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    On the left: active use of Tähtvere street in 2013. On the right: enclosed courtyard of a new residential building used as a car park on Oa street in 2013. It is a gentrifying area neighbouring the city centre whereas characteristic to the gentrification the real estate prices rise‚ residents change and the popularity of the region increases. The results of the studies carried out in Supilinn confirm that the new people who came have thereby changed the region‚ and the change is that these people

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    A native of Atlanta‚ Spike Lee was raised by a teacher and a musician along with his three younger siblings Joie‚ Cinique‚ and Davis. Both arts and education played a huge role in his upbringing. When Spike was very young his family moved to Brooklyn‚ New York. His mother encouraged her children to be aware of their African American identity and to explore Black literature and art as a means of expression. His father‚ an accomplished jazz musician‚ played a big role in Lee’s love for jazz music

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    Considered the most notorious gangster in history‚ Alphonse Capone‚ otherwise known as Scarface Al‚ was born in New York‚ 1899‚ in a small apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Having many run-ins with the police growing up‚ he was always around the local street gang led my Johnny Torrio. After beating one of his sixth grade teachers‚ he quit school‚ and quickly learned the way of the streets‚ joining the Torrio gang‚ call the James Street Gang. James Street also included Lucky Luciano

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    Shirley Chisholm Biography As a new member of a Barbadian family Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn in the city of New York‚ at the early age of three years old Chisholm moved to the Barbados Island that at the time was a British colony‚ there she took a well-rounded early education which stressed the traditional British teachings of reading‚ writing‚ and history. She returned to New York when she was ten years old during the height of the Great Depression‚ a severe economic shortage‚ therefor

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    Short Answers Two paragraphs: What‚ Where‚ Why‚ When and Historical Significance The Daniel Moynihan Report and response to the report What: The negro Family: The case for National Action Focused on the deep roots of black poverty in America and concluded controversially that the relative absence of nuclear families (those having both a father and mother present) would greatly hinder further progress toward economic and political equality. WHY: The report argued that the rise in single-mother

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    started in the 1920’ s and ended 1930. It happened in Harlem‚ New York. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement. Billie Holiday‚ W.E.B Dubois‚ Ella Fitzgerald‚ and Bessie Smith were all there and others. Meanwhile‚ the re-development and gentrification of midtown pushed many blacks out of the Metropolitan area. As a result‚ African-Americans began moving to Harlem between 1900 and 1920 the number of blacks in the New York City neighborhood doubled. By the time the planned subway system and roadways

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    teachers that were interviewed for this paper were Victoria Rivera‚ a sixth grade teacher from Brooklyn‚ New York‚ and Marcus Williams‚ a high school history teacher that also lives in Brooklyn‚ New York. Mrs. Rivera was the first of the two interviews. Victoria Rivera wanted to become a teacher her entire life‚ and has achieved that goal by becoming one. She graduated with a teaching degree from Brooklyn College ‚ and has been teaching in the New York City public school system since 1983. Her main

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    Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson made a sport what was believed a whites only sport a sport for all races in the 20th century. He signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947‚ and was named Rookie of the Year that year. He later became National League MVP in 1949 and won the World Series in 1955. Jackie retired in 1957 with a batting average of .311. Jackie Robinson died of a heart attack in Connecticut in 1972. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31‚ 1919 in Cairo‚ Georgia. The youngest amongst

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    Dorothy Day was born on November 8‚ 1897‚ in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn‚ New York. Once an atheist and socialist‚ Day was drawn to the teachings of the Catholic Church and converted to Catholicism. Her acts of charity and solidarity have reverberated within the hearts many‚ inspiring individuals to extrapolate meaning in serving those who are unable to serve themselves. In 1932‚ she began the Catholic Worker movement and used it as a means to publicize the social teaching of the

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    History and Theory of Planning Objective The objective of this course is to understand the broad trajectories of urban spatial planning globally and how they have shaped the discourse of planning Indian cities. Who is a planner? How has the role of the planner changed? What are the historical traditions of planning that seem to influence contemporary planning practice? What are the emerging paradigms in urban spatial planning? Through seminars‚ case studies‚ response papers and assignments

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