scholarly journals THE ENDURING ATLANTA COMPROMISE

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
LeConté J. Dill ◽  
Orrianne Morrison ◽  
Mercedez Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Subprime Lending ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
School Closures ◽  
Foreclosure Crisis ◽  
Environmental Health Perspective ◽  
Black Residents ◽  
Middle School Youth ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The City ◽  
School Youth

AbstractWaves of migration to and flight from Atlanta by both White and Black residents and businesses have constantly imagined and re-imagined the city as both politically regressive and racially progressive, and from an environmental health perspective, as both a riskscape and a safe haven. We argue that the persistent racial, social, environmental, and health inequities in Atlanta have been fostered and exacerbated by the exponential growth of the city and the persistent rhetoric of it being “the city too busy to hate.” This paper is informed by extant research on housing and transportation policies and processes at work in Atlanta since the end of the Civil War, and in particular, the predatory and subprime lending practices during the past thirty years. This paper examines how young people, living in a neighborhood where over 50% of the houses are currently vacant and contending with threats of school closures, experience the contemporary foreclosure crisis. Using qualitative data from focus groups with middle school youth, this paper offers youth-informed perspectives and local knowledge by offering responses of marginalized populations in Atlanta who inhabit, rather than flee, their built and social environments.

scholarly journals Intrapersonal, Behavioral and Environmental Factors Associated With Meeting Recommended Physical Activity Among Rural Latino Youth

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia K. Perry ◽  
Brian E. Saelens ◽  
Beti Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Physical Activity Level ◽  
Latino Youth ◽  
Activity Level ◽  
After School ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Middle School Youth ◽  
Recommended Physical Activity ◽  
School Youth

This study aimed to identify intrapersonal, behavioral, and environmental factors associated with engaging in recommended levels of physical activity among rural Latino middle school youth. Data were from an anonymous survey of 773 Latino youth (51% female) about level of and barriers and motivators to physical activity, risk behaviors, and park use. Logistic regression models identified factors correlated with meeting recommended levels of physical activity (5 days or more 360 min/day). Thirty-four percent of girls and 41% of boys reported meeting this physical activity recommendation. Participation in an organized after school activity (p < .001) and in physical education (PE) classes 5 days a week (p < .001) were strongly associated with meeting recommended physical activity level. Making PE available 5 days a week and creating opportunities for organized after school physical activity programs may increase the number of rural Latino middle school youth who meet recommended physical activity level.

scholarly journals Parent-Child Sexual Communication Among Middle School Youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 260-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura L. Edwards ◽  
Abby Hunt ◽  
Doug Cope-Barnes ◽  
Devon J. Hensel ◽  
Mary A. Ott
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Sexual Communication ◽  
Middle School Youth ◽  
School Youth ◽  
Parent Child

scholarly journals The Impact of Educational Robotics on Student STEM Learning, Attitudes, and Workplace Skills

Robotics ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 1442-1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen C. Nugent ◽  
Bradley S. Barker ◽  
Neal Grandgenett
Keyword(s):  
Summer Camps ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Workplace Skills ◽  
Learning Attitudes ◽  
Stem Attitudes ◽  
Middle School Youth ◽  
The Impact ◽  
School Youth

This chapter discusses findings from a National Science Foundation (NSF) project funded by the Innovative Technologies Experiences for Student and Teachers (ITEST) program. The project has an ongoing research agenda focusing on the impact of robotics summer camps and competitions targeted at middle school youth. The research focused on the impact of the interventions on youth a) learning of computer programming, mathematics, and engineering concepts, b) science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) attitudes, c) workplace skills, and d) STEM career interest. Results show that robotics camps and competitions appear to be viable strategies to increase student STEM learning, robotics self-efficacy, and problem solving skills.

Edible public space. Experimenting with a socio-environmentally just urbanism

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Chiara Tornaghi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Space Project ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This paper presents an English case of urban agriculture, the Edible Public Space Project in Leeds, contextualised in a context of urban agriculture initiatives committed to social-environmental justice, to the reproduction of common goods and the promotion of an urban planning which promotes the right to food and to the construction of urban space from the bottom up. The case study emerged as the result of action-research at the crossroads between urban planning policies, community work and critical geography. As opposed to many similar initiatives, the Edible Public Space Project is not intended merely as a temporary initiative hidden within the tiny folds of the city, but rather as an experiment which imagines and implements alternatives to current forms of urban planning within those folds and it contextualises them in the light of the ecological, fi nancial and social crisis of the last decade.

Preventing Truancy and Dropout Among Urban Middle School Youth

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louie F. Rodríguez ◽  
Gilberto Q. Conchas
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Urban Middle School ◽  
Middle School Youth ◽  
School Youth

scholarly journals Association of Environmental Features and the Risk of Alzheimer’s Dementia in Older Adults: A Nationwide Longitudinal Case-Control Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 2828
Author(s):  
Chih-Ching Liu ◽  
Chung-Yi Li ◽  
Shiann-Far Kung ◽  
Hsien-Wen Kuo ◽  
Nuan-Ching Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Alzheimer’S Dementia ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Alzheimer's Dementia ◽  
Environmental Features ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Government Statistics

Little is known about the association between environmental features and the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). This study aims to investigate the association of physical and social environments with the incidence of AD. We identified 12,401 newly diagnosed AD cases aged ≥65 years in 2010, with the same no. of matched controls from National Health Insurance claims in Taiwan. Environmental data were collected from government statistics including three physical environments and three social environments. Multilevel logistic regression was conducted to calculate the odds ratios (OR) of AD in association with environmental features at the township level. Results showed that living in the areas with higher availability of playgrounds and sport venues was associated with a 3% decreased odds of AD (95% CI = 0.96–0.99), while higher density of elderly living alone was associated with a 5% increased odds of AD (95% CI = 1.01–1.11), after controlling for individual and other environmental factors. In further examination by urbanization level, the above relationships were found only in rural areas but not in urban areas. This study provides evidence that specific physical and social environmental features have different impacts on the risk of AD.

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