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The Urban Morphology Of Northwest Arkansas: A Geospatial Analysis, Jason Mccollum
The Urban Morphology Of Northwest Arkansas: A Geospatial Analysis, Jason Mccollum
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Research on the impacts of transport infrastructure is limited, and most of it is either focused on
rural areas or on developed areas before modern geospatial technologies were available. This study aimed
to fill this gap in transport research by providing a holistic look at the regional changes that occurred due to
new transport infrastructure construction in Northwest Arkansas between 1980 and 2011.
The National Land Cover Database was used to create a time-series of land cover across the
region between 1992 and 2011. These data were then used to predict future growth in the region.
Additionally, growth patterns of …