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Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. [1]

224 relations: Academic degree, Activism, African Americans, Age of Enlightenment, Allen Road, American Canadians, American Mafia, American Sociological Association, Amerika (magazine), Andre Gunder Frank, Anne Golden, Architectural Forum, Author, Barnard College, Benjamin Franklin, Black Mountain, North Carolina, Boston College, Butterfly effect, Canada, Canadian Urban Institute, Cancelled expressways in Toronto, Carmine DeSapio, Catherine Bauer Wurster, Cato Institute, Central Park Conservancy, Charles Abrams, Charles Douglas Jackson, Church and Wellesley, Clarence Stein, Claude Ryan, Columbia University, Columbia University School of General Studies, Commissioners' Plan of 1811, Conscription, Currency, Dark Age Ahead, David Crombie, David Miller (Canadian politician), Decentralization, Defensible space theory, Dissent (American magazine), Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, Douglas Haskell, East Harlem, Ebenezer Howard, Eberhard Zeidler, Economic development, Economic system, Economics, Ecosystem, ..., Edmund Bacon (architect), Edward Glaeser, Eleanor Roosevelt, Equal pay for equal work, Executive director, Farmers' Market (New York City), Fortune (magazine), Fred Gardiner, Freelancer, Gentrification, Geology, Google, Google Doodle, Grassroots, Great Depression, Greater Toronto Area, Green Worker Cooperatives, Greenwich Village, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Grumman, Henri Lefebvre, Henry Luce, High Line, Holland Tunnel, HOPE VI, Housing Act of 1949, Housing Commission of Victoria, Hudson Street (Manhattan), Import replacement, Import substitution industrialization, Innovation economics, Interstate 78 in New York, Jack Diamond (architect), James Howard Kunstler, Jane's Walk, John D. Butzner Jr., Journalist, Kevin A. Lynch, Labour economics, Le Corbusier, Lewis Mumford, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Literary Review of Canada, Little Italy, Manhattan, Macroeconomics, Malcolm Gladwell, Manhattan Bridge, Margaret Mead, Marshall McLuhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massey Lectures, McCarthyism, Melbourne, Metropolitan Toronto, Michael Bloomberg, Mises Institute, Mixed-income housing, Monarchy of the Netherlands, Montreal, Moral, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Municipal Art Society, Murray Corporation of America, National Building Museum, National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Natural resource, Natural surveillance, Nature, Negative feedback, New Urbanism, New York City, New York City Subway, New York University, New York: A Documentary Film, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Ontario, Ontario Municipal Board, Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario, Patrick Geddes, Paul Martin, Pierre Trudeau, Plato, Political science, Positive feedback, Prime minister, Proposal for the Province of Toronto, Pseudoscience, Public housing, Pulitzer Prize, Québécois (word), Quebec, Quebec referendum, 1980, Quebec sovereignty movement, Quiet Revolution, Radical centrism, Raymond Unwin, Reason (magazine), Region, René Lévesque, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, Richard Gwyn, Robert Caro, Robert Moses, Robert Neuwirth, Robin Philpot, Rockefeller Foundation, Royal St. George's College, SAGE Publications, Samuel R. Delany, Saul Alinsky, Scranton School District (Pennsylvania), Scranton, Pennsylvania, Self-organization, Shorthand, Ski, Slate (magazine), Slum clearance, Social capital, Sociology, SoHo, Manhattan, South Bronx, St. Lawrence, Toronto, Stephen Harper, Suburb, Synoecism, Systems of Survival, Tariff, The Annex, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Globe and Mail, The New School, The New York Sun, The New York Times, The Power Broker, The Scranton Times-Tribune, The Village Voice, Time Inc., Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Tom Wolfe, Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Transportation Alternatives, Tyler Cowen, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, United States Department of State, United States Office of War Information, Urban decay, Urban design, Urban planning, Urban renewal, Urban secession, Urban studies, V. Gordon Childe, Vancouver, Vancouverism, Victoria Memorial Square, Vietnam War, Vincent Scully Prize, Vogue (magazine), War Production Board, Washington Square Village, West Harlem Environmental Action, West Village, West Village Houses, William H. Whyte, William McDonough, William Teron, Williamsburg Bridge, World Trade Center (1973–2001), Zoology. Expand index (174 more) »

Academic degree

An academic degree is a qualification awarded to students upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, normally at a college or university.

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Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".

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Allen Road

William R. Allen Road, also known as Allen Road and The Allen is a short expressway, super-4 expressway, and arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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American Canadians

American Canadians are Canadian citizens of American descent, or Canadians who identify to some extent with American society.

