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  2. Traditional Neighborhood Development - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. NIMBY - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Neighborhood planning - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Controversy erupts over low-income housing plan for trendy ...

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    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 ...

  6. Gentrification - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Neighbourhood - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Community development planning - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    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.