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Journal articles on the topic "Kansas City, Missouri. Public Library"
Collie-Akers, Vicki, Jerry A. Schultz, Valorie Carson, Stephen B. Fawcett, and Marianne Ronan. "REACH 2010: Kansas City, Missouri." Health Promotion Practice 10, no. 2_suppl (April 2009): 118S—127S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839908331271.
Full textTvedten, John. "The City of Kansas City's Firefighters' Pension Bonus Plan." Public Personnel Management 22, no. 3 (September 1993): 345–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009102609302200301.
Full textGotham, Kevin Fox. "A City without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60, no. 1 (January 2001): 285–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1536-7150.00064.
Full textMoran, Peter William. "Difficult from the Start: Implementing theBrownDecision in the Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools." Equity & Excellence in Education 37, no. 3 (September 2004): 278–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10665680490491588.
Full textMunstedt, Peter A. "Coping with Popular American Sheet Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City." Collection Management 11, no. 3-4 (July 14, 1989): 59–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j105v11n03_03.
Full textCai, Jinwen, and Q. B. Welch. "Age-Adjusted Homicide Rates by ZIP Codes, Kansas City, Missouri, 1991-1995." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 5, no. 2 (March 1999): 27–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00124784-199903000-00014.
Full textCai, Jinwen, and Q. B. Welch. "Age-Adjusted Homicide Rates by ZIP Codes, Kansas City, Missouri, 1991-1995." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 5, no. 2 (March 1999): 27–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00124784-199905020-00014.
Full textKumar*, Lala A., and Jan Schwarz. "Evaluation of Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City." HortScience 39, no. 4 (July 2004): 839D—839. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.39.4.839d.
Full textFriend, Jennifer, April Adams, and George Curry. "Breaking News: Utilizing Video Simulations to Improve Educational Leaders' Public Speaking Skills." Journal of Research on Leadership Education 6, no. 5 (December 2011): 234–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277511100600509.
Full textCai, Jinwen, Gerald L. Hoff, Paul C. Dew, V. James Guillory, and Josie Manning. "Perinatal Periods of Risk: Analysis of Fetal–Infant Mortality Rates in Kansas City, Missouri." Maternal and Child Health Journal 9, no. 2 (June 2005): 199–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10995-005-4909-z.
Full textDissertations / Theses on the topic "Kansas City, Missouri. Public Library"
Ross, Gena L. "Kansas City, Missouri, Inner City Schools' Parent Involvement Policy, Practices, and Accreditation Problems." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4754.
Full textJohnson, Chase. "Implementing the partnership for Washington Square Park in downtown Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17583.
Full textDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
The use of partnerships between the public and private realm have become increasingly popular. This is due to today’s challenges of declining public resources to fulfill the social and physical needs of urban environments. This dilemma has placed a heightened emphasis on executing creative and collaborative redevelopment projects. Downtown Kansas City has an opportunity for such a project. Washington Square Park in downtown Kansas City, Missouri has a unique opportunity to stand as a catalyst project that would reconnect the urban fabric of the city, increase the population within downtown, and create an unsurpassed gateway into the greater downtown area. The public realm alone cannot accomplish this undertaking. Therefore, implementing the redevelopment of the park through public private partnerships is a natural choice. This study explores the intricacies of implementing the proposed Washington Square Park redevelopment project through the use of public private partnerships. It draws from a body of literature and precedents to provide background material, context and principles that are applied to the Washington Square Park project. The study employs site, market, and stakeholder analyses to assess the current economic environment, property ownership, power relationships and influences relating to the redevelopment project. These methods determined that as the value of Washington Square Park increases so will adjacent property; existing economic incentives are critical for project implementation; multi-family and retail real estate markets are strong while office trends are improving; current zoning allows for very high density with no height limitations; and several “key players” hold the attributes for establishing a conservancy for Washington Square Park. These findings reveal the symbiotic relationships between Washington Square Park and the surrounding context which provides the rational basis for project implementation through public private partnerships. Overall, this document informs the various stakeholders and decision-makers of pertinent information pertaining to the Washington Square Park redevelopment project and propositions a scenario for project implementation through the use of public private partnerships.
