Category Archives: citations

I chose to do my literature search on the topic of “racial segregation.” The first source I chose was a paperback book called, The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law That Ended Racial Segregation (Loevy). I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I started my search for sources on www.courant.com to look for a Hartford-related news article on the web. After trying a couple of keywords, I finally found one that interested me. I chose “In Hartford, A Map To A Better … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In order to get started on my research for Essay 1, I decided to look for sources that will help with my writing. The first is “Urban Space, Restrictive Covenants and the Origins of Racial Residential Segregation in a US … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When searching for sources to assist in furthering my understanding of housing barriers, both past and present in the U.S., I came upon multiple inquiries of interest. Most, but not all, of my findings involve the government’s influence on housing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In his article In Hartford, A map To A Better Way Of Life, Kovner discusses the city’s mapping of nuisance complaints and whether it will lead to more stability through change. Using statistics, the city has mapped out nuisances to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For this literature search assignment, I decided to conduct a literature search on “redlining.” I feel that redlining is a practice that has changed over time. Therefore, I looked for sources that contained  housing discrimination by means of redlining. From … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My topic of choice that I researched for this assignment was Barriers in Urban Housing. This search brought up a number of exclusionary zoning scholarly articles and books. While searching I came across this book titled Drugs, Crimes, and Social … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As we are approaching the due date for our first essay, I decided to conduct a literature search for potential sources to support my argument. The first source that I found is an article from a website titled The Leadership … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When starting looking for sources, I decided to type in these few key words: Hartford, housing, barriers, and change–all words that have to do with our next assignment on how barriers in housing have changed over time.  The first website … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have been most interested in restrictive covenants because while they seem the most overt and blatant in their racist language, their residual effects still lingered and still do. The first article I found interesting caught my eye because the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I chose to do my literature search on the topic of “racial segregation.” The first source I chose was a paperback book called, The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law That Ended Racial Segregation. I chose this particular source, because I thought it seemed interesting. Additionally, I found the cover to [...] Continue reading →

The topic I looked up was zoning and exclusionary zoning. Because zoning is a broad topic, I figured if I had trouble, I’d use exclusionary zoning as a search subject. The book I found for zoning is called Housing America: … Continue reading → Continue reading →