The federal HOPE VI *policy and the expansion of opportunities in distressed urban communities.
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Title
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The federal HOPE VI *policy and the expansion of opportunities in distressed urban communities.
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Identifier
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AAI3187454
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identifier
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3187454
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Creator
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Pavone, Melissa F.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Donna Kirchheimer
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Date
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2005
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Political Science, General | Sociology, Public and Social Welfare
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Abstract
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The dissertation explores the key concepts of urban regime theory to study the implementation of the HOPE VI policy in three cities: Louisville, Kentucky, Paterson, New Jersey, and Lakeland, Florida. A central question of urban regime theory concerns how cities achieve the capacity to govern over a long period of time. The theory maintains that city governments establish alliances with locally-based private sector entities to generate the resources required to implement significant urban policies. The degree to which a federal government and its policies assist cities to generate governing capacities continues to be a topic of debate within urban regime theory.;The HOPE VI policy is a federal policy that provides categorical grant funds to public housing authorities to revitalize and regenerate severely distressed public housing developments and their adjacent communities. This policy also is intended to offer housing, employment, educational, and other opportunities to the residents of severely distressed public housing. The dissertation explores a federal revitalization and regenerative policy and the degree to which it enables a public housing authority and its city government to achieve the capacity to improve housing, economic, and social conditions found in severely distressed public housing developments and to expand opportunities for the residents who live in these developments.;The principal argument of the dissertation is that the federal government through its policies assist cities to generate the capacity to revitalize and regenerate severely distressed urban communities. The dissertation expands on urban regime theory's key concepts to provide a theoretical framework to explore the linkages between a federal policy and three cities' governing capacities. It finds that an elaborated understanding of urban regime theory's key concepts elucidates how a federal urban revitalization and regenerative policy assists cities to generate governing capacities, even when the cities have not established stable alliances with local private sector businesses and institutions.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