Wood, James Patrick. "Selling transit: perception, participation, and the politics of transit in Kansas City, Missouri." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17306.
Full textDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Huston John Gibson
Informed and robust stakeholder participation in the transit-planning process gives residents and communities a remarkable opportunity to take ownership of the shaping of their city’s future form and function, and allows planners to design transit networks that serve the full range of citizen needs. Therefore, the degree to which citizens are permitted to participate in the formation of a city’s transit plan has a significant influence on both its final design and its subsequent adoption by civic and political leaders. Concurrent with the influence of citizen input is the role of political strategy, since many urban transit plans must meet voter approval and a poorly-run political campaign can sink even the most substantial of transit plans. In seeking to analyze both the role of public participation and the role of campaign strategy, this study employs descriptive historical research and stakeholder surveys to assess the impact and perceived importance of inclusive design practices, as well as the political impact of a transit campaign’s general strategy, on the voter approval of transit-related ballot initiatives in Kansas City, Missouri. There are two central implications of this project. One is that the failure of transportation planners and civic activists in Kansas City to accommodate the wishes and input of diverse groups of residents and community leaders in the planning process has led to repeated defeats whenever said plans are presented to Kansas City voters for approval. The other is that urban politics and campaign strategies play a larger role in selling transit proposals than many leading figures in Kansas City have realized, and that the city’s unique political and geographic structure requires a more nuanced and technologically-diverse approach to voter persuasion than has been applied thus far. It can be theorized that reversing both of these trends will increase the likelihood of future voter approval of transportation initiatives. In addition to a political and historical analysis of transit in Kansas City, this study seeks to examine whether deliberate public participation in the transportation planning process has a direct impact on citizen support for transportation-related ballot initiatives in Kansas City.
Seaman, Zachary Neil. "Designing and planning for the active use of public spaces in downtown Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13744.
Full textDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
Kessler’s 1893 parks and boulevards system was established to spur investment. The 1893 Report shaped the present city pattern and form of Downtown Kansas City by encouraging decentralized city and metropolitan growth. Today’s system discourages pedestrian mobility and accessibility through the design and context of the public spaces. Since walkability contributes to successful public spaces, walking for transportation to encourage active use could improve today’s open-space system. To address the present condition facing the system, the report analyzes the morphology of Kessler’s parks and boulevards system within the 2010 Greater Downtown Area Plan boundary. For methods, stakeholder notes and professional interviews explain the planning process behind the 2011-2012 KCDC project to revitalize public space. The stakeholder notes and professional interviews assess the context of the Kansas City Design Center’s vision to revitalize Kessler’s parks and boulevards system. Using the StreetSmartTM walkability model, the design and context of public space can help revitalize Kessler’s 1893 system and today’s park system. The model can be used to measure and prioritize investment by assessesing the pedestrian mobility and accessibility of public spaces. The implication of the report is that if the design and context of public spaces addresses the public interest and walkability, public spaces will become connected, diverse, market-competitive, and actively used. Short-term pedestrian amenities and long-term infrastructure improvements provide different ways to prioritize pedestrian mobility and accessibility to create a walkable downtown, one of the goals of the Greater Downtown Area Plan.
Vaughan, Katherine B. "Environmental justice and physical activity: examining disparities in access to parks in Kansas City, Missouri." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/12446.
