Women have been the backbone of service provision for health and healing in the Native American community in the San Francisco Bay Area. The contributions of Native women are exemplified in the Women's Circle of the Native American Health Centers in San Francisco and Oakland. Women receive a broad range of services through the Women's Circle--in a coed residential substance abuse treatment faci...

ABSTRA CT: Suburban sprawl has often been identified as low-density and dispersed development hat requires greater automobile vehicle miles to be traveled for daily activities thereby resulting in problematic environmental and social impacts. This paper attempts to empirically test one of the spatial characteristics of sprawl by measuring the actual road distance of residential housing units to...

The residential patterns across the metropolitan areas have changed notably since 1950s; The population has suburbanized and the poor now live closer to the city center. The recent research by urban economists finds that the income elasticity of land demand is too low to explain the poor’s urbanization, which mainly comes from better access to public transportation in cities. We take the new fi...

We present high spatial-resolution mapping of soil lead (Pb) concentrations in a small-urban residential setting. X-ray fluorescence was used to measure soil Pb at170 properties in the City Park neighborhood of Appleton, Wisconsin. Greater than two-thirds of soil samples collected from drip lines contained more than 400 μg g of Pb, and one third exceeded 1200 μg g. Soils adjacent to homes built...

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Youth exiting foster care often experience difficulties transitioning into adulthood. This paper focuses on Latino foster care youth in a major southwestern U.S. city and addresses the importance of peer networks as a crucial form of social capital as youth leave foster care. Case studies illustrate experiences of foster care alumni ranging in age from 18 to 26. Findings suggest that lack of ho...

Improving the vitality of cities has long been considered an important goal planning. However, people’s understanding how complex and diverse built environment factors affect urban is still limited. In recent years, emergence new data provides a perspective for study vitality. this article, spatio-temporal variation was quantitatively measured by using Baidu heat map, influence on further analy...

The buildings of business centers make up a significant part the development modern cities. Having different sizes, functional content and architectural artistic solutions, these complexes are often spatial dominants. compositional accent formed by them indicates place concentration for social activity associated not only with but also an entertainment pastime program. formation center as speci...

This paper analyses effects of an interest rate freeze in subprime mortgages on residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS). In particular, we study shifts in the underlying portfolio’s discounted cashflow distributions as well as changes in the payment profile of RMBS-tranches. We show that the positive effects of a rate freeze, e.g. less foreclosures and a stabilizing housing market, can ou...