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1.Introduction -- DEFINITION AND DESIGN --2.Historical Neighborhood and Its Decline --3.Getting the Neighborhood Back --4.Reinventing the Neighborhood -- DEBATES --5.Design Debates --6.Planning Problem --7.Self-Governed Neighborhood --8.Social Confusion --9.Neighborhoods and Segregation.

A COMMON IDEA IN URBAN STUDIES IS THAT OF A TRADE-OFF BETWEEN RELOCATION ANDF LOCALLY BASED POLITICAL ACTIVISM AS ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF COPING WITH RESIDENTIAL STRESS. THIS IDEA IS EVALUATED EMPIRICALLY AND THEN TREATED CRITICALLY AS AN EXPRESSION OF MORE FUNDAMENTAL, LESS READILY APPARENT SOCIAL RELATIONS. TO EVALUATE THE DEGREE TO WHICH RELOCATION AND NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVISM ARE SUBSTITUTABLE STRATEGIES, SIMPLE BEHAVIORAL MODELS ARE TESTED WITH SURVEY DATA FOR COLUMBUS. OHIO. FROM THIS IT APPEARS THAT HOUSING TENURE PLAYS A STRATEGIC ROLE IN THE TRADE-OFF: IN THE PRESENCE OF NEIGHBORHOOD PROBLEMS OWNERS ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO BE ACTIVISTS THAN RENTERS: RENTERS, ON THE OTHER THE EXPLANATION PROBABLY LIES IN THE DIFFERENTIAL TRANSACTION COSTS OWNERS AND RENTERS CONFRONT ON RELOCATION.

Advocacy of neighborhood government should be based on a careful assessment of possible dangers & deficiencies, as well as merits. The obstacles to increasing neighborhood power are listed as the costs of community organizing in terms of time & effort, community conflict, city-neighborhood conflict, & the general political conflict. To persuade individuals to engage in collective action it is necessary that the rewards of such action be greater than personal costs. Serious participation is likely to occur only when neighborhood government programs offer visible rewards & work to solve concrete problems. There is a specific awareness that many unions & politicians will fight neighborhood government & that they have the power to damage & destroy it. There is also the sense that, whereas there has been success in developing community structures, it has been difficult to move government toward decentralization & toward more flexible administrative procedures. Thus in NY, where experimentation with neighborhood government has gone the furthest, the strategy now is to face the failures of government directly first, before promising participatory innovations. It unlikely that the neighborhood government program will be implemented in many cities soon, especially where there are minorities present which will seek centripetal participation--control of city hall. Modified HA.

A group of friends take a journey through their neighborhood. See how they spend their day visiting various places around their neighborhood in this nonfiction narrative. A picture-word glossary is included. This nonfiction title is paired with the fiction title No Place Like Home

Regression analysis applied to the longitudinal Urban Homesteading neighborhood residents data set provides mixed support for the widely held belief that in order to stabilize declining inner-city areas it is necessary to raise confidence levels of existing residents. Although confidence levels did explain movestay decisions, they did not account for variations in housing repair expenditures. The results also highlight the dilemmas facing policymakers trying to make residents optimistic. On the one hand, confidence was primarily a function of neighborhood population shifts and neighborhood social cohesion, over which local governments have little control. On the other, neither the homesteading program itself nor the quality of public services had any impact on confidence levels.

"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the Vibrant Neighborhoods book, students learn more about America's Asian communities from Little Manila during the 1940s to Chinatowns and Koreatowns and other Asian American enclaves scattered across the country. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate, and director of the San Diego State University Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Resource Center. Books include 21st Century Skills and content, an activity across books, table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, and educational matter"-- Provided by publisher.

Research in environmental psychology has found a positive relationship between place bonds and behaviors related to care and maintenance of place. Although this relationship has been analyzed in natural environments, it has been less frequently studied in urban environments and has yielded contradictory results. The aim of this study is to analyze behavior related to care and conservation of neighborhood and its possible relationship to place bonds, as well as to other variables that we think may be important in explaining this behavior. The participants were 407 residents from eight different neighborhoods with different sociodemographic characteristics in one Spanish city. The results indicate that the relationship between attachment and behavior is significant only in residents with higher socioeconomic levels. These findings may help to explain the contradictory results found in the literature. Other variables which are significant in explaining neighborhood care are social norms, residential satisfaction, and support for protection policies. Place identity was not found to be significantly correlated with neighborhood care.