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URBAN STUDIES

HT 9999

"Urban Studies" is the general category name for theses and dissertations done at UWM from this department; the category includes Urban Affairs and Urban Social Institutions. The base call number for all titles in this list is HT 9999. This list is current as of 29 February 2008. More current titles may be searched in the Library Catalog, by a known author or title, or the base call number. The list is in call number order, which approximates an alphabetical list by author's last name. Doctoral dissertations are indicated by a (Ph.D.) at the end; all others are master's theses unless otherwise specified. All items are from the department "Urban Studies" unless noted in the entry; other specialties are as given in the thesis.

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HT 9999 .A315xAkpan, Samuel G.    Development of the structural complexity of an interorganizational arrangement: the case of the Municipal Health Services Program in Milwaukee, by Samuel George Akpan. 1989. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .A377xAlexander, Margaret Lopp.    Perceptions of independence: public health nurses and hospital staff nurses in a metropolitan setting. 1988. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .A443xAlly, Akbar.    Equal opportunity programs for black students in public urban universities: a case study. 1981. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .A831xAshwood, Patrick George.    Downtown redevelopment, the public-private partnership, and the downtown mall solution: a comparison of the redevelopment process in Minneapolis and Milwaukee. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .A989xAyubi, Yolanda.    U.S. Hispanic ethnogenesis and socio-political mobilization. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .B2142x 2006Banda, Anne E.    Tale of two cities: public library development in Milwaukee and Montreal, by Anne Elizabeth Banda. 2006. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .B364xBazzell, Sally.    Diffusion of an innovation: networking for computer safety legislation. 1990. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .B393x 1997Beck, Barbra Joane.    Non-financial barriers to access to health care and their impact on hospitalization for asthma. 1997. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .B433xBell, Gary William.    Social activism in United Methodist local churches: individualistic and structural programs and the role of the church in American society. 1987. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .B4964x 2005Berger, Lisa.    Alcohol and the workplace: the relationship between work environment and employee alcohol problems, by Lisa Kay Berger. 2005. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .B534xBerry-Caban, Cristobal S., 1953-     Puerto Rican strategies for survival: work and kinship among esperancenos in Milwaukee. 1981. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .B658x 1997Blumenfield, Barbara Sue.    Towns and town administrators in Wisconsin. 1997. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .B6634x 1999Bobel, Christina G.    Way back home: an exploration of the roots and meaning of natural mothering. 1999. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .B711x 1998Bonds, Michael.    Vanishing hope: race, politics and the distribution of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds in Milwaukee, 1975-1997. 1998. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .B724xBoone-Smith, Carol Yvonne.    Cross-generational analysis of occupational mobility patterns and of the determinants of mobility for blacks and whites in Milwaukee 1960-1980: the migration legacy. 1984. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .B8254x 1999Braun, Mark Edward.    Social change and the empowerment of the poor: poverty representation in Milwaukee's community action programs, 1964-1972. 1999. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .B891xBrugger, William F.    Ecocommunities: a typological analysis of human habitats in transition. 1982. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .B935xBull, Margaret J.    Implementation of DRG-based prospective reimbursement: health care providers' response, by Margaret Jane Bull. 1986. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .B9934x 2004Byers, Stephen Robert.    Diverse community, diverse newspapers: how Milwaukee's Black press reflected its diversity, 1968-2002. 2004. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .C198x 1995Campopiano, Ronald P.    Self perceived effectiveness of equal opportunity and affirmative action professionals in higher education. 1995. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .C495 2005Chatterjee, Sutapa.    Community indicators (CI): how much do they bridge information gaps in policy-making?: an assessment of current CI projects within the United States. 2005. (Urban Planning)
HT 9999 .C512xChavez-Marquez, Manuel.    State, elites and urban development: the political economy of the U.S.-Mexican border. 1993. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .C947xCronk, Virginia M.    Small business philanthropy. 1988. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .C9475xCronkhite, Linda M.    Role of the hospital nurse administrator in a changing health care environment: a study of values and conflicts. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .C998x 1995Czarnezki, Mary Ann.    Creating aspirations in school: a comparative study of two preadolescent classrooms in an urban public school system. 1995. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .D166xDamte, Assefa.    Urbanization in Ethiopia: pre and post revolution experience. 1993. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .D281Dean, Dorothy K.    Women and work: sexism and under employment. 1973. (Urban Affairs)
HT 9999 .D2888 2001DeBruin, Diana.    Culturally relevant teaching practices and their potential impact on urban students. 2001.
