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Asaad, Lama. "La nature en ville et le cas spécifique des jardins urbains : approche géographique et historique de la ville de Lyon et de son agglomération." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2116/document.

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Cette thèse est consacrée à l’évolution de la notion de jardin collectif et de leur place dans la ville. Elle s’appuie tout d’abord sur une mise en perspective historico-géographique de la notion de jardin dans le bassin méditerranéen, entre orient et occident, de l’antiquité à nos jours. La notion de jardin a pris, en effet, au cours du temps des acceptions très différentes, jardins nourriciers ou jardins d’agréments, mais aussi jardins privés, jardins publics et jardins collectifs. Nous resserrons ensuite notre approche sur les jardins collectifs, jardins ouvriers, jardins familiaux et aujourd’hui jardins partagés. Pour cela nous focalisons notre recherche sur l’agglomération lyonnaise de la fin du 19ème siècle à nos jours. Cette analyse historico-géographique s’appuie à la fois sur un travail d’archives et sur une cartographie des jardins. Pour associer, profondeur historique et approche spatiale, nous interrogeons les facteurs historiques, politiques, démographiques, économiques et sociaux qui, durant cette période, se révèlent déterminants dans la localisation et les usages des jardins collectifs. Cette analyse des dynamiques spatiales de création de jardins tout au long du 20ème siècle, reflète l’évolution de leur place et de leurs fonctions dans la ville. Ceci nous permet de révéler à la fois des valeurs et des fonctions attribuées aux jardins qui ont une forte stabilité dans le temps, alors que d’autres renvoient à des conceptions et à des préoccupations historiquement comme géographiquement situées. Pour cela, nous attachons une attention particulière à resituer la question des jardins collectifs dans les transformations des politiques urbaines, avec pour la période récente la montée en puissance des préoccupations liées au développement durable et à la place de la nature en ville
This PhD thesis deals with the evolution of the notion of collective garden and their place and functions in the city. Firstly, on the basis of an historical and geographical perspective, it provides a background of the notion of garden in the Mediterranean area, between East and West, from the ancient world to the modern day. The concept of garden has taken over time very different meanings, food-producing garden or pleasure garden, but also private gardens, public and community gardens.Then our approach focuses on collective gardens, namely workers' gardens, family gardens and community gardens. Our research focuses on the city of Lyon and its metropolitan area from the late 19th century to today. This historical and geographical analysis is based on both an archival work and a cartographic approach. To mix historical depth and spatial approach we inquire about the historical, political, demographic, economic and social factors that determine the location and the uses of collective gardens. This analysis of the spatial dynamics throughout the twentieth century reflects the evolution of their place and their functions in the city. This allows us to identify the values and functions of collective gardens that have a high stability over time, while others refer to conceptions and concerns which are historically and geographically situated. We thus pay particular attention to place the issue of community gardens in transformations of urban policies, characterized for the recent period by the increasing influence of sustainable development concerns and emerging issues on the place of nature in cities
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Shchory, Nili. "Community involvement in urban development." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250004.

