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- 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
- 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 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 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 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 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 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
- 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 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
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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 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
- Spatially Explicit Hyperparameter Optimization for Neural Networks
- Author
- Zheng, Minrui
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Geodesy
- Description
- Neural networks as a commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear geographic phenomena. Howev...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- SPATIAL COMPETITION BASED ON CUSTOMERS' CHOICE HISTORIES: A STUDY OF TRADE FLOWS
- Author
- Kashiha, Mona
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geodesy, Economics, Area studies
- Description
- In a world of differentiated firms, customers with the same observable characteristics reveal different choice behaviors. This research contributes to the modeling of competition in a market characterized by spatially differentiated firms and sign...
- Title
- SPACE-TIME DYNAMICS OF SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL WATER CONSUMPTION IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Zhou, Yuhong
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Government policy, Water resources development--Management
- Description
- Water availability has become a more significant economic and policy issue in contemporary America. Although emerging as an attractive tool to water authorities, demand-side water management in urbanized areas is more complicated due to the high c...
- Title
- SOCIOECONOMIC VARIATION AND AEDES MOSQUITOES: AN EXAMINATION OF VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE RISK IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
- Author
- Whiteman, Ari
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Epidemiology
- Description
- The global proliferation of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus into novel regions represents a growing public health threat due to their capacity to transmit a variety of arboviruses including those that cause Dengue Fever (DENF), Chikungunya Feve...
- Title
- Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education, and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Author
- McDaniel, Paul
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Government policy, Education and state
- Description
- Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structures related to a community's political, economic, social, and cultural sphere...