5,618 research outputs found
The fight for Foote Homes: a peoples’ struggle to save public housing in Memphis, TN.
No full textPublic housing plannin
Advocacy Planning
No full textIn the post–World War II era, American cities confronted increasing economic, social, and political challenges resulting from the combined impact of suburbanization, deindustrialization, and disinvestment. As growing numbers of large employers seeking less expensive real estate, lower taxes, better transportation access, and relief from unionization pressures moved to the suburbs, many of their middle-and-upper income employees followed them. This outmigration of businesses and residents resulted in growing residential and commercial vacancies and falling property values in many older neighborhoods within America’s central cities causing lenders to avoid investing in these areas. Further complicating these economic challenges was the arrival of increasing numbers of African American families displaced by the mechanization of Southern agriculture. Unable to access expanding employment and housing opportunities in the suburbs due to exclusionary zoning and building codes, these families were frequently forced to live in older urban neighborhoods with poor schools, deteriorating housing, declining retail services, and underfunded municipal services. Inspired by the example of Southern civil rights organizations, leaders from these communities demanded more redistributive urban policies and participatory decision-making processes. In the mid-1960s, the federal government responded to these pressures by increasing funding for public housing and initiating an ambitious “War on Poverty.” Aware of the tendency of federal programs to achieve their redevelopment goals through displacement of the poor, working-class communities of color fought for a meaningful voice in the design and implementation of these programs. In Boston, New York, Chicago, and other US cities, equity-oriented planners and architects began collaborating with leaders of threatened neighborhoods to challenge the assumptions, goals, analysis, and plans of centralized planning and redevelopment agencies. In 1965, Paul Davidoff, an Assistant Professor of Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote “Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning” which offered a powerful critique of the rational model of comprehensive planning upon which these efforts were based. Davidoff questioned the physical emphasis of these plans, the possibility of value neutral planning, the existence of a unitary public interest, and the ability of a small group of planners to incorporate the interests of diverse communities into a single plan. Davidoff urged equity-minded planners to assist groups overlooked in public planning processes to generate their own empirically based plans designed to challenge the proposals of mainstream planning agencies. Davidoff’s call for advocacy planning led to a significant reform movement within North and South American and European planning that continues to have significant influence within the planning and design professions, municipal planning departments, graduate planning and design schools, and national urban programs in the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere
Building possibilities. Community planning as a critical spatial thinking : a conversation with Kenneth Reardon
No full textMoving from grassroots mobilizations to institutionalization of practices to art as a device of engagemen, the conversation with Kenneth Reardon explores various aspects of advocacy planning, including participatory action research, community organizing, and University service learning
Paul Davidoff’s Life in Prospect. Building a Progressive Planning Research Agenda through Engaged Scholarship
No full textThis article explores Paul Davidoff’s life and its relevance to the epochal turn for the planning discipline when theories in planning gave up ground to new theories of planning. By using biography as a method of inquiry, this article highlights the intertwined relations between Davidoff’s scholarship, his public and private life, and his efforts to face structural racism in planning. The article offers suggestions for progressive planning by reflecting on the relevance of scholars’ entrenchment with their context to foster practice and research through engagement
Don Keleher, Laurie Smith, Dr. Kenneth Ozmon, and Don Reardon, ca. 1982
No full textdigital photograph (jpeg)Excellent condition.L-R: Don Keleher (Vice President of the Alumni Association), Laurie Smith (Arts class of 1943, Director, Admissions and Scholarships), Dr. Kenneth Ozmon (SMU President 1979-2000), and Don Reardon (Commerce class of 1957, President of the Alumni Association). President Ken Ozmon accepts gift from colleagues
Interview with Kenneth Sprunt
No full textKenneth Sprunt was born in Wilmington in 1920, the third son of James Lawrence Sprunt. The Sprunts have a long history in and around Wilimington. His grandfather was a cotton merchant in the area and his great-great Uncle is the man for whom James Sprunt Community College is named for as well as the author of Chronicles of the Lower Cape Fear. Mr. Kenneth Sprunt relates his family history both before his birth and after. He spent three years in the Coast Guard during WWII primarily working on anti-submarine warfare in small boats
Memorandum from Kenneth Iyeko
No full textMemorandum from Kenneth Iyeko regarding establishment and support of the Japanese American Citizens' League at incarceration camps operated by War Relocation Authority.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
A Review by Kenneth Atkinson of Alexandria and Qumran: Back to the Beginning, by Kenneth Silver
No full textKenneth Silver (a.k.a. Kenneth A. K. Lönnqvist), is a historian and professional archaeologist, who has lived and worked for decades in the Near East. With extensive publications on Hellenistic and Roman archaeology, history, and numismatics, Silver is the director of a survey and mapping project in Northern Mesopotamia studying the border zone between the late Roman/ Byzantine Empires and Persia. Author of numerous publications on Qumran and related topics, Silver’s lengthy monograph proposes that the documents and type of library found at Qumran were based on models derived from Egypt. The main thesis of the volume is that Pythagorean philosophy is the core and basis for the beliefs reflected in the non-Biblical texts found at Qumran
Patterning of chorion proteins in the drosophila eggshell
No full textM.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kenneth Ki
The implications for ministry of the teachings of Kenneth Cracknell with special reference to former students
No full textTo be effective in ministry in the contemporary religious milieu, today's seminarians, tomorrow's church leaders, must receive more than a mere academic experience; they need practical experience as to how to function effectively within a socially diverse climate of faith. The author documents the long term impact of Kenneth Cracknell's attempts to nurture cross cultural understanding and cooperation within the seminary context. The intent of this exposition is to demonstrate that Kenneth Cracknell has purposefully created a tranformative environment using interfaith dialogue as an effective paradigm for informing today's diverse seminary population. To that end, opinions, reactions and musings of a dozen former students are documented and presented herein as models of appropriate conversation for interfaith dialogue
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