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The research deals with the development of participatory municipal democracy, with inter-communal relations, and with the relations between communities and the urban establishment regarding urban development in towns. The study analyses and examine the processes in which residents, members of a geographical community whose borders overlap the residential units in a town, and who are not elected or appointed by the authorities, can influence decisions relating to the policy, planning, and design of a town's urban space. Part I - Chapter 1 presents an overview of the paper. Chapter 2 positions the context of the research in the space and time in which Israeli society and its urban fabric have developed. Part II - presents the methodology and methods of the research. In Chapter 3, the theoretical framework of the study discusses issues like the geographical community, relation between civil society and the state, and new social, urban, and physical realities in a community. Chapter 4 presents the research objectives, the research questions, and the method of data collection applied in the study, such as the questionnaires administered to 73 heads of local authorities throughout Israel; questionnaires administered to 243 residents; interviews with some 20 experts and 11 players in the case-study analysis of 16 events of communal involvement that took place in 14 different local authorities; text analyses, and an analysis of urban plans. Part ill - presents in Chapter 5 a review of the field and general background of the Issue. Part IV - presents the current social context in Israel. Chapter 6 describes actual changes and events that influenced the issue, while Chapter 7 outlines the characteristics of community involvement. Part V - the case-study of Mevasseret Ziyyon is presented - displaying social action in urban development, with an analysis of community involvement and conflict in city planning. Chapter 8 provides the story of the place and the master-plan in conflict;Chapter 9 presents the context of the conflict. Chapter 10 presents the practical dimensions and dynamic of the conflict. Chapter 11 describes the dimension of human influence, and Chapter 12 shows the symbolic dimension of values, events, and interpretation of the community and establishment. Part VI - sets out the conclusions of the research. Chapter 13 presents the finding of the research, Chapter 14 the discussion while Chapter 15 the contribution of the study. The main fmdings show that, despite the importance attributed by the community and the establishment to communal involvement in urban development, there is a gap between the reality and what is aspired to. There is disparity between the declaration made by the mayors regarding the importance of community involvement, and what they actually do in this context. The civil culture of the community is not sufficiently developed and only a minority of the community residents (15%) is in fact involved. Community involvement takes place in two polar patterns of activity: conflict from 'below' when the community objects to the establishment, and cooperation from 'above' with the establishment. Cooperation was found to be the more successful optiol1.' At the community level, during a conflict about the master-plan of Mevasseret Ziyyon, the members of the elite the residing in the community appear to be at an advantage, due to their ability to recruit knowledge and information, and also because of their understanding of the 'language' of urban planning, in designing and planning space in a manner that accords with their values, beliefs and needs. The study can be seen from two points of view. The first, which relates to the construction of social reality, deals with the development of urban participatory democracy, and addresses issues such as education for democracy and active citizenship, and a fair dialogue with the community in terms of quality of life and the environment. The second relates to the construction of a physical reality, and deals with the design and plarming of the environment. It relates to issues such as learning and understanding interpretations of urban space, the design thereof, how the city will look, who will live in it and how, and what sense of place and quality of life those people will have.
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Yeung, Chi-keung Patrick. "Transient neighborhoods and urban development." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13117257.

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Ware, Bridget Letticè. "Banking on the future : the role of bank community development corporations in community development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78092.

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Goodman, Elisha R. (Elisha Renee). "Aquaponics : community and economic development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67227.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100).
This thesis provides a cash flow analysis of an aquaponics system growing tilapia, perch, and lettuce in a temperate climate utilizing data collected via a case study of an aquaponics operation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Literature regarding the financial feasibility of aquaponics as a business is scant. This thesis determines that in temperate climates, tilapia and vegetable sales or, alternatively, yellow perch and vegetable sales are insufficient sources of revenue for this aquaponics system to offset regular costs when grown in small quantities and when operated as a stand-alone for-profit business. However, it is possible to reach economies of scale and to attain profitability with a yellow perch and lettuce system. Moreover, there may be ways to increase the margin of profitability or to close the gap between income and expense through such things as alternative business models, value adding, procuring things for free, and diversifying revenue streams. Any organization or individual considering an aquaponics operation should conduct careful analysis and planning to determine if profitability is possible and to understand, in the instance that an aquaponics operation is not profitable, if the community and economic development benefits of the system outweigh the costs. Keywords: aquaponics, fish, tilapia, perch, lettuce, farming, closed-loop systems, community development, economic development, cash flow analysis, sustainability, economic viability, hydroponics, recirculating aquaculture systems, integrated aquaculture, integrated agriculture, worker-owned cooperatives, agroecology.
by Elisha R. Goodman.
M.C.P.
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Brown, Michael C. "Community voices : participatory communication for community development in Nepal's urban settings." Thesis, University of Derby, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298259.

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Davis, Christopher. "Babylon reconsidered community development through rooftop urban agriculture /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1179348306.

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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 17, 2007.) Keywords: urban; agriculture; poverty; sustainability; gentrification; historic preservation; community; development; green roof; rooftop; urbanism; food security Includes bibliographical references.
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Stone, Greg. "Visual Ethnography for Community Participation in Urban Development." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-201902.

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The purpose of this study is to assess how inhabitants of the Lidköping community value or perceive their surrounding in relation to urban planning, specifically the new Hamnstaden urban development. This perception was collected as data mainly through photos, conceived here as visual ethnography, combined with written responses. As the trend of urbanization continues to grow around the world, who or what is determining how cities are built? What elements of our urban environments do we value, and how do we measure these values? Many of the current trends with urban development are inconsistent with sustainable development and new perspectives on the construction of our cities are required to make cities more sustainable. This research uses a qualitative research approach in a case study in an urban development project in Lidköping to attempt to address some of these questions. The results are very diverse, but the highest-valued elements according to the participants were green space, old buildings, pedestrian space, public art, and cafes.
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DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER. "BABYLON RECONSIDERED: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ROOFTOP URBAN AGRICULTURE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179348306.

