... into places we can no longer afford. Many of us are just now recognizing the effects of "Gentrification" the term coined for the redevelopment or as some may call it "urban regeneration." Our local stores, lots, and buildings we live in are being ... price tag to match. The essence and history of our neighborhoods are being demolished with every new building put in our neighborhoods. The plan for gentrification was put into the works long before anyone was able to realize what it actually meant and what the effects would be. Urban ... leadership. Transactional leadership is a leader that...

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... was a large body of water, approximately sixty feet deep and fed by an underground fresh water spring. According to historians it was a popular place for picnics and relaxation. A bridge was erected over one of the outgoing canals called the "kissing bridge" (Peter Brightbill, Historian2). Collect Pond ... , debauchery and other descriptive words that kept them in, historically, the first slum of America. That is what the Five Points are remembered for; the rowdy, disgusting, unsafe community in lower Manhattan during the nineteenth century where races, cultures and politics clashed daily...

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