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American Mafia

The American Mafia (commonly referred to as the Mafia or the Mob, though "the Mob" can refer to other organized crime groups) or Italian-American Mafia, is the highly organized Italian-American criminal society.

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American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology.

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Amerika (magazine)

Amerika ("Америка") was a Russian-language magazine published by the United States Department of State during the Cold War for distribution in the Soviet Union.

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Andre Gunder Frank

Andre Gunder Frank (February 24, 1929 – April 23, 2005) was a German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984.

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Anne Golden

Anne Golden, (born 1941) is a Canadian administrator.

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Architectural Forum

Architectural Forum was an American magazine that covered the homebuilding industry and architecture.

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Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.

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Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college in New York City, New York, United States.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Black Mountain, North Carolina

Black Mountain is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Boston College

Boston College (also referred to as BC) is a private Jesuit Catholic research university located in the affluent village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States, west of downtown Boston.

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Butterfly effect

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian Urban Institute

The Canadian Urban Institute is a not-for-profit organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Cancelled expressways in Toronto

The cancelled expressways in Toronto were a planned series of expressways in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that were only partially built or cancelled due to public opposition.

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Carmine DeSapio

Carmine Gerard DeSapio (December 10, 1908 – July 27, 2004) was an American politician from New York City.

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Catherine Bauer Wurster

Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster (May 11, 1905 – November 21, 1964) was a prominent American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners.

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Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.

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Central Park Conservancy

The Central Park Conservancy is a private, nonprofit organization that manages Central Park under a contract with the City of New York and NYC Parks.

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Charles Abrams

Charles Abrams (September 20, 1901 – February 22, 1970) was a Polish-born American lawyer, author, urbanist, and housing expert who created the New York City Housing and Development Administration in the 1960s.

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Charles Douglas Jackson

General Charles Douglas (C. D.) Jackson (March 16, 1902 – September 18, 1964) was a United States government propagandist and senior executive of Time Inc.

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Church and Wellesley

Church and Wellesley is an LGBT-oriented enclave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Clarence Stein

Clarence Samuel Stein (June 19, 1882 – February 7, 1975) was an American urban planner, architect, and writer, a major proponent of the Garden City movement in the United States.

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Claude Ryan

Claude Ryan, (January 26, 1925 – February 9, 2004) was a Canadian journalist and politician.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Columbia University School of General Studies

The Columbia University School of General Studies (GS) is a liberal arts college and one of the undergraduate colleges of Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights, New York City.

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Commissioners' Plan of 1811

The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 was the original design for the streets of Manhattan above Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan to this day.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Currency

A currency (from curraunt, "in circulation", from currens, -entis), in the most specific use of the word, refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.

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Dark Age Ahead

Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and government responsiveness to citizen's needs, and self-regulation by the learned professions.

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David Crombie

David Edward Crombie (born April 24, 1936) is a Canadian politician, professor and consultant.

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David Miller (Canadian politician)

David Raymond Miller (born December 26, 1958) is the North American director for the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a former Mayor of Toronto and former president and CEO of WWF-Canada, the Canadian division of the international World Wildlife Fund.

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Decentralization

Decentralization is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group.

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Defensible space theory

The defensible space theory of architect and city planner Oscar Newman encompasses ideas about crime prevention and neighborhood safety.

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Dissent (American magazine)

Dissent is a left-wing intellectual magazine edited by Michael Kazin and founded in 1954.

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Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden

The dissolution of the union (Unionsoppløsningen; Unionsoppløysinga; Landsmål: Unionsoppløysingi; Unionsupplösningen) between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte, was set in motion by a resolution of the Norwegian Parliament (the Storting) on 7 June 1905.

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Douglas Haskell

Douglas Putnam Haskell (1899 - August 11, 1979) was an American writer, architecture critic and magazine editor.

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East Harlem

East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City roughly encompassing the area north of the Upper East Side and East 96th Street up to about the 140s, east of Fifth Avenue to the East and Harlem Rivers.

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Ebenezer Howard

Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928), the English founder of the garden city movement, is known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.

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Eberhard Zeidler

Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler, (born January 11, 1926) is a German-Canadian architect.

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Economic development

economic development wikipedia Economic development is the process by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social well-being of its people.

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Economic system

An economic system is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society or a given geographic area.

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Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.

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Edmund Bacon (architect)

Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author.

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Edward Glaeser

Edward Ludwig "Ed" Glaeser (born May 1, 1967) is an American economist and Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat and activist.

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Equal pay for equal work

Equal pay for equal work is the concept of labor rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay.

