The geography of metropolitan opportunity: A case study of neighborhood conditions confronting youth in Washington, DC

1995 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
George C. Galster ◽  
Maris Mikelsons
Keyword(s):  
Washington Dc ◽  
Neighborhood Conditions

scholarly journals Mapping Health Opportunity: A Case Study of Dortmund, Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Sushma Bajracharya
Keyword(s):  
Decision Makers ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Neighborhood Conditions ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
People’S Perception ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Physical Features

Health being one of the most important aspects of life, people are much concerned about their health. Because people value their health, today cities are planned considering the health and environment for providing good quality of life. Many studies have shown different effects in health due to interaction with environment. As socioeconomic, environmental and cultural conditions may vary from place to place, people living in different areas in the cities can have different health outcomes. Also, people's perception of such neighborhood conditions can vary which can influence their health. There can be different resources in and around the neighborhood that provide opportunity for its people to perform different health-benefitting activities. Such physical features can be termed as health-related resources or in other words health opportunities. This study was conducted in two different type of neighborhoods in Dortmund, Nordstadt being deprived and Kreuzviertel being affluent. To know which locations people, consider as good or bad for their health, participants who agreed to take part in questionnaire survey were directly asked to point out the places they use and avoid for health-related activities. This study found out different types of health opportunities identified by respondents in Nordstadt and Kreuzviertel. Respondents from Nordstadt mentioned health opportunities inside and outside their neighborhood whereas in Kreuzviertel health opportunities were pointed outside the neighborhood. The information about people's perception on local neighborhood can be taken as useful insights for planners and decision-makers to plan development programs. The research provides an opportunity to formulate policies that address main problems acting as barriers so that people can get maximum benefits from health opportunities. To find out detailed explanations for differences between actual and perceived environmental situation, more in-depth research is needed.

Source Theatre Company and the Mandate of the NEA: a Case Study

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (42) ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Mary C. Resing
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
The University

The controversy in the United States surrounding the funding of ‘offensive‐ and ‘pornographic‐ works by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) has centered on whether or not the organization should espouse a morally conservative outlook in regard to the public funding of artistic works. However, the NEA arguably already pursues conservative policies rooted in its vision of the form, function, and outlook of the arts it exists to serve. The appointment of the actress Jane Alexander as chair of the NEA may have indicated that the organization would become more liberal in its moral stance, but the question remains: can government-supported art be anything but conservative? The following is a case study of one theatre's relationship to the NEA in the context of the Washington, DC, theatre community. The author, Mary C. Resing, is a former business manager of New Playwrights' Theatre in Washington, DC, and a former grant writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently working on her dissertation on the actress-manager Vera Kommissarzhevskaia.

scholarly journals Siting Background Towers to Characterize Incoming Air for Urban Greenhouse Gas Estimation: A Case Study in the Washington, DC/Baltimore Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 2910-2926 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Mueller ◽  
V. Yadav ◽  
I. Lopez‐Coto ◽  
A. Karion ◽  
S. Gourdji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Washington Dc

scholarly journals Urban Land Expansion Simulation Considering the Diffusional and Aggregated Growth Simultaneously: A Case Study of Luoyang City

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9781
Author(s):  
Renyang Wang ◽  
Weishan He ◽  
Dang Wu ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Yujia Li
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Cell Transformation ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Diffusional Growth ◽  
Neighborhood Conditions ◽  
Urban Status ◽  
Ca Model ◽  
Probability Spaces ◽  
Expansion Model

Restricted by urban development stages, natural conditions, urban form and structure, diffusional growth occupies a large proportion of area in many cities. Traditional cellular automata (CA) has been widely applied in urban growth studies because it can simulate complex system evolution with simple rules. However, due to the limitation of neighborhood conditions, it is insufficient for simulating urban diffusional growth process. A maximum entropy mode was used to estimate three layers of probability spaces: the probability layer of cell transformation from non-urban status to urban status (PLCT), the probability layer for aggregated growth (PLAP), and the probability layer for diffusional growth (PLOP). At the same time, a maxent category selected CA model (MaxEnt-CSCA) was designed to simulate aggregated and diffusional urban expansion processes simultaneously. Luoyang City, with a large proportion of diffusional urban expansion (65.29% in 2009–2018), was used to test the effectiveness of MaxEnt-CSCA. The results showed that: (1) MaxEnt-CSCA accurately simulated aggregated growth of 47.40% and diffusional growth of 37.13% in Luoyang from 2009 to 2018, and the overall Kappa coefficient was 0.78; (2) The prediction results for 2035 showed that future urban expansion will mainly take place in Luolong District and the counties around the main urban area, and the distribution pattern of Luolong District will change from the relative diffusion state to the aggregation stage. This paper also discusses the applicable areas of MaxEnt-CSCA and illustrates the importance of selecting an appropriate urban expansion model in a region with a large amount of diffusional growth.

Excellent acoustics and a low RT? A case study of the recent renovation of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington, DC

1999 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 987-987
Author(s):  
Christopher Jaffe ◽  
Paul Scarbrough ◽  
Russell Cooper ◽  
Pamela Clements
Keyword(s):  
Washington Dc ◽  
Concert Hall
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