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The Storytelling Of Public Spaces: Rhetoric, Community, And Social Change, Lindsay Kathryn Hamilton Jan 2016

The Storytelling Of Public Spaces: Rhetoric, Community, And Social Change, Lindsay Kathryn Hamilton

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This Dissertation examines how public art, broadly defined, contributes to the dialogue of public places. It assumes that public places are filled with rhetoric--from commercial, governmental, private, and other sources. This rhetoric is mainly concerned with the public as audience, receivers of information who are then expected to act in certain ways - following the directions of street signs or entering shops when a window display attracts their attention, for example. Public art, particularly community-based art, can be used to make public places more democratic, providing platforms for people and communities to talk back and reassert their identities. The case …


Impacts Of Transportation Infrastructure Proximity And Accessibility On Real Property Values, Arturo Bujanda Jan 2014

Impacts Of Transportation Infrastructure Proximity And Accessibility On Real Property Values, Arturo Bujanda

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Investments in public infrastructure such as highways, airports, mass transit, and stadiums can increase adjacent property values, generating a value premium for private developers and adjacent property owners. A portion of this value can be "captured" as public revenue via property taxes to assist financing such improvements. States and local governments aim to anticipate and capture the economic value created by transportation accessibility. While value capture (VC) represents an opportunity for regional agencies to recapture some transportation infrastructure costs, it is not clear how much value is added by the infrastructure in a particular region. This research applies geographic weighted …


Transport Manager Responsibilities And Risk Based Insurance Analysis, Ivana Simkova Jan 2012

Transport Manager Responsibilities And Risk Based Insurance Analysis, Ivana Simkova

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This thesis addresses the issue of the responsibility of the transport manager. The transport manager´s conditions which have to be respected during his/ her work are analyzed. The transport manager is responsible for the decisions made during the whole transportation process. Individual decisions are evaluated and a probabilistic estimate of their importance is determined. A methodology for insurance for the transport manager is proposed.


Public Investment And Economic Growth In El Paso, Azucena Gonzalez Monzon Jan 2011

Public Investment And Economic Growth In El Paso, Azucena Gonzalez Monzon

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This research focuses on the impact from public capital stock on economic growth in El Paso, Texas. A time series analysis is used to gauge the dynamic relationship between public infrastructure and the productivity of this city's economy. An Error Correction model and a Vector Error Correction model are utilized to discover short-run and long-run impacts from public capital stock on the growth of this particular economy. The Vector Autoregressive model is used to determine causality amongst the variables and to determine the structure of this economy. This research finds that public infrastructure growth actually follows economic growth and private …


Methodology To Convert A Transportation Planning Origin-Destination Matrix Into A Microscopic Traffic Simulation Origin-Destination Matrix, Jose Osiris Vidana-Bencomo Jan 2011

Methodology To Convert A Transportation Planning Origin-Destination Matrix Into A Microscopic Traffic Simulation Origin-Destination Matrix, Jose Osiris Vidana-Bencomo

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Microscopic traffic simulation (MTS) is a cost-effective approach for the evaluation of traffic conditions in urban highways networks. In MTS models, traffic demand that is entered into the network is specified by one or several Origin-Destination (O-D) matrices. A major challenge in the application of MTS for large urban networks is the specification of the O-D matrices. This dissertation proposes a methodology that may be used to transform a O-D matrix from a transportation planning model (which is based on Traffic Analysis Zone, or TAZ, and is readily available) into a O-D matrix for a MTS model (which is traffic …


Hedonic Housing Prices In Ciudad Juarez, Karen P. Fierro Jan 2008

Hedonic Housing Prices In Ciudad Juarez, Karen P. Fierro

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Studies of the valuation of housing attributes abound. Empirical studies of this nature for Latin America and Mexico are less common. This study utilizes data for 175 new houses in Ciudad Juarez to estimate a hedonic pricing model. All units in the sample were completed and sold between November 2006 and April 2007. For each house, a total of fourteen characteristics, both structural and locational, are employed as explanatory variables. Empirical results indicate that the structural characteristics play a bigger role than the neighborhood amenities. Surprisingly, neighborhood parks are found to lower housing values


John F. Worley & Co's El Paso Directory For 1906, John F. Worley & Co. Jan 1905

John F. Worley & Co's El Paso Directory For 1906, John F. Worley & Co.

El Paso City Directories

Containing a General Directory of the Citizens and Business Firms Alphabetically Arranged, a Classified Business Directory, a Complete Street Guide and Miscellaneous Information of Value to Citizens and Strangers.


John F. Worley & Co's El Paso Directory For 1905, John F. Worley & Co. Jan 1904

John F. Worley & Co's El Paso Directory For 1905, John F. Worley & Co.