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Yeung, Chi-keung Patrick, and 楊志強. "Transient neighborhoods and urban development." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31976827.

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Leonard, J. Rebecca. "Growing community through community gardens : guidelines for using community gardens as a tool for building community." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041805.

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This creative project has determined that community gardening is a vehicle for building community. The benefits for community gardens are observed by the individuals that garden, the neighborhoods that support community gardening, as well as, the cities in which these gardens flourish. This research aided the Blaine Southeast Neighborhood Association in developing and evaluating a new community gardening program designed for the Blaine Southeast Neighborhood and Muncie, Indiana. The literature review discusses the history and the benefits of community gardening which builds a strong case for groups interested in beginning a community gardening program. The guidelines developed for this research provide the framework for developing a successful community gardening program. The programs then use the criteria set forth in this research to evaluate the success the program is experiencing at reaching the goals of the program. Community Gardening is an appropriate activity for most urban communities that are experiencing a decline in the quality of their neighborhoods. This research supports this statement and demonstrates how to form a community garden successfully.
Department of Urban Planning
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Wang, Hua M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Strategies for retirement community development in China." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37476.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).
In 2000, China's 60-year-and-older population reached 130 million, or 10% of the total population. This event symbolizes that China has entered the aging society. In the Chinese tradition, strong family support enables older Chinese to live with their children and age at home. The One Child Policy implemented in the 1970's will change the way families care for their older parents. This paper investigates the alternative living arrangements in China such as the institutions for the elderly, community support, and the master planned retirement communities. The strength and weakness of each living arrangement is highlighted. Suggestions of a three-tiered system are made. Care is given to living arrangements that enable inter-generational contact and support, flexibility, and affordability.
by Hua Wang.
M.C.P.
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Lowndes, Theresa Maria. "Privatisation, rural railways and community development." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2178.

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This thesis examines two separate, but interrelated, issues, namely rail privatisation and rural dependency on the availability of rail transport. The thesis was based on the proposition that rural accessibility permits the development and sustainability of the social and economic lives of a community and that this interrelationship is currently threatened by rail privatisation and the associated risks of line closures or service cutbacks. To test this proposition a thorough investigation into the theory and practice of privatisation was completed, together with a comprehensive survey of the travel arrangements of people living in rural communities served by branch line railways. A variety of research methods were employed, including desk-top studies involving literature searches, qualitative investigations to assist questionnaire design and the use of self-administered questionnaires by sample populations. The empirical results are presented and discussed against the background of introductory chapters which review the policy of privatisation, the evolution of rail privatisation and the role of the rural branch line. The concluding chapters present three different scenarios for the future of rural branch lines, ranging from closure to revitalisation, and outline areas where future research may be carried out. The main findings were that a substantial number of people depend on the branch lines to enable them to carry out a wide variety of journeys and it was concluded that branch line railways do indeed play a vital role in the development and sustainability of the rural community. Furthermore, it was concluded that rail privatisation may indeed pose a threat to the future provision of branch line services and as such could have far-reaching impacts on the future well-being of the rural community.
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Chau, Chiu-fai Fiona. "Urban regeneration in Hong Kong a neighbourhood revitalisation case study in Sham Shui Po district /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42577160.

