Author: Deborah L. MyersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Involving the Community in Neighborhood Planning
Author: Deborah L. MyersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Housing and Neighborhood Dynamics
Author: John F. KainPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674409309
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistance to low-income property owners in an attempt to arrest neighborhood decline and encourage revitalization. The authors used the Harvard Urban Development Simulation Model (HUDS) in evaluating these programs. HUDS, a large-scale computer model, represents the process of housing rehabilitation, the production and consumption of housing services, household moving decisions, and other determinant of neighborhood change. The model simulates the behavior of approximately 80,000 individual households in two hundred residential neighborhoods of various quality levels. Unlike more aggregate models of urban development, HUDS has the capacity to identify how specific housing policies affect individual households as well as particular neighborhoods. Since program evaluations are no better than the models on which they are based, the authors provide sufficient detail to permit those readers primarily interested in the policy analysis to assess the methodology and to understandhow the policies are represented in the model; a more technical discussion of the model is then presented in appendixes. Although the simulations focus on policies that induce central-city property owners to upgrade their properties and thus stimulate revitalization, many of the authors' findings are relevant to larger issues of urban development. For example, the analysis of how housing rehabilitation subsidies affect the investment behavior of nonsubsidized property owners provides insights about the link between initial upgrading and sustained neighborhood improvement. The analysis also demonstrates how differences in location, household, and housing stock characteristics affect a particular neighborhood's responsiveness to a common policy initiative.
The Neighborhood Project
Author: David Sloan WilsonPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316175250
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
After decades studying creatures great and small, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson had an epiphany: Darwin's theory won't fully prove itself until it improves the quality of human life in a practical sense. And what better place to begin than his hometown of Binghamton, New York? Making a difference in his own city would provide a model for cities everywhere, which have become the habitat for over half of the people on earth. Inspired to become an agent of change, Wilson descended on Binghamton with a scientist's eye and looked at its toughest questions, such as how to empower neighborhoods and how best to teach our children. He combined the latest research methods from experimental economics with studies of holiday decorations and garage sales. Drawing upon examples from nature as diverse as water striders, wasps, and crows, Wilson's scientific odyssey took him around the world, from a cave in southern Africa that preserved the dawn of human culture to the Vatican in Rome. Along the way, he spoke with dozens of fellow scientists, whose stories he relates along with his own. Wilson's remarkable findings help us to understand how we must become wise managers of evolutionary processes to accomplish positive change at all scales, from effective therapies for individuals, to empowering neighborhoods, to regulating the worldwide economy. With an ambitious scope that spans biology, sociology, religion, and economics, The Neighborhood Project is a memoir, a practical handbook for improving the quality of life, and an exploration of the big questions long pondered by religious sages, philosophers, and storytellers. Approaching the same questions from an evolutionary perspective shows, as never before, how places define us.
Catalog of Federal Programs for Individual and Community Improvement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 2286
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Reading, Near Northwest Neighborhood Improvement
Author: Neighborhood Revitalization
Author: Roger S. AhlbrandtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Neighborhood Knowledge for Change
Author: Steve CostaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781893790087
Category : Environmental indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This innovative report uses neighborhood-level indicators to draw links between West Oaklandís pollution and its political, economic, and social state.
The States and Distressed Communities
Author: U.S. Community Improvement Appraisal
Author: National Appraisal Committee (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
U. S. Community Improvement Appraisal
Author: National Appraisal CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States National Appraisal committee
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description