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Executive director

An executive director is a chief executive officer (CEO) or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation.

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Farmers' Market (New York City)

There are over 50 farmer's markets in New York City in all boroughs, which operate under GrowNYC under the "Greenmarket" name.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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Fred Gardiner

Frederick Goldwin "Fred" Gardiner, (January 21, 1895 – August 22, 1983) was a Canadian politician, lawyer and businessman.

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Freelancer

A freelancer or freelance worker is a term commonly used for a person who is self-employed and is not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.

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Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Google Doodle

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements, and people.

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Grassroots

A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a left-wing political movement) is one which uses the people in a given district, region, or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Greater Toronto Area

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Green Worker Cooperatives

Green Worker Cooperatives (GWC) is a non-profit organization that incubates environmentally sustainable worker cooperatives in the South Bronx of New York City.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) is a non-profit membership organization that seeks to document, honor and preserve the architectural heritage and cultural history of several downtown New York City neighborhoods: Greenwich Village, the Far West Village, the Meatpacking District, the South Village, NoHo, and the East Village.

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Grumman

The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft.

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Henri Lefebvre

Henri Lefebvre (16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectics, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, and structuralism.

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Henry Luce

Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day".

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High Line

The High Line (also known as High Line Park) is a elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail.

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Holland Tunnel

The Holland Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River.

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HOPE VI

HOPE VI is a plan by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Act of 1949

The American Housing Act of 1949 (Title V of P.L. 81-171) was a landmark, sweeping expansion of the federal role in mortgage insurance and issuance and the construction of public housing.

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Housing Commission of Victoria

The Housing Commission of Victoria (colloquially known as the Housing Commission and currently known as Victorian Office of Housing) was a State Government body responsible for public housing in Victoria, Australia.

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Hudson Street (Manhattan)

Hudson Street is a north-south oriented street in the New York City borough of Manhattan running from Tribeca to the south, through Hudson Square and Greenwich Village, to the Meatpacking District.

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Import replacement

Import replacement refers to an urban free market economic process of entrepreneurs replacing the imports of the city with production from within the city.

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Import substitution industrialization

Import substitution industrialization (ISI) is a trade and economic policy which advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production.

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Innovation economics

Innovation economics is a growing economic theory that emphasizes entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Interstate 78 in New York

Interstate 78 (I-78) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Union Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, to New York City.

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Jack Diamond (architect)

Abel Joseph "Jack" Diamond, is a Canadian architect.

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James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler (born October 19, 1948) is an American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger.

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Jane's Walk

Jane’s Walk is a series of neighbourhood walking tours.

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John D. Butzner Jr.

John Decker Butzner Jr. (October 2, 1917 – January 20, 2006) was a United States federal judge.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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Kevin A. Lynch

Kevin Andrew Lynch (January 7, 1918 – April 25, 1984) was an American urban planner and author.

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Labour economics

Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Literary Review of Canada

The Literary Review of Canada (or LRC) is a Canadian print magazine that publishes ten times a year.

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Little Italy, Manhattan

Little Italy is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, once known for its large population of Italian Americans.

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Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix makro- meaning "large" and economics) is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole.

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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and speaker.

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Manhattan Bridge

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension.

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911December 31, 1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Massey Lectures

The Massey Lectures are an annual five-part series of lectures on a political, cultural or philosophical topic given in Canada by a noted scholar.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Metropolitan Toronto

The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was an upper tier level of municipal government in Ontario, Canada from 1954 to 1998.

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Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born on February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, engineer, author, politician, and philanthropist.

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Mises Institute

The Mises Institute, short name for Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, is a tax-exempt educative organization located in Auburn, Alabama, United States.

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Mixed-income housing

The definition of mixed-income housing is broad and encompasses many types of dwellings and neighborhoods.

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Monarchy of the Netherlands

The monarchy of the Netherlands is constitutional and as such, the role and position of the monarch are defined and limited by the Constitution of the Netherlands.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Moral

A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event.

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Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Mount Pleasant is a large suburban town in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States.

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Municipal Art Society

The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS), founded in 1893, is a non-profit membership organization that protects New York’s legacy spaces, encourages thoughtful planning and urban design, and advocates for inclusive neighborhoods across the five boroughs.

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Murray Corporation of America

Murray Corporation of America run from 1600 Clay Street, Detroit Michigan was, from 1925 until 1939, a major supplier of complete automobile bodies to the Ford Motor Company.

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National Building Museum

The National Building Museum is located at 401 F Street NW in Washington, D.C., United States.

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

The Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which became the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was a coalition of antiwar activists formed in 1967 to organize large demonstrations in opposition to the Vietnam War.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.

