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Adams Morgan Community Development Corporation internship
No full textThis report is an analysis of the Adams Morgan/Mt. Pleasant Community Development Corporation in Washington, DC. The report provides an overview of the organizational structure of the agency and the author's experience working there. (Library-derived description)Spann-Edwards, C. (1989). Adams-Morgan CDC internship. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster of Science (M.S.)School of Community Economic Developmen
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No full textThe Humanities Truck at its first event: Adams Morgan Day 2018
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No full textAdams Morgan "Know Your Neighborhood" front of postcard. Held by Benjamin Stokes
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No full textDan Kerr, Humanities Truck Director and Samir Meghelli, curator at the Anacostia Community Museum, setting up Humanities Truck before opening of Adams Morgan Day festivities
Adams Morgan Parkway: Envisioning a Network of Green Streets
No full textThe footprint of urban streets have become conflict zones of interests; ranging from efficient automobile infrastructure, building restriction lines, economical interests, shy efforts to introduce nature, services, etc.
How can we, as urban designers, retrieve a portion of this footprint to nature by taking advantage of the existing public parking areas and create a network of streets that speaks to the larger park network?
Can a neighborhood like Adams Morgan serve as an example for a collaborative design between private and public interests to enhance the potential of blue-green infrastructure?Master of ScienceThis thesis presents a way of utilizing “public parking areas” to connect the network of streets to a larger network of parks. In Washington, DC, parking areas are public spaces situated between the property line and the sidewalk. Though public, these parking areas are under the immediate care and maintenance of the owners or occupants of the premises.
For the purpose of this thesis, streets in the Adams Morgan neighborhood are used to illustrate the potential of a collaborative design between private and public interests in such parking areas. The Adams Morgan neighborhood provides several key elements, including many residential streets, three DC parks (Walter Pierce, Marie H. Reed Community and Learning Center, and Kalorama Park) and four National Park Service Parks (Meridian Hill, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Rock Creek Trail and Parkway) as well as an active commercial district.
Moreover, this thesis illustrates the potential benefits of using blue-green infrastructure, which integrates natural with semi-natural landscape elements, including water. Using this type of infrastructure to link streets to the park network would promote sustainability and resilience and provides an opportunity to enhance connectivity and reduce park fragmentation
Histories of Privatization: Examining Culture, Legal Conflict, and Economic Transformation at Adams Morgan Plaza in Washington, DC
Full text linkPublic spaces are disappearing at alarming rates as cities face mounting housing, economic, and social issues. Adams Morgan Plaza in Washington, DC is no different. Over the past several years, the Plaza has experienced numerous changes that have radically altered the neighborhood. It sparked community outrage and an ensuing lawsuit that wounds way, slowly, through the DC courts. This study uses census data and primary source documents to understand why Adams Morgan Plaza was privatized and how these changes are challenged. The results shed new light on how legal battles and economic pressures shaped the development of a central neighborhood landmark. It’s history as a theatre and communal epicenter are obscured by its liminality. The Plaza today contradicts Adams Morgan’s legacy of diversity and artistic culture, but also finds itself on a new path: to create affordable housing. These findings provide insights into an ongoing history of change, cultural expression, and community within a vibrant neighborhood of the nation’s capital
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Undergraduate Library Research Award Essay: "Histories of Privatization: Examining Culture, Legal Conflict, and Economic Transformation at Adams Morgan Plaza in Washington, DC"
No full textFirst-place winning essay in the Sophomore, Junior, or Senior category of the Undergraduate Library Research Award, presented by the Science, Engineering, and Social Sciences Libraries (SESSL).
Public spaces are disappearing at alarming rates as cities face mounting housing, economic, and social issues. Adams Morgan Plaza in Washington, DC is no different. Over the past several years, the Plaza has experienced numerous changes that have radically altered the neighborhood. It sparked community outrage and an ensuing lawsuit that wounds way, slowly, through the DC courts. This study uses census data and primary source documents to understand why Adams Morgan Plaza was privatized and how these changes are challenged. The results shed new light on how legal battles and economic pressures shaped the development of a central neighborhood landmark. It’s history as a theatre and communal epicenter are obscured by its liminality. The Plaza today contradicts Adams Morgan’s legacy of diversity and artistic culture,
but also finds itself on a new path: to create affordable housing. These findings provide insights into an ongoing history of change, cultural expression, and community within a vibrant neighborhood of the nation’s capital.
Keywords: Washington, DC; housing; historic preservation; Adams Morgan; public space; urban studies; economics; legal history; DC governance and politics; social and economic history
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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