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The Pulitzer Prize (2011, Zhou Long’s Madame White Snake), a Metropolitan opera commission (Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, premiered 2006), and the Ives Living Award (Chen Yi, 2001) are just some of the high-profile awards and commission bestowed upon Chinese émigré composers who …

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the efforts to revive the traditional downtown through the National Main Street Program. The study looks at the role of the historic downtowns and Main Street programs in small communities, their importance and contribution in aiding citi…

New-build construction is causing an expansion in the presence of gentrification and displacement in urban neighborhoods across the United States. The dominant explanation for this trend is urban renewal. Previous research has focused on neighborhood transitions in economic clas…