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TerMaat, Richard J. "Community empowerment through economic development." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Butler, Elizabeth A. "Community involvement and economic reality a case study of the community and economic revitalization of Allentown /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1997. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1997.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2935. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves 2-3. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-131).
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Silberberg, Hattie Paige. "Lasting social impact : Community Development Venture Capital investing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44337.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-121).
Community Development Venture Capital Funds (CDVC) funds are an emerging group of Community Development Financial Institutions, that make equity investments in businesses in economically distressed areas. As equity investors, CDVC funds, like mainstream VC funds, exit investments to generate financial returns. Unlike mainstream VC investors, they also seek social returns. Social returns are continuous throughout the investment cycle, and in ideal CDVC investments continue after the CDVC exits from an investment. This thesis examines CDVC investments, focusing on the the point of investment exit. At the exit, this thesis asks the questions: What happens to social value? Is there lasting social impact for CDVC investments? What aspects of CDVC investments contribute to lasting social impacts? To answer these questions this thesis explores pre-exit and post-exit financial and social conditions of five companies financed by three CDVC funds. These companies are in different industries and geographies, but studied in aggregate they demonstrate that three factors can greatly influence lasting social impact. First, a CDVC fund's investment choice to invest in a business whose value is dependent upon employees, a specific location, or a unique management team. Second, CDVC fund assistance to expand employee benefits, including improved job training and profit sharing, can increase the wealth and earning capacity of low-income employees. Third, the structure and type of an exit.
(cont) This final factor is both influenced by how a CDVC fund markets a business, and how a new owner or new investor values a business, at the exit. In presenting these factors, this thesis concludes that CDVC funds are true double bottom line investors, and can motivate sustainable social impact alongside generating financial returns for investors.
by Hattie Paige Silberberg.
M.C.P.
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Hechesky, Lisa. "Return to main street an assessment of the Main Street Revitalization Program /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2005. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=548.

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Marx, Naashom Nicole. "Urban Hiking Guides: A tool for asset-based community development." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1214869924.

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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.
Advisors: Chris Auffrey PhD (Committee Chair), Carla Chifos PhD (Committee Member). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Apr. 15, 2010). Includes abstract. Keywords: Urban; hiking; walkability; asset-based; community; development; trails. Includes bibliographical references.
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Hulett, Steven T. (Steven Todd). "Revitalizing employment training--community development corporations and training policy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67412.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
Title as it appears in the June, 1990 MIT Graduate List: Enlisting local accountability--community development corporations and employment training policy.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-96).
by Steven T. Hulett.
M.C.P.
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Armstead, Ron E. "Black veterans--organizing & organizational strategies for community development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12407.

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McDowell, Christopher. "Competition for the urban poor : urban community development (Crossroads) : the complexities of giving and receiving." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22434.

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Black people in South Africa have been the targets - or victims - of massive development intervention by successive South African governments. And in more recent years urbanised Africans in particular have been the targets of increasing levels of development intervention, much of which has been funded and directed through bilateral aid programmes initiated by western governments. It is with those kinds of development intervention that this thesis is concerned. Research, conducted during 1989 and 1990, examined a slice of development activity occurring in an African urban area during what is becoming a period of transition from South Africa's effective isolation to the beginning of its reincorporation into the world "development system".
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Bhatta, Kishan Datta. "Urban heritage conservation promoting sustainable community development : a case of historic town Thimi, Nepal /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/.

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GELTER, ADAM M. "EXPLORING THE SPECTRUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES: A TYPOLOGY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MODELS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148062398.

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Ramsey, Ann Woodson. "Piety in Paris during the league 1585-1590 : an urban community in transition /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : University microfilms international, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37167290s.

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Wilson, Anne Baron. "Community economic development in Boston : the challenge of the eighties." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78795.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Bibliography: leaves 123-125.
by Anne Baron Wilson.
M.C.P.
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Weiner, Joel Laevin. "Recycling and economic development : a plan for a community venture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70692.

