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Title: Assessing community resilience at the neighborhood level in new construction starter-homes in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Author: Currie, Melissa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning, Social sciences--Research
Description: This research explores the resiliency of new construction, "starter-home" neighborhoods using the Charlotte, North Carolina area as a study location. Such developments are characterized by nearly identical homes priced at $150,000 or less (a local...

Title: Better access to parks to improve population health in Mecklenburg County, NC
Author: Dony, Coline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, City planning
Description: Better access to parks can increase our level of physical activity. Increasingly aware of this association and its impact on community health; urban leaders started incorporating access to parks as an indicator of quality of life. However, two stu...

Title: Environmental impacts of rapid urbanization: Non-point source pollution in Lingang New City, Shanghai, China
Author: Meng, Xuchu
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning
Description: Lingang New City is a new urbanization project in Shanghai, China. It is planned and designed artistically with emphasis on water protection given lake view is the highlight of the landscape. However, water quality degrades soon after the urban de...

Title: Impacts of Light Rail Investment on Commercial Landscapes in Transit Neighborhoods
Author: Shepard, Elina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Geography, City planning
Description: City governments across the country invest in rail transit to provide localized access to vital facilities for vulnerable groups of their populations, and to encourage development around transit lines and stations (Transit Oriented Development). S...

Title: Learning and understanding empowerment planning: An emergent model that builds community capacity to affect neighborhood planning outcomes
Author: Bengle, Tara
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning
Description: This research explores empowerment planning (Reardon, 1996) for the purpose of adding to its body of theory, in order to build better, more inclusive planning processes. Through this research I develop a more nuanced understanding of empowerment p...

Title: PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY ON MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE: LINKING SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND SEA LEVEL RISE
Author: Stuber, Robyn
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning, Sustainability
Description: Sustainability science is a growing field that encompasses the study of the environment, the economy, and social equity. However, with the ever-growing literature base surrounding sustainability, defining the issue has continued to be elusive, esp...

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: 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 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: 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...