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Title: Charlotte and UNC Charlotte : growing up together
Author: Sanford, J. Kenneth
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina--Charlotte, Universities and colleges
Description: Charlotte might have built the nation’s first tax-supported university had an institution begun in 1771 survived the American Revolution, but it did not. Over the years, other efforts to establish a public college or university also failed. By the...

Title: Charlotte's Hidden Valley : the lived experience
Author: Lash, Barbara Pinson
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Documentary films, North Carolina--Charlotte, Community development
Description: Presented by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's - Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP) in partnership with Hidden Valley residents, and directed and produced by PhD Barbara Pinson Lash: The Hidden Valley Neighborhood has seen man...

Title: Community and the built environment : the physical and social consequences of gentrification in Charlotte’s Lockwood
Author: Frederick, Quinton, Peterson, Nicole
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Community development, Oral history, North Carolina--Charlotte
Description: This project examined the interactions between community relationships and physical space in Charlotte’s Lockwood neighborhood. Property values in Lockwood are growing at one of the fastest rates in the country and show no signs of stopping. This ...

Title: Densification without growth management? Evidence from local land development and housing trends in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Delmelle, Elizabeth, Zhou, Yuhong
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: North Carolina--Charlotte, City planning
Description: In urban America, land development and residential real estate have passed through a number of different phases during the post-WWII era. In contemporary discourse on urban sustainability, attention is often expressed in terms of intensity of land...