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Title: COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
Subjects--Topical: Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
Description: This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces, and residential areas, and lockdown measures in 88 countries aroun...

Title: Densification without growth management? Evidence from local land development and housing trends in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Delmelle, Elizabeth, Zhou, Yuhong
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: North Carolina--Charlotte, City planning
Description: In urban America, land development and residential real estate have passed through a number of different phases during the post-WWII era. In contemporary discourse on urban sustainability, attention is often expressed in terms of intensity of land...

Title: Five approaches to social sustainability and an integrated way forward
Author: Boyer, Robert, Peterson, Nicole, Caldwell, Kevin, Arora, Poonam
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: Sustainability is often conceived of as an attempt to balance competing economic, environmental and social priorities. Over the course of three decades of scholarship, however, the meaning and appropriate application of the ‘social pillar’ continu...

Title: Spatiotemporal evaluation of the built environment's impact on commuting duration
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Commuting, Residential mobility
Description: Upward trends in commuting duration and distance due to urban sprawl in the United States have raised concerns about the ensuing environmental, social and economic problems. Various urban planning approaches have been developed, hypothesizing that...

Title: Tourism and sustainability in the evaluation of World Heritage Sites, 1980–2010
Author: Schmutz, Vaughn, Elliott, Michael A.
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: World Heritage areas, Sustainable tourism
Description: At present, there are myriad concerns about tourism and sustainability at cultural and natural world heritage sites. Based on an analysis of 811 evaluations written between 1980 and 2010 by two official advisory bodies to the World Heritage Commit...