HT 9999 .D5786x 2006Dilley, Lorna J.    Still in place: housing and neighborhood experiences among one city's poor mothers after welfare's end, by Lorna Jean Dilley. 2006. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .D7784x 2006Dreyer, Steven Curtis.    From socio-educational theory to dynamics of practice: the evolution of the nursery education voucher scheme in Norfolk, England, 1995-1997. 2006. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .D9925xDwyer, Daniel P., 1946-    Who will bell the cat?: the social control of medical error. 1989. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .D993xDwyer, Marie Wolff.    No margin, no mission: conflict, commitment and organizational restructuring in a Catholic hospital. 1989. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .E16x 1998Ebert, Thomas George.    Treatment of the insane in Wisconsin: a case study of two county asylums, 1890-1933. 1998. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .F1978x 2004Falvey, Patrick D.    Care management in complex organizations: intraorganizational relationships and the legitimization of integrated healthcare delivery systems. 2004. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .F331 1996Fendt, Pamela Sue.    Analysis of conservative assumptions in the welfare reform debate: a Wisconsin case study. 1996.
HT 9999 .F535x 1997Fisher, Patricia.    Borders, barriers, and ambassadors: a view of economic restructuring from within the private sector. 1997. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .F751x 1997Foss-Mollan, Kathleen.    Perceptions of need: politics, the media and water policy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1870-1995. 1997. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .F866x 1997Freitag, Raelene.    Peril and promise of nineteenth century child protection: the Wisconsin Humane Society, 1879-1920. 1997. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .G2513x 2007Gass, Eric.    Path to partnership: assessing a new model of university community partnerships, by Eric Tyler Gass. 2007. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .G633Gomez, Eloisa.    Historic origins and contemporary realities of racial disparity in Milwaukee's mortgage lending market: 1930s to present. 1995.
HT 9999 .G8838x 2004Grover, Michael R.    End of politics: the rise and fall of the East Side Housing Action Coalition (ESHAC), 1970-1998, by Michael Ross Grover. 2004. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .G974xGumz, Edward.    Quest for rationality: professionals and their work in the family court, by Edward Rudolph John Gumz. 1986. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .G9843 2000Gutierrez, Sigfredo R.    Descriptive analysis of sectoral projects. 2000.
HT 9999 .G986x 1996Guy, Roger Stephen.    Diversity to unity: Uptown's southern migrants, 1950-1970. 1996. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .H141xHagedorn, John Martin.    Altar of bureaucracy: the meaning of reform in the social services. 1993. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .H148xHahn, Susan Lauren.    Governing boards, executive directors and organizational environments. 1981. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .H243xHannah, Frederick Marvin.    Junior Academy of Medicine: a case study of a preparatory program for the discipline of medicine, by Frederick Marvin Hannah, Sr. 1985. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .H3147x 2005Harris, James M.    Nonprofits, privatization, and the institutional context of welfare reform: an ethnographic study of a settlement house neighborhood center, by James Morrison Harris. 2005. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .H522xHenry, Gary T.    Development in small cities: into the federal web. 1981. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .H6316 2001Hicks-Sorenson, Brenda L.    Politics of affordable housing in Washington County. 2001.
HT 9999 .H666xHintz, Marilyn Beryl.    Women's place in the vision, planning and development of the new towns in England. 1989. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .H7448x 2007Holloway, Chuck.    Neighborhood resurrection: urban gentrification, race, class, and spatial politics in Milwaukee's Brewers Hill, by Chuckson D. Holloway. 2007. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .H745 1996Holloway, Jacqueline R.    Fatal and nonfatal firearm injury: a public health concern. 1996.
HT 9999 .H758Holton, Douglas A.    Arson and poor neighborhoods, a lethal combination: an analysis of the relationship between the incidence of arson and deterioration of segregated, poor, black neighborhoods in the City of Milwaukee. 1995.
HT 9999 .I78xIsely, Timothy F.    Passing the buck: the process of social welfare resource allocation at the local level. 1990. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .J675x 2004Johnson, Johnnie M.    School choice and urban reform: a case study of Milwaukee's parental choice program and black student achievement, by Johnnie Mae Johnson. (Ph.D.) 2004.