Full textDepartment of Kinesiology
Andrew T. Kaczynski
Background: Parks are key community assets for promoting physical activity, especially in low income areas where other accessible, low cost resources may not be available. However, some evidence suggests these integral resources are not equitably distributed. The primary purpose of this study was to examine disparities in park availability, features, and quality across socioeconomically and racially diverse census tracts (CTs) in Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO). Methods: All parks in KCMO were mapped using GIS shape files provided by the City of KCMO. Park features and quality were determined via on-site audits using the Community Park Audit Tool. Data from the American Community Survey were used to designate all 174 CTs within KCMO as either low, medium, or high income and percent minority. MANCOVA was used to analyze differences in park availability, features, and quality across income and race/ethnicity tertiles. Results: Low income CTs contained significantly more parks (M=1.46) than medium (M=1.25) or high (M=1.00) income CTs, but also had more quality concerns (e.g., vandalism) per park. High income CTs contained more playgrounds per park (M=.69) than low (M=.62) and medium (M=.52) income tracts. There were more basketball courts per park in high minority CTs (M=.59) than low (M=.13) or medium (M=.30) minority CTs, and more trails per park in low (M=.60) and medium (M=.55) minority CTs than high (M=.39) minority CTs. Finally, there were more sidewalks around parks in low (M=.87) and high (M=.74) income CTs than medium (M=.61) income CTs. Conclusions: This study adds to an important body of literature examining income and racial disparities in access to active living environments. Park availability was greater in low income areas, but several key park characteristics were less common in low income or high minority areas. Future research should consider the quality of park facilities and amenities and the composition of neighborhoods around parks, as well as how disparities in access to park environments are associated with physical activity and health outcomes. Public health and parks and recreation researchers and practitioners should work together to examine policies that contribute to and that might rectify disparities in access to safe and attractive parks and open spaces.
Petersen, Deanne. "Food truck fever: a spatio-political analysis of food truck activity in Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17546.
Full textDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning
Hyung Jin Kim
Planning researchers and professionals have recently noted the social, economic, and cultural benefits food truck activity can provide within a community. As a result, the proliferation of food truck activity has challenged planners to reconsider the role of streets and urban spaces. Food trucks have the potential to enliven the urban landscape and enrich the quality of public life by serving as revitalization catalysts in urban spaces. While food trucks have become an increasingly visible aspect of street life, few jurisdictions have determined an effective manner to regulate and promote food truck activity. The study recommends how cities can improve current food truck policies in order to enable the revitalization of urban spaces through food truck activity. Using Kansas City, Missouri as a study area, the primary question was explored through three secondary inquires and their related methods. First, a GIS-based spatial analysis identified the spatio-temporal characteristics of food truck locations via social media data mining processes. Second, a survey of food truck vendors and interviews with city staff highlighted stakeholder conflicts that pose barriers to food truck activity. Third, a policy review in key cities and the development of a policy framework helped determine appropriate policy guidelines that allow food trucks to operate effectively in a city. The cumulative findings of the study informed food truck policy guidelines for Kansas City, Missouri. The policy framework also provides a structure for cities to utilize in order to analyze their own regulations. Sixteen significant policy areas are included in the framework, with the policy areas falling into one of three categories: permitting and enforcement, streets and spaces, or public health and safety. Appropriate policies that balance the needs of stakeholders allow food trucks to operate effectively, thus allowing cities to capitalize on the urban revitalization effects and other benefits that food truck activity provides within urban spaces.
Besenyi, Gina M. "Park environments and youth physical activity: exploring the influence of proximity and features across Kansas City, Missouri." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/11493.
Full textDepartment of Kinesiology
Andrew T. Kaczynski
Background: With the dramatic increase in childhood obesity rates over the last three decades, parks can offer an accessible and affordable population-level solution to the important issue of youth physical inactivity. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the association of park proximity and park features with nearby youth achieving recommended levels of physical activity. Methods: This community-based study was conducted in Kansas City, Missouri. Valid physical activity data were obtained for 191 youth via a parent proxy survey with an overall response rate of 27.4%. Geographic information systems (GIS) were used to create three measures of park proximity within 1 mile of children’s homes. Detailed park characteristic information for all parks within 1 mile of the youth (n=146 parks) was obtained via observational audits. Binary logistic regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between each park proximity and park characteristic variable and the likelihood of youth meeting physical activity recommendations, while controlling individual and neighborhood level covariates. Results: All youth and female youth who had a park within one-half mile of home were more likely to achieve physical activity recommendations than those with no parks nearby. Likewise, all youth and male youth with three or more parks within 1 mile were significantly more likely to achieve physical activity recommendations than those with only 1 park. Further, youth that had a park with a playground within one-half mile or a baseball field within 1 mile of their home were more likely to achieve physical activity recommendations. Finally, having a park with particular amenities within 1 mile from home (transit stops, traffic signals, picnic tables, grills, trash cans, shade, and roads through the park) was also associated with greater odds of achieving physical activity recommendations. Conclusions: Parks are valuable community resources that can play an important role in the battle against rising rates of obesity and chronic disease in youth across the country. Better understanding the ways in which these settings are associated with physical activity among children can inform future research and environmental and policy changes that can promote the health and well-being of generations to come.
