Urban development analysis takes the positive consequences (e.g., concentration of social and economic performance, importance as center of innovation/innovation hub) and negative consequences of development (e.g., environmental problems or urban blight) into consideration. This approach can offer ...
As soon as I learned that theWestern Society of Weed Science‘s annual meeting was going to be held in Boise in 2023, I began making plans to attend. I had attendedthe annual meeting in 2018when it was held in Garden Grove, California and had been thinking about it ever since. It’s...
Urban renewal uses the power of the government to prevent slums from spreadinAg, a process sometimes referred to as 'preventing urban blight'. For middle-class people on the border of low-income areas, this is valuable protection. But 'urban blight' is precisely the process by which more ...
The devastating dust storms of the 1930s drew renewed attention to science as a tool of natural-resource management, and many city planners and real-estate professionals soon appropriated the rhetoric of conservation to argue for efforts to protect urban neighborhoods from blight. Like productive ...
“Socio-ecological practice by definition is the human action and social process that take place in specific socio-ecological context to bring about a secure, harmonious, and sustainable socio-ecological condition serving human beings’ need for survival, development, and flourishing. It includes six ...
under- resourced urban schools. Rather, urban schools are often stifled by neoliberal policies and practices that institutionalize standardized testing, accountability, and systems that maintain the school to prison pipeline (Lipman2013). The nexus of urban education and global education is blight with...
The high-definition cameras contained in smartphones can provide rapid images of single trees in urban areas, and tree height can be determined through imaging and photogrammetry principles. Compared with methods based on UAV-LiDAR and the Blume–Leiss height gauge, recently proposed methods [34,35...
The next higher level of geography—the census tract—is much larger than the definition of neighbors of 500 m used in this article (see later on in the article for a discussion of how neighbors are defined). We note, however, that data from this survey also fall within the range of ...