- Title Information
- Title
- Socio-environmental succession of Providence greenspace
- Subtitle
- implications of history for contemporary urban land use
- Name:
Personal
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- Acosta, Kailani
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- creator
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- Cole, Cassandra
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- creator
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- Montieth, Lauren
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- creator
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- Tobe, David
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- creator
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Personal
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- Frickel, Scott
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- advisor
- affiliation
- Brown University. Department of Sociology
- Name:
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- Brown University. Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award
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- research program
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- posters
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
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- Providence
- Publisher
- Brown University
- Date Created
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- 2015-08-07
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 poster
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Parks, playgrounds, vacant lots, and other forms of open urban land serve a
variety of social and ecological functions that reflect both historical and contemporary
societal, political, and economic forces within a municipality. As neighborhoods change in
response to urban deindustrialization, land use often changes in response to the processes
of decay or revitalization. Demographics may influence the size, quality, and use patterns
of public greenspaces located within a particular neighborhood as well as the concentration
of vacant and/or underused spaces. This project seeks to better understand the contemporary
implications of the volatile industrial history of Providence, Rhode Island, by collecting
descriptive statistics on all types of open urban land contained within two case-study
neighborhoods, Elmwood and Elmhurst. In doing so, we may find associations between historic
land development and present-day land use, and may potentially discover correlations between
the types of urban greenspaces found within a neighborhood and that respective
neighborhood's demographic composition. Our goals include: 1) Develop a comprehensive
geo-located database of open spaces in two distinct neighborhoods; 2) Characterize the
topography, neighborhood context, and formal and informal social uses of open spaces; 3)
Interpret data in the context of selected socio-economic indicators
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- City planning
- Geographic
- Rhode Island
- Geographic
- Providence
- Subject (LCSH)
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- Recreation
- Geographic
- Rhode Island
- Geographic
- Providence
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Playgrounds
- Geographic
- Rhode Island
- Geographic
- Providence
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Parks
- Geographic
- Rhode Island
- Geographic
- Providence
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/s9bf-w024