Browsing by Author "Roberts, Andrea"
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Wilkins, Chandler Ian (2019-04-09)This study examines the neighborhood outcome and quality of Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) recipients in Houston, Texas before and after Hurricane Harvey. The purpose of this thesis is to discover if neighborhood quality ...
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CLUS-TX Rodriguez, Luis RobertoThe next evolution of sustainability, affordability and community in one building site. In which people can live in an area where they can grow their own food, and have outdoor activities. This project is able to explore ...
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O'Donnell, NicoleLocated in the Industrial District of Galveston Island, Distinguished Transitions is a unique complex that offers housing for the homeless and working poor combined with a public community center, al within the fabric of ...
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Roberts, Andrea (Texas Heritage, 2017)Often a destination at the end of an isolated dirt road, though some-times found in urban locations, Freedom Colonies are hidden African-American cultural legacies. These endangered communities are in need of greater ...
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Roberts, Andrea (Columbia University Press, 2020-03)"And Andrea Roberts explains how the Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas, another online mapping tool, serves as a platform for collaborators to collect and store data about Black settlements. But as Roberts asserts, rendering ...
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Lennox, Judanne Sharone (2020-04-24)Freedom colonies are historic African American communities founded after the Civil War, in the post Reconstruction Era. These communities are in hazard prone areas, without spatially delineating boundaries and vanishing ...
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Roberts, Andrea; Gimon, Andres Galindo; Guajardo Jr., Luis G.; Brigmon, Nathan (Center for Sustianable Development, University of Texas at Austin, College of Architecture, 2014-02)
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Roberts, Andrea; Potvin, Sarah; Hankins, Rebecca; Gatson, Sarah; Laddusaw, Sierra; Muise, Ian; Masterson, Jaimie; Thapa, Jeewasmi; Cooper, John T. Jr.; Rumbach, Andrew; Harden, Troy; Goodman, Jeanne; Thakar, Heather; Davis, Carol Branch (Texas A&M University, 2021-05-24)This planning and pilot study will assess the feasibility of a community-based, interdisciplinary model for protecting endangered places and heritage in surviving historic Black settlements founded 1865-1930 known as freedom ...
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Brown, Joshua K.There are evidences of a rich history and heritage that centers around a once thriving African-American community in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s. These thriving communities can also be called freedom colonies. ...
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Grimes, AaronModular Regeneration is a communal hub that integrates the physical, social, and cultural environment rebuilding the identify and sense of place in Northwest Goldberg. Located in the Northwest Detroit area, considered ...
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Losey, Clare (2021-08-05)Homeownership comprises the largest source of household wealth—and debt—in the U.S. The ability of the vast majority of households to attain homeownership stems primarily from the myriad programs and policies promulgated ...
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Biazar, MJ (Mohammad Javad) (2019-06-21)Freedom colonies are historic black settlements established by freed black men and women after emancipation. They exist all over the United States with a high concentration in Texas. Black Texans founded more than 557 ...
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Hall, Monét D.The escalating amount of publicized police brutality has contributed to a rise in social tension, revolt and a desire for police and racial justice reform. Within the last two years alone, the media has been bombarded with ...
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Roberts, Andrea; Blanks, jennifer (2022-02-25)“The Texas Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements& Cemeteries” (the Grant) funded through the Trust provided $50,000 to support engagement, mobile cemetery identification and ...
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Pap, Margit (2021-05-03)Planning with ethnic minorities burdened under the “cross of history” poses many challenges for settler nation-states. These challenges are tied to identity, culture, historic context, the public representation of local ...
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Roberts, Andrea (Buildings and Landscapes, 2019-12-15)Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander's We Shall Independent Be (2008), which contemplated the relationship between American ideals such as freedom and black space creation, advanced the validity of vernacular African ...