod v. Burns and Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois, strike the patronage practice in the government. The former constrained a government to fire a worker in a non-policy-making position on the sole ground of his political belief, while the latter ruled politically based hiring and promotions effectively deprived an individual of his or her First Amendment rights. In Chicago, the increase of black voter registration and the scattered power seized by different factions soon after Daley’s death constitute machine transition. Cater’s examination on citizen participation upon minority cause the decline of Chicago machine. Harold Washington is the product of backlash from black ethnicity. In 1989, Richard M. Daley started his mayor-centered machine; namely, he demands voters remain faithful to him, not the Democratic Cook County board.
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Herrera, Olga Lydia. "City of myth, muscle, and Mexicans : work, race, and space in twentieth-century Chicago literature." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3157.
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Chicago occupies a place in the American imagination as a city of industry and opportunity for those who are willing to hustle. Writers have in no small part contributed to the creation of this mythology; this canon includes Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, and Richard Wright. What is it about these authors that make them the classics of Chicago literature? The “essential” books of Chicago enshrine a period during which the city still held a prominent position in the national economy and culture, and embodied for Americans something of their own identity—the value of individualism, and the Protestant work ethic. Notably absent are the narratives from immigrants, particularly those of color: for a city that was a primary destination for the Great Migration of African Americans from the South and the concurrent immigration of Mexicans in the early part of the 20th century, it is remarkable that these stories have not gained significant attention, with the exception of Richard Wright’s.
This dissertation interrogates the discourse of ambition and labor in the Chicago literary tradition from the perspective of three Mexican American authors from Chicago—Carlos Cortez, Ana Castillo, and Sandra Cisneros. These authors, faced with late 20th century deindustrialization and the enduring legacy of segregation, engage with the canonical narratives of Chicago by addressing the intersections of race and citizenship as they affect urban space and labor opportunities. Rather than simply offering a critique, however, the Mexican American authors engage in a re-visioning of the city that incorporates the complexities of a fluid, transnational experience, and in doing so suggest the future of urban life in a post-industrial America.text
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McNicholas, Matthew T. "The relevance and transcendence of ornament a new public high school for the south side of Chicago /." 2006. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04202006-124411/.
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Loder, Angela. "Greening the City: Exploring Health, Well-being, Green Roofs, and the Perception of Nature in the Workplace." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33886.
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This five-paper thesis explores office workers perceptions of green roofs and how this influences their health/well-being in Toronto and Chicago. Paper 1 examines the underlying paradigms and world-views of major research programs that look at the human relationship to nature and health/well-being, showing that despite some convergence between their methods and integration of different paradigms, continued differences and lack of clarity on the normative assumptions underlying each approach leads to confusion in the specification of ‘nature’ in health/well-being and place research. Paper 2 is a comparative analysis of the implementation of green roof policies in Toronto and Chicago. Paper 2 demonstrates the importance of ‘selling’ green roofs by linking them to larger environmental programs and of the municipal power structure that influences how and if environmental programs are implemented. Paper 3 examines the awareness, attitudes, and feelings towards green roofs by office workers with access to them (visual or physical) from their workplace in Toronto and Chicago. Using a phenomenological analysis of semi-structured interviews (n=55), Paper 3 shows that the hinterland, expectations of different kinds of ‘nature’ and aesthetics in the city, and access all influence perceptions of green roofs and sense of place. Paper 4 explores office workers awareness of and attitudes towards green roofs and the possible influence on their well-being in Toronto and Chicago from a large survey (n = 903). Participants showed a high literacy on the environmental benefits of green roofs. Chi-square analysis showed mixed results for health, but a significant association between visual access to a green roof and improved concentration. Paper 5 tests whether the relationship found in Paper 4, improved concentration with visual access, was still significant when other confounding variables were added to the model. Using a logistic regression on the same survey population (subset n =505), results found that concentration was no longer significant but that there was a trend towards improved concentration.
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Zavala, Corina Raquel. "Crystal City women's reflections and stories of the Chicano movement in Crystal City, Texas." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/25039.
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Crystal City, Texas has been a part of the Chicano Movement narrative since the beginning. Crystal City High School like others across the United States held walkouts to protest the lack of respect for the Mexican American culture and for civil rights for Mexican Americans in schools. Crystal City is also the home to one of the original Raza Unida Parties. This rich history has placed Crystal City in a unique position in Chicano history. This study draws from Chicana Feminist epistemology, methodology, and scholarship to disrupt the meta-narrative that is and has been told of the Chicano Movement, and more specifically about Crystal City and its part in the Movement. By creating a counter narrative that is woman centered, this dissertation seeks to disrupt the binary of good/bad views of the Chicano Movement. This is done through the use of oral histories and testimonios of four women who were not directly in the spotlight of the Chicano Movement. This dissertation then briefly examines what stories our four women shared with their youngest child. This was done to investigate what the author has experienced with younger generations of Cristaleños. The experiences can best be described as disillusionment of the Chicano Movement. The major components of this dissertation are the stories the four participants share about the Chicano Movement in Crystal City, Texas. These stories are personal and touching in a way that showcases the use of Chicana Feminist methodology and disrupts the meta-narrative of the Chicano Movement and the binary of the views of the Movement.text
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Reinhart, Becky. "An analysis of the cultural function of three urban parks." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/8947.
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Moriello, Beckie. ""I'm feeksin' to move ..." Chicano English in Siler City, North Carolina /." 2003. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04032003-063623/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
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Hui-Pi, Hu, and 胡惠碧. "Influential Factors of Vegetable and Fruit Intake Behavior Among High School and Vocational High School Students in Ban-Chico City, Taipei County." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/h3662p.
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The purposes of this study were to realize vegetable and fruit intake behavior of 10th-12th graders, and examine the relationships between behavior and personal background factors, as well as knowledge and psychosocial factors. By stratified random sampling, 461 (97.26%) students were selected from high schools in Ban-Chico City. Data were collected with a self-administered questionnaire. One-way ANOVA, t-test, Pearson product-moment correlation, and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. The main findings of this study were as follows: 1. The subjects’ knowledge of vegetable and fruit was 70%. However, knowledge about the function of vegetable and fruit to human body was insufficient. 2. Family members were the main source of social support for vegetable and fruit intake, and classmates and teachers sometimes provided support. 3. Self-efficacy of vegetable and fruit intake was under 50％. The score of perceived barriers was average. Outcome expectancy of vegetable and fruit intake was good. 4. The frequency of vegetable and fruit intake among subjects was sometimes or frequently and the subjects ate more vegetables than fruit. 5. Vegetable and fruit intake behavior of those who were high school students, had better knowledge, social support, self-efficacy and outcome expectancy, was better than their counterpart. Those who perceived more barriers would eat less vegetables and fruit. 6. Personal background factors, knowledge and psychosocial factor could explain 36% variance of vegetable and fruit intake behavior. Self-efficacy and social support from family were two most important variables.