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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Economic Impact of Spatial Income Inequality
Author: Li, Huiping
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Economics, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Spatial income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income across communities. This study broadens the concept to include residential segregation, central city-suburban income disparity, and government fragmentation. Combining the comp...

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: Transit Riders and Access to Bus Service: A Neighborhood Analysis
Author: Wells, Kirstin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Public administration, Transportation--Planning
Description: Intra-jurisdictional delivery of publicly provided services often results in observable differences in service levels that vary by spatial subunit (neighborhood). These variations are related to the socio-demographic characteristics of neighborhoo...

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...