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González, Antonio Francisco 1975. "Building partnerships : public schools as a catalysts for community development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8524.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-78).
A profile of urban public schools in the United States reveals under-utilized, outdated buildings set in a neighborhood with little or no ties to the surrounding community. A rising trend in urban school reform models is the community school concept where schools serve as centers of communities. These schools are open throughout the year and include a diverse set of programs to enrich the learning experience. They can also provide adult learning opportunities in the evenings and health services for students and their families. The key to providing programs such as these is through the creation of partnerships with surrounding institutions. This thesis discusses three case studies of community schools in Paterson, New Jersey, Brooklyn, New York, and New York City and applies the lessons learned from these schools to the redevelopment of a former Catholic school into a public school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The school district, Lawrence Public Schools, and a grassroots community development corporation, Lawrence Community Works, are identified as the two key partners in this project. This partnership forms the core of a leadership team responsible for creating a community school in the North Common neighborhood in Lawrence. Recommendations are made for other potential partnerships and key challenges for the two main partners are identified.
by Antonio Francisco González.
M.C.P.
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Greenberg, David Micah 1972. "Ways of contending : community organizing and development in neighborhood context." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28787.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.
"September 2004."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-184).
This thesis explores community organizing by Community Development Corporations (CDCs), the different outcomes achieved by organizing campaigns, and the factors that contribute to their successes and failures. Among organizing outcomes, I focus not only on policy victories and physical or economic improvements to communities, but also on the ways that collective action produces changes in local political institutions. Using rich qualitative and extensive quantitative data from organizing campaigns by ten CDCs, I show how claims about the role of racial and ethnic difference in community, and about the need for conflict in creating community change, find acceptance or resistance from political institutions. While institutional resistance to a campaign's claims about community makes it more difficult for campaigns to succeed, this resistance also indicates the possibility that successful organizing will enact changes to local institutions. I find that CDCs won campaigns (and with success, enacted some type of impact on political institutions) by coordinating mobilization throughout their activities and departments, and by including activists in governance and decision-making.
by David Micah Greenberg.
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Acosta, Daniel Anthony. "Beyond community participation--Hispanic political and leadership development in Massachusetts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62901.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
Vita.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-80).
by Daniel Anthony Acosta.
M.C.P.
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Forman, Benjamin. "Bridge building : afterschool activities, youth social networks, and community development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17680.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.
"June 2004."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-105).
In recent years, U.S. cities have dramatically increased funding for afterschool activities. These afterschool programs may contribute to community development by expanding social networks, providing new channels for the flow of information and resources to low income neighborhoods. Drawing on research and literature from the fields of sociology, political science and adolescent development, I develop an argument for this hypothesis. The theory is tested using both qualitative data collected from interviews at three case study sites, and quantitative data from surveys distributed to afterschool youth programs in the Boston area. I find that afterschool programs build both bridging and bonding social capital by increasing local and extra-local connections between adolescents and adults, peers, and parents. Policy recommendations designed to increase the social network impact of afterschool programming are provided.
by Benjamin Forman.
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Bullock, Virginia G. (Virginia Grace). "Philanthropic support for community economic development : emerging strategies for Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64869.

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Caulfield, Michelle 1969. "Incremental power : the nexus between information technologies and community development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65064.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.
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In today's postindustrial society, considering connections between power, knowledge, and information is fundamental to promoting democracy and equity. This thesis examines current and potential uses of information technologies in community development work. It argues that while these technologies are vital to developing and implementing sound policy, they are also valuable tools for fostering greater community dialogue, encouraging broad collaboration, and building community capacity to effect sustained positive change. Research is specifically designed to inform a nascent university-community partnership between the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Lawrence CommunityWorks, Inc., a community development corporation in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The goal of this multiyear partnership is to design, implement, and evaluate a neighborhood information system (NIS) as a strategy for empowering residents and supporting community development efforts in Lawrence. The approach of the thesis is to provide a theoretical and practical framework for this investigation. Technological advances, the devolution of social policy down to local agencies, and comprehensive community building efforts underscore the importance of information technologies in planning, organizing, and advocating for neighborhood change. Furthermore, the ability of citizens to access and use data and technology is fundamental to community empowerment. Quantitative and qualitative research methods are used to evaluate existing NIS and to document and inform the work in Lawrence. Findings suggest that while traditional NIS systems add value to public policy by providing access to reliable data, these systems fall short of building information literacy and technological fluency within neighborhoods. Citizen involvement, information and technology training, cross-cutting collaborations, and public agency partners are critical for successful and sustainable community-based technology projects. Recommendations for the Lawrence partnership emphasize the use of information technologies to support a network of formal and informal capacity building of residents, community leaders, community-based organizations, and institutions. Furthermore, given the widespread interest in the using information technologies to empower citizens, additional research into metrics and indicators of community capacity and community power is needed.
by Michelle Caulfield.
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Duenes, Laura. "Community development lending : case studies of commercial bank lending programs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73308.

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Title as it appeared in M.I.T. Graduate List, June 1989: The role of private lenders in financing community economic development.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-55).
by Laura Duenes.
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Redd, David Allen. "Yoruba migrants : a study of rural-urban linkages and community development." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ50561.pdf.

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Holzberg, Jenna. "West Tampa : economic development and community engagement within an urban neighborhood." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001834.

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Niedbala, Steven Alexander. "Building the Post-industrial Community : New Urbanist Development in Pittsburgh, PA." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1479892713713989.

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Meehan, Angela Elizabeth. "Community in the garden in the community : the development of an open space resource in Boston's South End." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40127.

