Author: Anchorage (Alaska). Campbell Tract Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Far North Bicentennial Park (Anchorage, Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Campbell Tract Task Force, Citizens' Committee Planning Report
Author: Anchorage (Alaska). Campbell Tract Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Far North Bicentennial Park (Anchorage, Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Report of the General Plan Citizens' Committee
Author: Charleston in Black and White
Author: Steve EstesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469622335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segregation. By the 1970s, the legal structures behind these racial divisions had broken down and the wealth built upon them faded. Like many southern cities, Charleston had to construct a new public image. In this important book, Steve Estes chronicles the rise and fall of black political empowerment and examines the ways Charleston responded to the civil rights movement, embracing some changes and resisting others. Based on detailed archival research and more than fifty oral history interviews, Charleston in Black and White addresses the complex roles played not only by race but also by politics, labor relations, criminal justice, education, religion, tourism, economics, and the military in shaping a modern southern city. Despite the advances and opportunities that have come to the city since the 1960s, Charleston (like much of the South) has not fully reckoned with its troubled racial past, which still influences the present and will continue to shape the future.
Report of Task Force 12 on the District 12 Plan
Author: North York (Ont.). Task Force 12Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizens' associations
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Report of the Citizens Advisory Committee on the Plan for the Central Area
Author: Williamsburg (Va.). Citizens Advisory Committee on the Plan for the Central AreaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Report of the Task Force to Study the State Plan of Conservation and Development and Local and Regional Land Use Planning
Author: Connecticut. Task Force to Study the State Plan of Conservation and Development and Local and Regional Land Use PlanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Communities in Action
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
A Failure of Initiative
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane KatrinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Washington Report
Author: Urban Agriculture
Author: Kimberley HodgsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781932364910
Category : Sustainable agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Urban agriculture is rising steadily in popularity in the United States and Canada - there are stories in the popular press, it has an increasingly central place in the growing local food movement, and there is a palpable interest in changing cities to foster both healthier residents and more sustainable communities. The most popular form of urban agriculture, community gardening, contributes significantly to developing social connections, building capacity, and empowering communities in urban neighborhoods. Older, industrial cities such as Cleveland, Detroit, and Buffalo, with their drastic loss of population and their acres of vacant land, are emerging as centers for urban agriculture initiatives - in essence, becoming laboratories for the future role of urban food production in the postindustrial city. Because urban agriculture entails the use of urban land, it has implications for urban land-use planning, which is controlled and regulated by municipal governments and planning agencies. This PAS Report provides authoritative guidance for dealing with the implications of this cutting-edge practice that is changing our cities forever.