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- Title
- A Macro-Level Analysis of Traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Urban Areas
- Author
- Najaf, Pooya
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, City planning
- Description
- The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information fo...
- Title
- A mixed-methods analysis of social-ecological feedbacks between urbanization and forest persistence
- Author
- Thill, Jean-Claude
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Urban forestry
- Description
- We examined how social-ecological factors in the land-change decision-making process influenced neighboring decisions and trajectories of alternative landscape ecologies. We decomposed individual landowner decisions to conserve or develop forests ...
- 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
- Cluster Requiem and the Rise of Cumulative Growth Theory
- Author
- Kunkle, Gary
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Public administration
- Description
- Industry cluster theory has been the predominant model guiding economic development policy throughout the world for nearly two decades. As appealing as the cluster approach has been to regional scientists and policy makers it suffers from a number...
- 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
- EVALUATING POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS IN URBAN STREAMS BASED ON PRECIPITATION, NETWORK OF STORMWATER BMPs, AND IMPERVIOUS COVER
- Author
- Venugopal, Manish
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Environmental engineering, Water resources development--Management
- Description
- The increase in impervious surfaces accompanying urban development in the recent decade has caused an increase in the volume of stormwater runoff and pollutant loads flowing downstream to receiving waters. In response to increased volumes of impai...
- Title
- EXTERNAL EFFECTS OF INNOVATION ON FIRM SURVIVAL: EVIDENCE FROM COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCT MANUFACTURING AND HEALTHCARE
- Author
- Tsvetkova, Alexandra
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Government policy, Public administration
- Description
- This dissertation investigates the effects of innovation in the U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) on survival chances of standalone non-patenting firms. Extensive literature argues that knowledge spillovers are likely to be present in aggl...
- 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
- HYDROGEN POWER FOR LIGHT RAIL OPERATION: OPERATIONAL FEASIBILITY AND PRACTICAL APPLICABILITY
- Author
- Washing, Edward
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, City planning, Renewable energy sources
- Description
- As urban areas continue to grow and become denser, transit will be vital in the success and progress of metropolitans. Light rail, particularly in the United States, has become a popular mode of transportation that efficiently and reliably moves p...
- 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
- Investigating the Determinants of Autonomous Vehicles and Their Potential Impacts on Travel Behaviors and Land Use Distribution
- Author
- Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, City planning, Land use--Planning
- Description
- Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are imminent and they are not in people’s dreams now. Now the burning questions the research community is interested in include how quickly AVs would be implemented for public use, whether people would accept them, and ho...
- Title
- LIBRARY OF THINGS (LoT) - AN URBAN SYSTEM MODEL FOR RECONCEPTUALIZING THE ROLE AND SPATIALIZATION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
- Author
- Nelson, Alexandra
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Information technology, Architecture
- Description
- As the public library system struggles to find support in the age Google and Amazon, their impact through crucial resources and personalized support from library staff prove their undeniable value in cities -- especially for those without internet...
- 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
- MODELING TRAVEL DEMAND AND CRASHES AT MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC LEVELS
- Author
- Duddu, Venkata Ramana
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, City planning, Transportation--Planning
- Description
- Accurate travel demand / Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) and crash predictions helps planners to plan, propose and prioritize infrastructure projects for future improvements. Existing methods are based on demographic characteristics, socio-eco...
- Title
- Methods to Estimate Link Level Travel Based on Spatial Effects
- Author
- Kusam, Prasanna
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, City planning, Transportation--Planning
- Description
- Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) is used in several planning, roadway design, operational and safety analyses by transportation planners and engineers. Existing methods are very complex and do not adequately address the modeling needs. Errors a...
- Title
- Modeling Bicycle-Vehicle Crash Frequency on Urban Roads
- Author
- Mukoko, Kanya
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation, City planning
- Description
- Bicyclists and motorists make mistakes that contribute to traffic crashes involving bicyclists on urban roads. The likelihood of a bicyclist being severely injured or killed daily in traffic crashes is creating fear, anxiety, and becoming a potent...
- Title
- Modeling Freeway Level-of-Service based on Travel Time and Travel Time Reliability
- Author
- Imran, Md. Shah
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Transportation, City planning
- Description
- The assessment of operational performance is a challenge for the local transportation agencies and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) due to the dynamic nature in traffic movement. As demand approaches to the capacity of a roadway (or of t...
- Title
- Nature and Public School Students: Examining the Link between Academic Functioning and School Nature
- Author
- Scott, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, City planning, Social sciences
- Description
- Although research has demonstrated that nature exposure (i.e., environments with natural features such as vegetation or greenspace) has the potential to improve individuals’ psychological and physical well-being, little research has investigated 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...