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Now a permanently protected type of open space, the community gardens in Boston's South End began in the early 1970's as an effort to utilize vacant land in what was a predominantly low-income neighborhood. Since then, the South End has experienced steady gentrification and is now one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Boston. Despite these changes, the South End, due in part to its substantial supply of subsidized housing, has retained residents with a mix of income levels and is a neighborhood that is still known for its diversity. Much of the previous literature on the role and value of community gardens has focused primarily on low-income communities, and there has been little research on community gardens in gentrifying or similarly changing neighborhoods. The South End, therefore, is an ideal arena in which to investigate the past development and present-day role of community gardens in a changing neighborhood. This thesis examines the role of the South End's community gardens both as places in and of themselves and as part of the larger urban landscape and community.
(cont.) By taking the perspective of the community in the garden and the garden in the community, the study explores both the dynamics of the smaller communities within the gardens and their role as a unique type of open space in the larger neighborhood and community that surrounds them. Through in-depth interviews as well as archival and observational methods, it traces the historical development of a community garden movement in the South End and also examines the specific present-day dynamics of two case study gardens. The research finds that these community gardens reflect the qualities and dynamics of the surrounding neighborhood, both in terms of its positive diversity as well as its conflicts and tensions. Furthermore, community gardens are places where these qualities are uniquely engaged through the interaction of people of different backgrounds by means of their common interest in gardening. Finally, the community gardens hold unique value for non-gardeners both as open space and as gardens, and provide lessons for the potential benefits of developing and maintaining new community gardens elsewhere.
by Angela Elizabeth Meehan.
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Longtin, Ariel G. "Rurban architecture a new formbook for Detroit /." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Graham, Leigh Taylor. "Planning Tremé : the community development field in a post-Katrina world." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62072.

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A Network of community development (CD) organizations in New Orleans and nationwide collectively framed Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as the result of willful government failure to protect an original American city and its most vulnerable residents. They saw their efforts to equitably redevelop the city as seeding a renewed social movement for economic and racial justice that would result in the self-determination of local low-income communities of color. This interpretation built on their shared activist histories, especially the movement origins of the CD field that championed the self-determination of low-income urban African-American and Latino neighborhoods. Yet, chronic tension within CD between the field's enduring movement aims and its institutionalized practices emphasizing housing production seriously constrained the Network's efforts. By late 2006, Network organizations had split apart over the future of New Orleans public housing. This dissertation is an in-depth case study of the first 15 months after Katrina that uses participant-observation to explore this tension and its implications for the movement possibilities of the CD field. I argue that there are three mechanisms of institutionalization that stratify the field and constrain its movement aims: a) the marketization of community development, b) the reformation of poverty, and c) the radicalization of community organizing repertoires. In New Orleans, these three mechanisms combined with intense civil society conflict, the roll-out of neoliberal deconcentration policy, a weak local political economy, and competing cultural repertoires within the Network to undermine collective action. Institutionalized race and class inequalities were reproduced within the Network and urban space. When the federal government proposed to demolish 70% of the city's public housing, one Network cohort agreed to redevelop the Lafitte projects while another filed a resident class action lawsuit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Lafitte redevelopment cohort came to control a substantial portion of land in Tremé/Lafitte and the resident participation process in redevelopment. Resident participation was a narrowly construed process of site planning, especially compared to principles of resident participation enshrined in neighborhood recovery planning serving mostly middle-class New Orleanians. This unanticipated Network polarization proved instructive. Economic human rights and equitable development activism has grown out of the Network and the Gulf Coast. This suggests Page 2 of 271 possibilities for movement renewal in the institutionalized community development field, particularly by re-appropriating the mechanisms of marketization, poverty reform, and the radicalization of community organizing. Community development's incorporation into the neoliberal political economy has opened up spaces for political resistance by practitioners working within the system. A new discourse of economic human rights points to a reorientation of the field around low-income residents' right to the city. Finally, community organizing can be reintegrated into CD, beginning with internal organizing processes as a means to develop a new theory of power to transcend historical institutional distrust within the sector.
by Leigh Taylor Graham.
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Solomon, Ann DeMoss. "Capital for communities : connecting community development loan funds to individual investors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67240.