Jones, Cydnie. "Designing a neighborhood to prevent crime and increase physical activity: a case study among African-American women in Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19118.
Full textDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Hyung Jin Kim
Obesity levels—related to an increase of physical inactivity—are rapidly rising in the United States (CDC 2010; Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2008). Reportedly, African-American women have the highest obesity rates when compared to any other demographic in the United States—especially those residing in crime-plagued urban environments (CDC 2010). Yet active living strategies by designers have been least effective amongst this demographic (Day 2006). Researchers report crime-safety perceptions are one of the biggest environmental factors influencing physical activity levels amongst low-income African-American women (Foster and Giles-Corti 2008; Codinhoto 2009). Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) has been the most common practice towards an intervention of criminal activity in the built environment; however, little practice has addressed both CPTED and physical activity. While first and second generation crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) are inclusive of addressing both physical and social aspects of the built environment (Cleveland and Seville 2008; Griffin et al. 2008; Dekeseredy et al. 2009), they have yet to effectively address crime-safety needs and its potential relationship with physical activity behaviors of low-income African-American women and their neighborhoods. Therefore, what built environment changes tailored for this target population—African- American women—are necessary? This study examines 1) what crime safety perceptions of the built environment are affecting low--income African American women’s physical activity levels in Kansas City, Missouri and 2) what design solutions these women suggest could help increase their physical activity levels, through improving their perceptions of neighborhood safety. As a place-specific study on a low income neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, selected through GIS suitability analyses with literature-based criteria, this study used survey and focus group interview methods to identify the target group’s design suggestions. The findings resulted with a connection from research to design solutions—neighborhood and street-level design strategies with CPTED guidelines linking the researched participant’s perceptions of crime in their built environment to the effect of crime on their own physical activity.
Books on the topic "Kansas City, Missouri. Public Library"
Off-campus, Library Services Conference (6th 1993 Kansas City Missouri). The Sixth Off-campus Library Services Conference proceedings: Kansas City, Missouri, October 6-8, 1993. Mount Pleasant, Mich: Central Michigan University, 1993.
Find full textWeinglass, David H. Paradise illumined: Fuseli, Stothard, Westall and Burney, Milton's late 18th-century illustrators : an exhibition in the General Library of the University of Missouri--Kansas City on the occasion of the Central Renaissance Conference (5 to 8 April 1989). [Kansas City, Missouri: The Library, 1989.
Find full textMissouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, St. Louis Public Library, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37764/5776.
Full textSoward, James L. Hospital Hill: An illustrated account of public healthcare institutions in Kansas City, Missouri. Truman Medical Center Charitable Foundation, 1995.
Find full textFifty- eighth annual conference of the American Theological Library Association, Kansas City, Missouri, June 16-19, 2004. Chicago, IL: ATLA, 2004.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "Kansas City, Missouri. Public Library"
Archer, Rex, and Stacie Duitsman. "19. Housing: A Case Study in Rental Inspection Policy in Kansas City, Missouri." In Public Health Under Siege: Improving Policy in Turbulent Times. American Public Health Association, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/9780875533209ch19.
Full textRury, John L. "Fall from Grace." In Creating the Suburban School Advantage, 76–104. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501748394.003.0004.
Full textConference papers on the topic "Kansas City, Missouri. Public Library"
Harlin G Wilkin and Sandy A Mehlhorn. "Identification of High Accident Locations involving Farm Equipment on Public Roads and Similarities Among Those Locations." In 2013 Kansas City, Missouri, July 21 - July 24, 2013. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/aim.20131620600.
Full textLangaker, John T., and Byron Bakenhus. "Dual Fuel Application of SCR for Gas Turbines: LES Salt Valley." In International Joint Power Generation Conference collocated with TurboExpo 2003. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ijpgc2003-40175.
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