Browsing by Subject "Durham"
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911, Is There an Emergency? The Effects of Gentrification on 911 Calls in Durham, NC
(2021-02)In recent years, urbanization in the United States has led to the displacement of low-income, minority communities for middle and high-income individuals, a process termed gentrification. Scholars debate the benefits and ... -
A New Approach to Housing Choice Voucher Implementation in Durham, North Carolina
(2020-04-08)The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the largest federal rental housing program in the United States, providing housing subsidies for over 2.2 million low-income households at an annual cost of approximately $18.4 ... -
AN UPDATED ANALYSIS OF PRIORITY LANDS FOR CONSERVATION IN THE ELLERBE CREEK WATERSHED
(2022-04-21)Traditionally, conservation organizations sought to protect the most pristine land from the pressures of conversion and degradation. The conserved lands were identified by their inherent ecological value such as biodiversity ... -
Assessing the Feasibility of Green Stormwater Infrastructure Implementation in Downtown Durham
(2012-04-20)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BACKGROUND The city and county of Durham are currently determining how to comply with two sets of nutrient management strategies which mandate significant water quality improvements for Jordan ... -
Budget Civic Engagement in the City of Durham
(2018-04-20)How can the City of Durham’s Budget and Management Services Department improve civic engagement in the budget development process? What opportunities exist to coordinate budget engagement with the city’s other civic engagement ... -
Durham and Duke
(2007-01-22)An analysis of Duke University's estimated total annual economic impact on the city and county of Durham -
Employer Perspectives on Former Offenders: An Analysis of How a Criminal Record Impacts the Hiring Decisions of Durham-Based Employers
(2018-04-20)How does a criminal record affect the hiring decisions of Durham-based employers? What, if any, services or incentives might increase the likelihood of these employers hiring former offenders? Roughly 700 individuals return ... -
Improving Access to Healthy Food in Durham’s Food Deserts: A Policy Analysis
(2014-04-25)The USDA categorizes food deserts as low-income census tracts with poor access to fresh produce. This lack of access to healthy food has been linked to public health problems such as obesity, diabetes, strokes, and cardiovascular ... -
Keep It Dirty Durham: A Social Marketing Strategy for Altering Public Littering Behavior
(2015-04-23)The city of Durham, North Carolina has a population whose chant is “Keep It Dirty, Durham.” With a unique character, the location of the food hub of the south, and an increasingly growing population, Durham’s citizens must ... -
Legacy Pb contamination in the soils of three Durham city parks: Do secondary forest organic horizons effectively blanket Pb in city park soils contaminated by historic waste incineration?
(2022-12-16)Lead (Pb) has historically been used in many products such as gasoline, paint, batteries, ceramics, pipes and plumbing, solders, and cosmetics, and Pb contamination from these materials and their waste streams is widespread ... -
Policy Implications of the Changing Juvenile Gang Dynamics in Durham, North Carolina
(2014-02-15)Across the country, juvenile gang membership has increased in places which don’t quite fit the mold of a conventional gang city. Durham, North Carolina is just such a place: a mid-sized city in the south with a ... -
Promising Strategies for Partnership: Can Durham district and charter schools collaborate to improve opportunities for all children?
(2014-04-21)This report examines collaborative actions that Durham Public Schools (DPS), charter schools and other stakeholders can take to promote equitable access to high-quality learning opportunities for all of Durham’s students. The ... -
Punishing Illegal Firearm Possession in Durham
(2018-01-17)Gun violence is a high-priority crime problem in Durham and other cities across the nation. In the first half of 2017, over 20,000 Americans died from gun violence. In Durham, as of 2016, gun homicides and injuries are at ... -
Replanting Durham's Urban Forest
(2016-04-28)Urban forests are the trees found within city limits along streets, in parks, and in backyards. This urban forest offers many ecosystem services that range from stormwater control to climate change mitigation. In the context ... -
Strange Chains: How Language Keeps Non-English Speakers Out of the Justice System – Or Locks Them In
(2016-05-11)Until 2010, North Carolina’s courts, which promise “equal justice to all,” had no resources to accommodate the needs of all non-English speakers. They had to sign English-only forms they could not read and were expected ... -
‘The Secret is the Power, not the Knowledge’: Reconfiguring the Discourse of HIV/AIDS-related Stigma in Durham, NC
(2014-04-28)What are the conditions in which stigma is held to be a common sense factor of HIV/AIDS, yet is mutable in the ways people experience stigma? My research analyzes the terrain in which this question is precipitated, and I ... -
Trinity Park School in Context: College, Community, Contemporaries
(2017-05-01)For twenty-four years at the turn of the twentieth century Duke University‘s East Campus hosted not only Duke‘s progenitor, Trinity College, but also a second educational institution, Trinity Park School. Modeled after some ... -
Urban Stormwater Management in Ellerbe Creek Watershed: The Duke Diet & Fitness Center Case Study
(2011-04-28)Stormwater runoff from urban land has become a challenge for growing communities in managing non-point source pollution. The stormwater runoff of Downtown Durham, North Carolina is of particular interest, due to its location ... -
Women-In-Action’s Brand of Biracial Activism: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Class in 1960s-1970s Durham
(2012-10-24)In the popular narrative of the civil rights movement in the United States, the role of women often becomes minimized or overlooked altogether; yet women played a critical part in engaging racial issues in their communities ...