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Community development loan funds (CDLFs) play a critical role in financing affordable housing, small businesses, and non-profit organizations in low-income communities throughout the US. Since the 2008 financial crisis disrupted CDLFs' primary sources of capital-banks and foundations-many CDLFs have been pursuing new sources. During these years of economic recession, individuals' confidence in the financial system declined while the Socially Responsible Investing and Impact Investing sectors experienced significant growth. With these concurrent trends as a starting point, this thesis explores the potential for socially-minded individuals to become a more substantial source of capital for CDLFs. Using case studies of two organizations with successful individual investor programs- Boston Community Capital (BCC) and Calvert Foundation-my research examines the costs and benefits of individuals as a source of capital. Specifically, I study BCC's local capital raising for its Boston Community Loan Fund and newer Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods Initiative and Calvert Foundation's Community Investment Note, a retail product available to individuals nationwide. My research analyzes the advantages and shortcomings of these differing approaches, assesses the viability of replicating each model, and makes recommendations for scaling up individual investing in CDLFs.
by Ann DeMoss Solomon.
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Lipow, Hershel. "Enterprising community development corporations--nonprofit housing innovation in metropolitan Washington, D.C." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79957.

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Title as it appears in the Sept. 1990 M.I.T. Graduate List: Enterprising community development corporations--non-profit housing innovation in metropolitan Washington, D.C.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-150).
by Hershel S. Lipow.
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Stevens, Rebecca. "Mortgage lending by limited-income credit unions : community development or not?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14965.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
Title as it appeared in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate List, June 1987: Mortgage lending by credit unions in low-income neighborhoods: patterns and implications.
Bibliography: leaves 39-40.
by Rebecca Stevens.
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Haque, Shoma S. "An analysis of the impact of mergers between community development corporations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33410.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.
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This thesis explores the occurrence of mergers between community development corporations (CDC's) in the United States in the past five years. The research examines how mergers between CDC's affect their capacity to achieve their mission and serve their constituents. In addition, the author explores the drivers behind CDC mergers, the impacts from those mergers, and the factors that contribute to merger success. There is currently limited data and literature on CDC and non-profit mergers. This paper uses three case studies of mergers between CDC's to explore how and to what extent CDC capacities changed, as a result of the merger. A CDC capacity framework created by Glickman and Servon (1997) is operationalized and applied to each case study to analyze the capacity changes. The results from the case studies and review of the literature show that CDC's can likely benefit the most from a growth in programmatic capacity as a result of a merger.
by Shoma S. Haque.
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Deora, Amy (Amy Carter). "Inner city shopping centers : national development trends and local community impacts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37861.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-96).
Within the past ten years, there has been increasing interest in bringing retail back into inner-city neighborhoods as a commercial revitalization and economic development strategy. In this thesis, a large data set of all US shopping centers is analyzed to examine general trends in shopping center development, as well as trends in inner-city shopping center development over time. This research showed that inner-city centers are fairly similar to those in other parts of the MSA, although they are smaller, denser, and house a slightly different profile of retailers. During the 1980s, shopping center development in the inner city increased along with development in the rest of the metro area. As the overall market for shopping center development declined in the 1990s, inner-city development has declined even more sharply. And, while there is a major trend in the rest of the metropolitan area toward increasing renovation, expansion, and redevelopment of older centers, shopping centers in the inner city are not experiencing this surge of re-investment.
(cont.) This thesis also examines the case for economic development through shopping center development, and explores the local community impacts of shopping center development through brief case studies of three inner-city shopping center projects in Houston, Boston, and Baltimore, with the goal of presenting how successful projects came about, why they were attractive to potential tenants, and what their impact was on the neighborhood.
by Amy Deora.
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Wan, Ngai-teck Alice. "The accountability of a non-government organisation : an analysis of a neighbourhood level community development project /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17507996.

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Nieves, Ramon Luis. "Community development, an educational and practical approach." Chicago, Ill : McCormick Theological Seminary, 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Koechlin, Carl. "Integrating compassion and pragmatism in a successful community development strategy : a case study of New Community Corp., Newark, N.J." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14455.

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Bal, Sucheta. "Urban Agriculture / Community Gardening: Starting and Maintaining Successful Programs." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1242870589.

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Advisor: Carla Chifos. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 29, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: urban agriculture; community gardening; community development; best practices; programming. Includes bibliographical references.
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Mahmood, Mohammad Afzal. "Local organisational and socio-political characteristics in urban community health system development /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm2148.pdf.

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