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ACCESS Magazine Spring 2003

Cervero, Robert; Gottlieb, Robert; Hall, Peter V.; … - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2003

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Trajectories for the Immigrant Second Generation in New York City

Mollenkopf, John - University of the State of New York <Albany, NY> - 2005

It has become a truism to say that immigration hastransformed American society since 1965. Beginning with“gateway” cities like New York and Los Angeles, the effect ofnew immigrants now extends to small pork- or chickenprocessingtowns in Iowa or North Carolina. Indeed, theMarch 2004 annual...

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Immigration, Health, and New York City: Early Results Based on the U.S. New Immigrant Cohort of 2003

Jasso, Guillermina; Massey, Douglas S.; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - New York University / Department of Economics; … - 2005

[...]Immigrants settle in one point within the vast U.S.geography. Classically, there are four great reception areas:the two coasts, Chicago, and the southern border. New YorkCity was the gateway for the great migrations of the turn ofthe twentieth century, and it remains a major destination...

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Public Education in the Dynamic City: Lessons from New York City

Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna - New York University / Department of Economics - 2005

[...]Nonetheless, not all the news is bad. As we describe in detail,our work on New York City’s public schools—which includesextensive research on immigrant children—and our separate work on school reform offer several reasons for optimism.First, immigrant students, who might be viewed as...

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The Impact of Building Restrictions on Housing Affordability

Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research <New York, NY> / …; … - 2003

[...]In this paper, after first surveying housing costs in theUnited States, we examine why the expensive places have suchhigh housing costs. High-cost places generally have either veryattractive local amenities (great weather or good schools) orstrong labor markets. The Rosen (1979) and Roback...

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The Impacts of New Neighborhoods on Poor Families: Evaluating thePolicy Implications of the Moving to Opportunity Demonstration

Goering, John - City University <New York, NY> - 2003

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s(HUD) Moving to Opportunity for Fair HousingDemonstration, or MTO …

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Terrorism and the Resilience of Cities

Harrigan, James; Martin, Philippe - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2002

[...]In this article, we consider what these risks, and the publicperception of them, mean for cities in general and for thefuture of New York City in particular. We begin by examiningthe question of why cities exist at all. Only by answering thisimportant question can we think more clearly...

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Urban resilience: An urban management perspective

McGill, Ronald - In: Journal of Urban Management 9 (2020) 3, pp. 372-381

This paper seeks to contribute to the increasingly pressing debate on urban resilience. It does so from an urban … manager's perspective. It reviews three conceptual approaches to the subject. These are then set against current urban … vulnerabilities are surveyed and plotted on maps. The ideal is through modern GIS. In year two, the softer side of the urban system …

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Investigating the most essential skills of planners in Ethiopia's Amhara National Regional State's Regiopolitan cities

Workineh, Nigatu Amsalu - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15

State's Regiopolitan cities planners, require the most in their urban planning profession. In today's urban world …, understanding city dynamics, forecasting and predicting vibrant cities, making urban planning decisions and putting them into … urban plans, and building good personal and skilled relationships have all become highly complex and challenging. As a …

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Colonial influences and African women's segregation: Evidence from Anglican converts in urban British Africa

Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2023

Using educational and occupational statistics derived from 30,000 marriage registers obtained from six major cities in British colonial Africa, we show how early colonial mission education helped African men access formal labour. Women were relegated to informal and homemaking activities...

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