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Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) refers to the development of a complete neighborhood or town using traditional town planning principles. TND may occur in infill settings and involve adaptive reuse of existing buildings, but often involves all-new construction on previously undeveloped land.
Unfinished tower in Tenleytown, Washington, D.C. that was later removed as a result of complaints from the neighborhood. NIMBY (/ ˈ n ɪ m b i /, or nimby), [1] an acronym for the phrase "not in my back yard", [2] [3] is a characterization of opposition by residents to proposed real estate development and infrastructure developments in their local area, as well as support for strict land use ...
The history of neighborhood planning in the United States extends over a century. [5] City planners have used this process to combat a range a social problems such as community disintegration, economic marginalization, and environmental degradation. [6] The concept was partially employed during the development of new towns in the United Kingdom.
An early presentation to the Brush Park Community Development Corp. described the project as a senior living building. But after the Brush Park CDC gave the plan a thumbs up, it switched from ...
A characteristic example is a combined community effort to win historic district designation for the neighborhood, a phenomenon that is often linked to gentrification activity. [25] Gentry can exert a peer influence on neighbors to take action against crime, which can lead to even more price increases in changing neighborhoods when crime rates ...
In most urban areas of China, neighbourhood, community, residential community, residential unit, residential quarter have the same meaning: 社区 or 小区 or 居民区 or 居住区, and is the direct sublevel of a subdistrict (街道办事处), which is the direct sublevel of a district (区), which is the direct sublevel of a city (市).
Community development planning consists of a public participatory and usually interactive form of town or neighborhood planning and design in which diverse community members (often termed “stakeholders”) contribute toward formulation of the goals, objectives, planning, fund/resource identification and direction, planned project implementations and reevaluation of documented local planning ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.