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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Land Use Restrictions and Segregation: The Effect of Single-Family Zoning in Austin

Publication Date
2023-May-02
Authors
Case, Noah
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

I study the effect of zoning on segregation in Austin, Texas. I use municipal data on zoning for each address in Austin, and census data on demographics. I find that a one standard deviation increase in single-family zoning in a...

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Queer Hermeneutics for an Unbound Temporality: Schools as Passageway

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Murphy, Andrew Thomas
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Queer theorists have posited that normativity is involved in a spatial practice. American society has taken great care to assign different levels of value to different identities as well as to the time and space they inhabit. Inequitable structures of...

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