Swiss metropolitan areas are comprised of a system of communities with considerable fiscal autonomy. This study investigates how the income tax differentials across communities in an urban area affect the households` location decisions. Data from the urban agglomeration of Basel for the year 1997 is used. This unique data set contains tax information from all households that moved either within...

The environmental justice movement has stimulated community-driven research about the living and working conditions of people of color and low-income communities. We describe an epidemiological study designed to link research with community education and organizing for social justice. In eastern North Carolina, high-density industrial swine production occurs in communities of low-income people ...

25 methodologies that are rarely repeated if undertaken at all. This paper will build on work undertaken for UN-HABITAT on developing an Urban Poor Accessibility Assessment Tool to map out directions for work to capture the specific accessibility needs of the urban poor that would improve equity of planning outcomes and enhance the ability the urban transport sector to contribute to poverty red...

Although rates of childhood obesity among the general population are alarmingly high, they are higher still in ethnic minority and low-income communities. The disparities pose a major challenge for policymakers and practitioners planning strategies for obesity prevention. In this article Shiriki Kumanyika and Sonya Grier summarize differences in childhood obesity prevalence by race and ethnicit...

INTRODUCTION Research on park use among Asians and Pacific Islanders is limited. This study examined use and conditions of 6 urban parks, varying in size, location, and neighborhood income level, in predominantly Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Honolulu, Hawaii. Sociodemographic predictors of park use were also identified. METHODS Observations were conducted from June through Octobe...

Traditionally, policymakers, communities, and industry have regarded the Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) as a positive mandate for banks and thrifts to do good by increasing investment in lowand moderate-income (“LMI”) neighborhoods. The specific purpose of CRA is to encourage federally insured depository institutions “to help meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are ...

The fi rst phase of the Community Child Care Research Project consisted of gathering information about the child care contexts of four Indiana communities: Marion, Lake, Allen, and St. Joseph counties. To provide an initial picture of these four communities in relation to child care, we examined existing community data and child care indicators available for the communities, conducted qualitati...

BACKGROUND In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Play Across Boston to address disparities in access to physical activity facilities and programs for Boston, Mass, inner-city youths. CONTEXT Local stakeholders worked with the Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center and Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society to impro...

Shared Workspaces are getting more and more popular in helping people collaborate. However, it’s difficult for user to search information across different Shared Workspaces since they are currently islands that are not interlinked. Based on semantic web technologies, SIOC provide ontology and tools to interlink online communities. By using SIOC to develop an explorer for Shared Workspaces, we m...

This paper describes how we extended the SIOC ontology to take into account particular aspects of wikis in order to enable integration capabilities between various wiki systems. In particular, we will overview the proposed extensions and detail a webservice providing SIOC data from any MediaWiki instance, as well as related query examples that show how different wikis, designed as independant d...