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Title: SPATIAL TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE: CHARLOTTE, NC
Author: Delmelle, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, City planning
Description: Quality of life (QoL) is an encompassing measure of a neighborhood's condition, describing the well-being an individual may expect by residing in a particular place. Over time, some or all of these conditions will change for the better or worse, y...

Title: STRUCTURAL ESTIMATIONS OF PRICE-OCCUPANCY RELATIONSHIP IN URBAN PARKING SYSTEMS
Author: Muraleedharan, Adarsh
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Statistics, City planning
Description: Parking is a significant facet of the urban transportation system, with a collective revenue of nearly $30 billion in the United States by the end of 2018. Motivated by the inter-temporal demand and supply imbalance as well as the sub-optimal park...

Title: THE INFLUENCES OF URBAN FORMS ON RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION: A DEMAND-SIDE FORECASTING METHOD FOR ENERGY SCENARIOS
Author: Ali, Amr
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Geography, City planning
Description: Current trends in energy demand impose increasing stress on the socio-ecological state of developed countries like the U.S. A major challenge lies in how to efficiently manage energy resources in a sustainable way to protect the environment. Vario...

Title: The Butterfly Highway: Connecting People and Nature
Author: Hjarding, Angelique
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning, Conservation biology
Description: Many residents in African American neighborhoods in Charlotte, NC, struggle to meet basic needs and lack the capacity to address other quality of life issues such as beautification, social capital, and environmental justice. Urban wildlife, includ...

Title: The Correlates of Congestion: Investigating the Links between Congestion and Urban Area Characteristics
Author: Fields, Milton
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning, Transportation--Planning
Description: Traffic congestion is a major quality of life issue, as well as being a major drain on productivity and urban competitiveness. This exploratory research seeks to identify the set of urban characteristics that are most correlated with traffic conge...

Title: The Economic Impact of Spatial Income Inequality
Author: Li, Huiping
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Economics, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Spatial income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income across communities. This study broadens the concept to include residential segregation, central city-suburban income disparity, and government fragmentation. Combining the comp...

Title: The best deal in town? Associations between public housing and labor market inequality in the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner MSA
Author: Gleave, Sara
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning
Description: Economic inequality for racial and ethnic minority groups, exacerbated by their spatial segregation, has been a central focus in urban geography. While there is accumulating research examining the socio-spatial process of urban labor market inequa...

Title: Transit Riders and Access to Bus Service: A Neighborhood Analysis
Author: Wells, Kirstin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Public administration, Transportation--Planning
Description: Intra-jurisdictional delivery of publicly provided services often results in observable differences in service levels that vary by spatial subunit (neighborhood). These variations are related to the socio-demographic characteristics of neighborhoo...

Title: Urban Dynamics: Longitudinal Causal Relationships And Future Time Series Forecasting
Author: Hatami, Faizeh
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: City planning
Description: Studying urban dynamics is essential given the ever-increasing changes in urban areas with all its ensuing consequences, whether negative or positive. It is of paramount importance to take into account the temporal dimension of urban dynamics when...

Title: Urban Form and Air Quality: A Fine-Scale Look at 22 Major U.S. Cities
Author: Blomquist, Evan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Remote sensing, City planning
Description: Common pollutants present in cities, such as nitrogen dioxide (NO2), can cause a variety of adverse human health outcomes. Urban form (e.g., land cover and its spatial patterns) is a crucial factor contributing to air quality. There have been effo...

Title: VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: DO PEOPLE CHOOSE RESIDENTIAL DESTINATIONS BASED ON NATURALLY OCCURRING ADVANTAGES OR MAN-MADE ADVANTAGES OF LOCATIONS?
Author: Canales, Kristine Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Government policy, Economics
Description: Local economies benefit from attracting in-migration either as workforce or as consumers. To compete for constituents, local economies need to provide attractive tax policy and expenditure bundles. An important consideration in this regard is the ...