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 urb[...]

This research analyzes different aspects of housing market dynamics and policies, focusing on the implications for inequality, housing cost, access to housing, and neighb[...]

This dissertation sought to understand uses of power embedded in gentrification processes that threaten affordable housing. Rather than an abstract force acting on its ow[...]

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 de[...]

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. Ove[...]

Developed countries witnessed an 80% expansion of urban land use between 1990 and 2015. This is leading to degradation of ecosystems and habitats, resulting in a general [...]

The "Urban Stream Syndrome" is a term that refers to a group of predictable negative impacts to stream ecosystems due to the alteration of the natural hydrologic regime t[...]

Neural networks as a commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively [...]

This dissertation consists of two consecutive parts. The first part examines the impact of light rail transit (LRT) investment on the type of jobs (i.e., industrial and w[...]

This dissertation is a mixed-methods exploration of neighborhood change in Charlotte, North Carolina focused specifically on the impact of mortgage lending patterns leadi[...]