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Category : Urban policy
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
CURA Reporter
Author: CURA Reporter
Author: CURA Update
Author: University of Minnesota. Center for Urban and Regional AffairsPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Complete List of CURA Reporter Articles
Author: CURA Reporter
Author: CURA Reporter. Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2007
Author: Michael D. Greco (Ed)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The "CURA Reporter" is published quarterly to provide information about the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), an all-University applied research and technical assistance center at the University of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on significant public policy issues in Minnesota. Items in this issue include: (1) Engaging the Northside Community: CURA and the University Northside Partnership (Thomas M. Scott and Kris S. Nelson); (2) Open House for Community-University Partnerships April 11; (3) Home Visiting At-Risk Families: The Dakota Healthy Families Program (Gay Bakken); (4) What Happens after Environmental Review? A Review of the Implementation of AUAR Mitigation (Carissa Schively); (5) Project Funding Available from CURA; (6) Searching for the Sources of Error in Child Protection: When We Make Errors, Why Are They So Hard to Correct? (Esther Wattenberg); (7) Would Reductions in Class Size Raise Minnesota Students' Test Scores? Evidence from Minnesota's Elementary Schools (Hyunkuk Cho, Paul Glewwe, and Melissa Whitler); and (8) Lectures on Emerging Issues in Soil and Water April 12.
The Complete List of CURA Publications
Author: The Rural Landscape
Author: John Fraser HartPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801870275
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From the acclaimed landscape historian and geographer, a comprehensive handbook to understanding the elements that make up the rural landscape. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In this book, John Fraser Hart offers a comprehensive handbook to understanding the elements that make up the rural landscape—those regions that lie at or beyond the fringes of modern metropolitan life. Though the last two centuries have seen an inversion in the portion of people living on farms to those in cities, the land still beckons, whether traversed in a car or train, scanned from far above, or as the locus of our food supply or leisure. The Rural Landscape provides a deceptively simple method for approaching the often complex and variegated shape of the land. Hart divides it into its mineral, vegetable, and animal components and shows how each are interdependent, using examples from across Europe and America. Looking at the land forms of southern England, for instance, he comments on the use of hedgerows to divide fields, the mineral or geomorphological features of the land determining where hedgerows will grow in service of the human animal's needs. Hart reveals the impact on the land of human culture and the basic imperative of making a living as well as the evolution of technical skills toward that end (as seen in the advance of barbed wire as a function of modern transportation). Hart describes with equal clarity the erosion of land to form river basins and the workings of a coal mine. He charts shifting patterns of crop rotation, from the medieval rota of food (wheat or rye), feed (barley or oats), and fallow (to restore the land) to modern two-crop cycle of corn and soybeans, made possible by fertilizers and pesticides. He comments on traditions of land division (it is almost impossible to find a straight line on a map of Europe) and inventories a variety of farm structures (from hop yards and oast houses to the use of dikes for irrigation). He identifies the relict features of the landscape—from low earthen terraces once used in the southern United States to prevent erosion to old bank buildings that have become taverns and barns turned into human homes. Carrying the story of the rural landscape into our frantic era, he describes the "bow wave"where city life meets rural agriculture and plots the effect of recreation and its structures on the look of the land.
Clearing the Way
Author: Edward Glenn GoetzPublisher: The Urban Insitute
ISBN: 9780877667124
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A study of what happens when abstract planning concepts meet the contingencies of politics, culture, and resource competition within real human communities. Includes discussion of the lawsuit of Hollman v. Cisneros.
The One-Way Street of Integration
Author: Edward G. GoetzPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716697
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Goetz traces the tensions involved in housing integration and policy to show why he doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities. The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.