HT 9999 .K28xKeith, Carolyn Cordy.    Caring for the older parent: transformation of the family into a parentcare system. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .K64xKleinman, Lynne H.    Milwaukee-Downer College: a study in the history of women and the history of higher education in America, 1851-1964. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .K795x 1998Kok, Anne Hammink.    Shelter workers and the battered women's movement. 1998. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .K89xKraegel, Wilfred A.    Community goals projects: citizen participation in urban planning (Milwaukee case study). 1987. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .K949x 2000Krzewinski, Michael G.    Historical development and effects of affirmative action on the city of Milwaukee Police Department. 2000. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .K9495x 2001Ksobiech, Kate.    Societal impact of needle exchange programs: a meta-analysis. 2001. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .K95xKubsch, Sylvia May.    Nursing: the enactment of a shared reality. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .K96xKuperberg, James R.    Policy implications of health consumer choice of primary care service. 1982. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .K996x 2003Kyomugisha, Florence G.    HIV high risk African-American women: their attitudes and beliefs about heterosexual relationships, by Florence Gareeba Kyomugisha. 2003. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .L244xLancaster, Kenneth Gentry.    Care, control, and the therapeutic workplace: a study of discourse in employee assistance programs (EAPS). 1994. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .L383xLaures, Robert Anthony.    Environmental law in pre-plague North Italian cities. 1987. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .L4796 2000Lee, Rose Marie.    Over-representation of African-American children in Milwaukee County foster care system. 2000.
HT 9999 .L7353 2006Lin, I-Hui.    Impacts of urban universities on neighborhood housing values. 2006.
HT 9999 .L795xLo, Albert S.    Private sector decision-making patterns: a case study. 1983. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .L7953x 2000Lo, Fungchatou (Laotou) T.    Promised land: socioeconomic adjustment of the Hmong in Milwaukee, 1976-2000. 2000. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .L8144 1999Locke, Kenneth A.    Community transformation: the development and es of spiritual and secular transformation in an attempt to transform the city of Port Washingtion, Wisconsin. 1999.
HT 9999 .L887xLough, Mary Ann.    From hospital to home: professional plans and patient work. 1989. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .M167xMcManus, Patricia Taylor.    Macrolevel examination of cultural competency characteristics of selected health care institutions in the City of Milwaukee, 1989-1991: the potential role of cultural competency in reducing the persistent gap in Black and White infant mortality rates. 1993. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .M293xMantyh, Mark R.    Bureaucratization of indigent defense. 1994. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .M3823x 2003Martin, Michael Edward.    Residential segregation patterns of Latinos in the United States 1990-2000: testing the ethnic enclave and inequality theories. 2003. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .M515xMeisenheimer, Claire Gavin.    Indices of quality in home health care: perceptions of clients, nurses and administrators. 1987. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .M613 1995Meyer, James A.    Evaluation of deep discount transit programs and their application to large employers, case study: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee UPASS program. 1995. (Urban Planning)
HT 9999 .M637xMilazzo, Nancy Lynn.    Health service utilization by the elderly. 1986. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .M734xMona, William C.    Analysis of historic preservation and planning policy in Milwaukee, 1964-1994. 1995. (Ph. D.)
HT 9999 .M9545x 2003Mulder, Mark Timothy.    Dissonant faith: the exodus of reformed Dutch churches from the south side of Chicago. 2003. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .N175xNana-Fabu, Stella.    Status of women in Cameroon: a historical perspective. 1987. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .N337xNduom, Papa Kwesi.    Women in municipal management: Milwaukee municipal work force. 1982. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .N534 1996Newberry, Michael Dennis.    Geographic information system program management and implementation. 1996.
HT 9999 .N8174 2000Noonan, Patrick Kevin.    Immigration from sub-saharan Africa to the United States during the 1990s. 2000. (Urban Studies)
HT 9999 .N946xNowak, Barbara Jean.    Variables impacting the discretionary decisions made by juvenile court gatekeepers. 1993. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .O13xO'Bryant, Albert.    Historically black college: its relevance as an urban educational institution. 1982. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .O18x 1996O'Connor, Sally Ann.    Impact of gender in the mortgage credit market. 1996. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .O54xOmari, Abdalla Mansy.    Market society of greater Syrian cities in the later Middle Ages (1250-1517). 1986. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .O59xOnyenwoke, Nelson Onyegbula.    Urban development and quality of life of the elderly. 1982. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .P278xPascek, Louis J.    Milwaukee Regional Medical Center: growth and development. 1982. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .P3178x 2002Patterson, Kelly Lenore.    African American women overcoming discrimination: the effects of racial identity, social support, and self esteem on life satisfaction. 2002. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .P637xPilarzyk, Thomas.    Seeking help in the metropolis: a study of coping strategies in cosmopolitan neighborhoods, by Thomas James Pilarzyk. 1986. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .P7127x 1999Plano, John A.    Communities of interest: making metropolitan hospital markets in Milwaukee and Toronto 1969-1994. 1999. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .P71271 1987Plano, John A.    Employment and training policy constraints and issues : recommendations for a national policy and implications for Milwaukee County. 1987.
