Word: neighborhooding
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That’s because many kids don’t even finish high school in the Houston neighborhood that the family—which immigrated to this country from Mexico City when Maribel was 13—calls home...
...because she doesn’t often talk about it, not everyone knew the full extent of the challenges Hana Peljto ’04 had faced and defeated in the 22 years since she was born to Emina and Haso Peljto in the Dobringa neighborhood of Sarajevo...
After three years of discussions culminating in a marathon of late-night negotiating sessions, Lawrence Adkins was tired—but not too tired to stand with a group of other residents of the Riverside neighborhood and applaud...
There's just one problem. If you want to travel by foot or even by bike in Columbia, it's not that easy to get where you need to go. Most of the homes aren't located anywhere near stores. And just walking around the neighborhood can be a challenge, since more than half the streets lack sidewalks. Not long ago the local planning and zoning commission proposed an ordinance that would require broad pedestrian and cycling paths along new and rebuilt streets. But the town council tabled the measure until more could be learned about potential costs, promising...
...detailed evidence of the obesity-sprawl connection appears in a new study led by Lawrence Frank, a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Frank surveyed nearly 11,000 people in Atlanta, compiling their body mass indexes (BMIs) and correlating those figures with the characteristics of the neighborhood within a kilometer of their homes, including whether shops and services were mixed in among the homes. He asked participants to keep a travel diary for two days to record where they went and how they got there...