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Natural surveillance

Natural surveillance is a term used in "Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design" (CPTED) models for crime prevention.

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Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe.

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Negative feedback

Negative feedback (or balancing feedback) occurs when some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to reduce the fluctuations in the output, whether caused by changes in the input or by other disturbances.

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New Urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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New York: A Documentary Film

New York: A Documentary Film is an eight-part, 17½ hour, American documentary film on the history of New York City.

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Nicolai Ouroussoff

Nicolai Ouroussoff (Николай Владимирович Урусов; born October 3, 1962) was the architecture critic for The New York Times from 2004 until June 2011.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Ontario Municipal Board

The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) was an independent administrative board, operated as an adjudicative tribunal, in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1964 against the escalating role of the U.S. military in the Vietnam War and grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

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Order of Ontario

The Order of Ontario is the most prestigious official honour in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Patrick Geddes

Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner.

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Paul Martin

Paul Edgar Philippe Martin (born August 28, 1938), also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian politician who served as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada from December 12, 2003, to February 6, 2006.

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Pierre Trudeau

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), often referred to by the initials PET, was a Canadian statesman who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979 and 1980–1984).

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Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Political science

Political science is a social science which deals with systems of governance, and the analysis of political activities, political thoughts, and political behavior.

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Positive feedback

Positive feedback is a process that occurs in a feedback loop in which the effects of a small disturbance on a system include an increase in the magnitude of the perturbation.

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Prime minister

A prime minister is the head of a cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

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Proposal for the Province of Toronto

The Province of Toronto is an urban secession proposal to split the city of Toronto and some or all of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) from the province of Ontario into a new Canadian province.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Québécois (word)

Québécois (pronounced; feminine: Québécoise (pronounced), (fem.), or (fem.) is a word used primarily to refer to a native or inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec, the majority of which speak French as a mother tongue. It can refer to French spoken in Quebec. It may also be used, with an upper or lower case initial, as an adjective relating to Quebec, or to the French culture of Quebec. A resident or native of Quebec is usually referred to in English as a Quebecer or Quebecker. In French, Québécois or Québécoise usually refers to any native or resident of Quebec. "Specialt. (répandu v. 1965). Du groupe ethnique et linguistique canadien français composant la majorité de la population du Québec. Littérature québécoise; cinéma québécoise." Its use became more prominent in the 1960s as French Canadians from Quebec increasingly self-identified as Québécois.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Quebec referendum, 1980

The 1980 Quebec independence referendum was the first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward sovereignty.

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Quebec sovereignty movement

The Quebec sovereignty movement (Mouvement souverainiste du Québec) is a political movement as well as an ideology of values, concepts and ideas that advocates independence for the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Quiet Revolution

The Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille) was a period of intense socio-political and socio-cultural change in the Canadian province of Quebec, characterized by the effective secularization of government, the creation of a welfare state (état-providence), and realignment of politics into federalist and sovereignist factions and the eventual election of a pro-sovereignty provincial government in the 1976 election.

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Radical centrism

The terms radical centrism, radical center (or radical centre) and radical middle refer to a political ideology that arose in the Western nations in the late 20th century.

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Raymond Unwin

Sir Raymond Unwin (2 November 1863 – 29 June 1940) was a prominent and influential English engineer, architect and town planner, with an emphasis on improvements in working class housing.

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.

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Region

In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).

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René Lévesque

René Lévesque (Quebec French pronunciation:; August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec (1960–1966), the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec (November 25, 1976 – October 3, 1985).

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Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping is a radical performance community based in New York City.

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Richard Gwyn

Richard John Philip Jermy Gwyn, (born May 26, 1934) is a Canadian civil servant, journalist and author.

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Robert Caro

Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Robert Moses

Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American public official who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area.

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Robert Neuwirth

Robert Neuwirth is an American journalist, author, and investigative reporter.

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Robin Philpot

Robin Philpot (born 1948) is a Quebec journalist and 2007 electoral candidate for the Parti Québécois.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Royal St. George's College

Royal St.

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SAGE Publications

SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.

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Samuel R. Delany

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Saul Alinsky

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer.