HT 9999 .P886xPowell, William E.    Closure and Wisconsin nursing: a case study of entry into practice. 1987. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .Q7xQuinn, Lois M.    GED: the test that became an institution. 1990. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions) (3c)
HT 9999 .R1993 2001Ranker, Ryan Donald.    Car salesman and a white elephant, brewing up trouble in Milwaukee: the mythical promises of publicly subsidized Major League Baseball stadiums and the reality. 2001.
HT 9999 .R813x 1998Rosen, Michael David.    A.O. Smith Corporation and AFL-CIO Directly Affiliated Local 19806: a study of labor-management cooperation in the era of globalization and lean production. 1998. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .S192xSampson-Malone, Pamela Jane.    Socioeconomic status, family culture, and academic achievement: a study of black and white pupil performance at an interracial school. 1985. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .S218xSandoval, Pamela A.    Educational attainment and expected economic well-being of college mothers, age 17 through 25, by Pamela Ann Sandoval. 1990. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .S235xSantiago, Anne Akulicz de.    Residential segregation of Spanish origin populations: a study of recent trends in a sample of U.S. cities, by Anne M. Akulicz de Santiago. 1984. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .S298x 1996Schall, David John.    Investigation into the relationship between municipal police residency requirements, professionalism, economic conditions and equal employment goals. 1996. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .S311xScharmach, Leonard R.    Framing the news: news as an agent of corporate legitimation. 1983. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .S318xScheible, Linda Frances Lockett.    Role of state government in economic development: an analysis of the Wisconsin Strategic Development Commission. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .S5453x 2004Shelley, Nealon Mark.    Invisible Vietnamese: ethic community and assimilation in Milwaukee. 2004. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .S5843 2006Silletti, Leslie C.    February 2000 U.S. Leather shutdown and its effects on the employees of Pfister & Vogel and A.L. Gebhardt tanneries. 2006.
HT 9999 .S587x 1997Silverman, Robert Mark.    Doing business in minority markets: black and Korean entrepreneurs in Chicago's ethnic beauty aids industry. 1997. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .S617xSingamkutti-Arachchige-Don, Neville.    Emerging patterns of urban community structures and their policy implications in South Asia, with special reference to Sri Lanka. 1990. (Ph.D, Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .S694 1998Somerscales, David Euan Varn.    Forging alliances: a historical and contemporary examination of social movement unionism as it relates to the Milwaukee County Labor Council and Campaign for a Sustainable Milwaukee. 1998.
HT 9999 .S795xStaral, Janice Marquard.    Signs of hope and struggle: action research in a racially-mixed central city church. 1995. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .S816xStefancic, David R.    Robotnik: a history of two trends in the Polish labor movement, 1944-1981. 1990. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .V225Vande Walle, Lara L.    Analysis of community development corporations and their networks. 1995.
HT 9999 .V2932x 1999Varela, Olmedo J.    Examining patterns of neighborhood change in the city of Milwaukee, 1980-1990: an ecological approach 1999. (Ph.D.)
HT 9999 .W134Wagner, Matthew Lee.    Analysis of business locator decisions: does racism play a role? 1995.
HT 9999 .W423xWeingrod, David.    Politics of corporate tax reductions: a history of the Wisconsin manufacturer's machinery and equipment exemption. 1988. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .W426xWeis, Darlene Thier.    Health care for the uninsured: health status and resource utilization. 1988. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .W469Wenders, Christopher J.    Decision-making in human service non-profit organizations. 1992. (Urban Affairs)
HT 9999 .W635xWichowski, Harriet Conley.    Professional adaptation: the case of nursing. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .W655xWigg, Joan Peterson.    Women's work and family commitment. 1981. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .W664xWilberg, Janice K.    Doing what's right: public policy and indigent health care in Milwaukee County. 1986. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .W723xWilliams, Gary Lee.    Black professional in Milwaukee: a descriptive analysis. 1991. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
HT 9999 .W7233 2002Williams, Gerald L.    Effects of changing demographics on nonprofit housing developers in Milwaukee, 1990-2000. 2002.
HT 9999 .Y763 2002Young, Staci A.    Milwaukee County General Assistance Medical Program (GAMP): a policy evaluation from the patient's perspective. 2002.
HT 9999 .Z21xZakhar, Arlene Alice.    Urban university and Native Americans in higher education. 1987. (Ph.D., Urban Social Institutions)
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