El Paso City Directories

Containing a General Directory of the Citizens and Business Firms Alphabetically Arranged, a Classified Business Directory, a Complete Street Guide and Miscellaneous Information of Value to Citizens and Strangers.


John F. Worley & Co.'S El Paso Directory For 1904, John F. Worley & Co. Jan 1904

John F. Worley & Co.'S El Paso Directory For 1904, John F. Worley & Co.

El Paso City Directories

Containing a General Directory of the Citizens and Business Firms Alphabetically Arranged, a Classified Business Directory, a Complete Street Guide and Miscellaneous Information of Value to Citizens and Strangers.


John F. Worley & Co.'S El Paso Directory For 1903, John F. Worley & Co. Jan 1903

John F. Worley & Co.'S El Paso Directory For 1903, John F. Worley & Co.

El Paso City Directories

Containing a General Directory of the Citizens and Business Firms Alphabetically Arranged, a Classified Business Directory, a Complete Street Guide and Miscellaneous Information of Value to Citizens and Strangers.


Buck's Directory Of El Paso, Tex. For 1902, El Paso Directory Co. Jan 1902

Buck's Directory Of El Paso, Tex. For 1902, El Paso Directory Co.

El Paso City Directories

Including a Review of the City's Development and the Opportunities Offered for Investment. Together with a Business Directory of Las Cruces, Juárez and Chihuahua.


Worley's Directory Of The City Of El Paso, Texas 1901, John F. Worley & Co. Jan 1901

Worley's Directory Of The City Of El Paso, Texas 1901, John F. Worley & Co.

El Paso City Directories

No abstract provided.


Worley's Directory Of The City Of El Paso, Tex. 1900, John F. Worley & Co. Jan 1899

Worley's Directory Of The City Of El Paso, Tex. 1900, John F. Worley & Co.

El Paso City Directories

No abstract provided.


Worley's Directory Of City Of El Paso, Tex. 1898-1899, John F. Worley & Co. Jan 1898

Worley's Directory Of City Of El Paso, Tex. 1898-1899, John F. Worley & Co.

El Paso City Directories

No abstract provided.


Evans & Worley's Directory Of The City Of El Paso, Texas, 1896-'97, Evans & Worley Jan 1896

Evans & Worley's Directory Of The City Of El Paso, Texas, 1896-'97, Evans & Worley

El Paso City Directories

No abstract provided.


El Paso City Directory For The Years 1895-1896, Frank J. Mcdevitt & Company Jan 1895

El Paso City Directory For The Years 1895-1896, Frank J. Mcdevitt & Company

El Paso City Directories

No abstract provided.


Classified Business Directory, Of The Cities Of El Paso, Texas And Ciudad Juárez, Mex. For The Years 1892 And 1893, El Paso And Juarez Directory Co. Jan 1893

Classified Business Directory, Of The Cities Of El Paso, Texas And Ciudad Juárez, Mex. For The Years 1892 And 1893, El Paso And Juarez Directory Co.

El Paso City Directories

Containing under separate heads information pertaining to these cities -- consisting of a Street Guide, Census of Names, Classified Business, Church, Society, and official Directory and other valuable information.


El Paso Directory Co's Directory Of The City Of El Paso 1889, El Paso Directory Company Jan 1889

El Paso Directory Co's Directory Of The City Of El Paso 1889, El Paso Directory Company

El Paso City Directories

Embracing the official census of the city, a street guide, United States, State, County and City officials, schools, secret and benevolent societies, the names, occupation, and residence of all adult persons, together with a classified business directory.


El Paso Directory Co's Directory Of The City Of El Paso 1888, El Paso Directory Company Jan 1888

El Paso Directory Co's Directory Of The City Of El Paso 1888, El Paso Directory Company

El Paso City Directories

Embracing a street guide, United States, State, County and City officials, churches, schools, secret, benevolent and social organizations, the name, occupation and residence of adult population, and a classified business directory.


C. A. Gould & Co's General Directory Of The City Of El Paso For 1886-87, C. A. Gould & Co. Jan 1886

C. A. Gould & Co's General Directory Of The City Of El Paso For 1886-87, C. A. Gould & Co.

El Paso City Directories

Containing the present state, county and city governments; list of post offices in Texas; also an index of all societies, associations, churches, educational institutions, the full names and address of all residents, their occupation and a complete classified business directory, street directory, historical and statistical information of El Paso County and City.


El Paso, Texas And Paso Del Norte, Mexico, Business Directory For 1885, Rackliff & Wainey Jan 1885

El Paso, Texas And Paso Del Norte, Mexico, Business Directory For 1885, Rackliff & Wainey

El Paso City Directories

No abstract provided.