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Preservation without gentrification: how to save historical nieghborhoods without driving away the longtime residents

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Non-profit groups such as the Enterprise Foundation's Rehab Work Group in Columbia, Maryand and the Operation Comeback in New Orleans are helping out in the preservation of historic neighborhoods with low-cost renovation. Local residents are therefore not forced to leave their homes due to unaffordable repair costs.

Author: Tibbetts, John
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1993
Social aspects, Planning, Remodeling and renovation, Historic buildings, Housing rehabilitation, Enterprise Foundation

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Africa-on-the-South-Carolina-Coast

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Issues concerning the characteristics of the Gullah culture and language of the group of African American people living in South Carolina, Georgia, United States, are discussed. Particular attention is given to ways in which modernization has contributed to the fading of this culture.

Author: Tibbetts, John
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 2001
Demographic aspects, Criticism and interpretation, South Carolina, Gullah dialect

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Sustainable forestry

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Foresters are working with the lumber industry to develop new systems of managing and harvesting timber. Selective harvesting methods and their effects on the environment are detailed.

Author: Tibbetts, John
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1992
Innovations, Environmental policy, Lumber industry, Foresters

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