Capital Accumulation with La Metro's Gold Line Atlantic Station and Future Extensions

Capital Accumulation with La Metro's Gold Line Atlantic Station and Future Extensions
Author: Scott Ireland Lopez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Dissertations, Academic
ISBN:
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The Gold Line is the most eastward light rail line of the LA Metro system. The Eastside Transit Corridor Phase II extension pushes the Gold Line further east offering rail services to an area that has been without for many years. Using content analysis, time series image analysis, participant observation, and geographic information systems, I found that capital accumulation takes place along the Gold Line Atlantic Station in East Los Angeles and beyond. This phenomenon is revealed through the nearby presence of notable landmarks and businesses that enable capital accumulation through aesthetics and consumerism. A high renter presence, gradual increases in household incomes and property values also proved this hypothesis. The proposed ending stations of the Gold Line extension display similar findings revealing the effort to boost capital accumulation as LA Metro expands the Gold Line east. The expansion east would bring the consequences of capital accumulation. Low-income neighborhoods close to the proposed stations would be the most affected and must speak for a more comprehensive planning that better considers financial vulnerabilities.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Author: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1616405414
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities

Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities
Author: Kris Bezdecny
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 1784712280
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The majority of the world's population now live in cities, nearly a quarter of which boast populations of one million or more. The rise of globalisation has granted cities unprecedented significance, both politically and economically, leading to benefits and problems at national and international levels. The Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities explores the changes that are occurring in cities, and the impacts that they are having, at the local, national and global scale.

Planning Europe's Capital Cities

Planning Europe's Capital Cities
Author: Thomas Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135829020
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During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes. From Vienna's Ringstrasse to the boulevards of Paris, the townscapes which emerged still shape today's cities and are an inalienable part of European cultural heritage. In Planning Europe's Capital Cities, Thomas Hall examines the planning process in fifteen of those cities and addresses the following questions: when and why did planning begin, and what problems was it meant to solve? who developed the projects, and how, and who made the decisions? what urban ideas are expressed in the projects? what were the legal consequences of the plans, and how did they actually affect subsequent urban development in the individual cities? what similarities or differences can be identified between the various schemes? how have such schemes affected the development of urban planning in general? His detailed analysis shows us that the capital city projects of the nineteenth century were central to the evolution of modern planning and of far greater impact and importance than the urban theories and experiments of the Utopians.

The Transit Metropolis

The Transit Metropolis
Author: Robert Cervero
Publisher:
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1998-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:
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The author has spent more than three years studying cities around the world, and he makes a compelling case that metropolitan areas of any size and with any growth pattern - from highly compact to widely dispersed - can develop successful mass transit systems."--BOOK JACKET.

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Author: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2009-08-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521144078
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Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.

Handbook of Cities and the Environment

Handbook of Cities and the Environment
Author: Kevin Archer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2016-12-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784712264
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With an ever-growing majority of the world's human population living in city spaces, the relationship between cities and nature will be one of the key environmental issues of the 21st Century. This book brings together a diverse set of authors to explore the various aspects of this relationship both theoretically and empirically. Rather than considering cities as wholly separate from nature, a running theme throughout the book is that cities, and city dwellers, should be characterized as intrinsic in the creation of specifically urban-generated ‘socio-natures’.