Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida by Cameron B. LeBlanc

“…This multimedia essay surveys digital resources documenting the heyday of Ybor City, Florida. Thanks to labor from Spain, Italy, and Cuba, Ybor City (located slightly east of central Tampa) became the "Cigar Capital of the World" in the early twentieth century. …”
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The Tampa "Smart CCTV" Experiment by Kelly Gates

“…In June 2001, a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida called Ybor City became the first urban area in the United States to be fitted with a "Smart CCTV" system. …”
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Queering the City: Understanding Gravitational Forces by Petra L. Doan

“…This paper uses examples drawn from US cities (Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia, and Ybor City in Tampa, Florida) to develop a more generalizable framework within which to analyze the process of queering a neighborhood and identifying policy measures that might keep it queer. …”
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Re-constructing place and community : urban heritage and the symbolic politics of neighborhood revitalization by Serda, Daniel

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