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Scranton School District (Pennsylvania)

The Scranton School District is a large, urban school district located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It serves the city of Scranton in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately 26 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 76,089. By 2010, the district's population declined to 76,065 people. The educational attainment levels for the Scranton School District population (25 years old and over) were 83.9% high school graduates and 19.3% college graduates. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 63.7% of the district’s pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, reported that 144 students in the Scranton School District were homeless. In 2009, Scranton School District residents’ per capita income was $16,174, while the median family income was $39,233. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. In Lackawanna County, the median household income was $43,673. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. In 2014, the median household income in the USA was $53,700. According to Scranton School District officials, in school year 2005-06, the Scranton School District provided basic educational services to 10,000 pupils through the employment of 900 teachers, 342 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 44 administrators. In 2006, the district students were: 72% white, 3% Asian, 11% black, 14% Hispanic and below 1% Native American. The Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit IU19 provides the district with a wide variety of services like: specialized education for disabled students; state mandated training on recognizing and reporting child abuse; speech and visual disability services; criminal background check processing for prospective employees and professional development for staff and faculty.

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Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading.

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Self-organization

Self-organization, also called (in the social sciences) spontaneous order, is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system.

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Shorthand

Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.

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Ski

A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Slum clearance

Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal strategy used to transform low income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.

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Social capital

Social capital is a form of economic and cultural capital in which social networks are central; transactions are marked by reciprocity, trust, and cooperation; and market agents produce goods and services not mainly for themselves, but for a common good.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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SoHo, Manhattan

SoHo, sometimes written Soho, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, which in recent history came to the public's attention for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, but is now better known for its variety of shops ranging from trendy upscale boutiques to national and international chain store outlets.

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South Bronx

The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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St. Lawrence, Toronto

St.

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Stephen Harper

Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian economist, entrepreneur, and retired politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada, from February 6, 2006, to November 4, 2015.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Synoecism

Synoecism or synecism (συνοικισμóς, sunoikismos), also spelled synoikism, was originally the amalgamation of villages in Ancient Greece into poleis, or city-states.

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Systems of Survival

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics, is a book written by Jane Jacobs in 1992.

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Tariff

A tariff is a tax on imports or exports between sovereign states.

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The Annex

The Annex is a neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The New School

The New School is a private non-profit research university centered in Manhattan, New York City, USA, located mostly in Greenwich Village.

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The New York Sun

The New York Sun was an American daily newspaper published in Manhattan from 2002 to 2008.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Power Broker

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro.

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The Scranton Times-Tribune

The Scranton Times-Tribune is a morning newspaper serving the Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. area.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue is a non-fiction book written by science fiction author Samuel R. Delany and published in 1999 by the New York University Press.

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Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.

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Tooker Gomberg

Tooker Gomberg (August 12, 1955 – March 3 or March 4, 2004) was a Canadian politician and environmental activist.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto Western Hospital

The Toronto Western Hospital (TWH) is a major research and teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Transportation Alternatives

Transportation Alternatives (TransAlt, formerly T.A.) is a non-profit organization in New York City which works to change New York City's transportation priorities to encourage and increase non-polluting, quiet, city-friendly travel and decrease automobile use.

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Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen (born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, who is an economics professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert C. Harris chair in the economics department.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.

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United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.

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United States Office of War Information

The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II.

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Urban decay

Urban decay (also known as urban rot and urban blight) is the process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.

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Urban design

Urban design is the process of designing and shaping the physical features of cities, towns and villages.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom, urban renewal or urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay.

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Urban secession

Urban secession is a city's secession from its surrounding region, to form a new political unit.

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Urban studies

Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities.

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V. Gordon Childe

Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 1892 – 19 October 1957), better known as V. Gordon Childe, was an Australian archaeologist and philologist who specialized in the study of European prehistory.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vancouverism

Vancouverism is an urban planning and architectural phenomenon in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Victoria Memorial Square

Victoria Memorial Square is a park and former cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vincent Scully Prize

The Vincent Scully Prize was established in 1999 to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation and urban design.

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Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine covering many topics including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.

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War Production Board

The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II.

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Washington Square Village

Washington Square Village (WSV) is an apartment complex in a superblock in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

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West Harlem Environmental Action

WE ACT for Environmental Justice (formerly known as West Harlem Environmental Action) is a nonprofit environmental justice organization based in Harlem, New York City.

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West Village

The West Village is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, largely thought to constitute the western (or northwestern) portion of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood.

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West Village Houses

The West Village Houses are a collection of 42 walk-up buildings in New York City's West Village that contain 420 apartments.

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William H. Whyte

William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (October 1, 1917 – January 12, 1999) was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher.

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William McDonough

William Andrews McDonough is an American designer, advisor, author, and thought leader.

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William Teron

William (Bill) Teron, (November 15, 1932 – March 12, 2018) was a Canadian real estate executive who was known as the "Father of Kanata".

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Williamsburg Bridge

The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278).

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World Trade Center (1973–2001)

The original World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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References

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