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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: STUDY OF HIGH-SKILL MANUFACTURING IN THE SPACE ECONOMY: UNDERSTANDING THE LOGIC OF NETWORK AND KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION THROUGH ITS CITIES
Author: Shen, Daidai
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: The study of city relations and the concept of network analysis have been a major focus in urban and economic geography for decades. Yet, we are still facing many contemporary research challenges on questions regarding the network structures defin...

Title: SUBPRIME CHARLOTTE: TRAJECTORIES OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE IN A GLOBALIZING NEW SOUTH CITY
Author: Morrell, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: This dissertation is a mixed-methods exploration of neighborhood change in Charlotte, North Carolina focused specifically on the impact of mortgage lending patterns leading up to the Great Recession of 2008 as well neoliberal policies and discours...

Title: Socio-spatial Geographies of Hispanic Immigrant Youth Accessing the Urban Labor Market
Author: Schuch, Johanna
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Geography, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This study combines interviews, questionnaires, journaling, mental mapping, and a participatory action research (PAR) project to examine the lived experiences of Hispanic immigrant youth as they navigate the labor market. Research questions addres...

Title: Spatial Patterns of Landside Trade Impedance in Containerized South American Exports
Author: Tiller, Kara
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, Transportation--Planning
Description: Scholars of Latin America's economic trajectory claim that higher domestic transportation costs stand as a significant barrier to trade and economic integration, and are primarily related to the region's inadequate transportation infrastructure. H...

Title: Spatiotemporal Modeling of Disease Spread Through Micromobility Systems
Author: nikparvar, behnam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geographic information systems, Geodesy, Geography, Epidemiology
Description: New modes of public transportation such as micromobility are rapidly growing in urban areas. Bike sharing and e-scooter sharing, for example, have been advanced to solve the first/last mile problem, providing quick access to bus stops and train st...

Title: THE IMPACT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ON HOUSING PRICES AND HOMEOWNERSHIP IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Ludden, Thomas
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, Economics
Description: At the end of the last century, the U.S. housing market was volatile. The average price of housing increased by 50 percent, while the national rate of loans entering foreclosure was 0.3 percent. Across the nation, local housing markets displayed u...

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: TONYA E. FARROW-CHESTNUT. Defining Multimorbidity Space: Structural characteristics, spatial variation of inpatient multimorbidity networks (IMN), and coronary heart disease.
Author: Farrow-Chestnut, Tonya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Government policy
Description: Adults in the United States suffer from two or more chronic conditions at the same time (i.e. multimorbidity). Multiple chronic illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, dramatically shorten life expectancy and present the i...

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 Effects of Space and Scale on Beta Convergence Testing in the United States, 1970-2004
Author: James, Ryan
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Convergence theory stems from neo-classical growth theory and hypothesizes that regional incomes will converge over time. Beta convergence, the idea that regions of initial poverty will grow faster than regions of initial wealth, has received a gr...

Title: The Influence of Road, Road Verge and Landscape Characteristics on the Occurrence of Raptor-Vehicle Collisions
Author: Bates, Jennifer
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Ecology, Wildlife conservation
Description: The increasing prevalence of roads has had a corresponding impact on the risk of road mortality for wildlife, particularly for avian species such as birds of prey that commonly make use of foraging opportunities along roadside verges. Birds of pre...

Title: The Influence of Urban Restructuring on the Social Determinants of Health in a Hispanic Immigrant Population in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Author: Urquieta de Hernandez, Brisa
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health
Description: The environment where a person lives impacts their health more than clinical care provided. (RWJF, 2013) This research posits that the determinants of health (DOH) are best understood as a combination of social, structural, spatial and temporal as...

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: The endangered red wolf (Canis rufus): spatial ecology of a critically imperiled species in a human-dominated landscape
Author: Karlin, Melissa
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Wildlife conservation, Wildlife management
Description: The purpose of this dissertation research was to analyze the ecology of thereintroduced red wolf (Canis rufus) population on the Albemarle Peninsula, NC and determine variables such as intraspecific interactions among red wolves, and how the speci...

Title: The local and landscape features associated with roost attendance and nesting success in urban black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) populations.
Author: Partridge, Hannah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Ecology
Description: Land cover changes that result from increasing urbanization alter habitat type, structure, and resource availability on local and global scales. Vultures provide important ecosystem services including disease management and nutrient cycling, makin...