Impacts Of Transit Oriented Developments (Tod) And Mixed Use Centers (Muc) In Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex On Housing Values And Demographic Composition,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
Impacts Of Transit Oriented Developments (Tod) And Mixed Use Centers (Muc) In Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex On Housing Values And Demographic Composition, Narasimha Pratap Mandapaka
Planning Dissertations - Archive
Suburban sprawl was attributed to be the cause of number of problems such as traffic congestion, depletion of natural resources, and decreasing air quality. Over the past two decades, policy makers and smart growth proponents encouraged Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) and Mixed Use Centers (MUC) to increase transit ridership and development density; revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; improve environmental quality and livability; and to counteract suburban sprawl and real estate market forces in various communities in the U.S. Though many policy makers, urban planners, environmentalists see significant opportunities in sustainable development, there have been concerns related to affordability of housing combined with transportation, …
Housing, Capitalism And Underdevelopment In Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis Of Sierra Leone's Housing Market And Its Developmental Challenges,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
Housing, Capitalism And Underdevelopment In Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis Of Sierra Leone's Housing Market And Its Developmental Challenges, Steven Nabieu Rogers
Planning Dissertations - Archive
The issue of available and affordable housing in Sub-Saharan Africa poses an overwhelming problem, and yet receives weak policy responses. Since independence, housing policies have shifted from ambitious schemes of state intervention to increasing emphasis on the private market. This shift coincided with the global economic trend that advocated for escalating privatization. The 1993 World Bank's housing "Enablement" policy became the blueprint for planning in developing countries. Despite decades of policy shift, housing outcomes foreshadow derelict housing structures, poorly structured mortgages and increased unaffordability for the urban poor. Critics have highlighted that the approach is biased towards the market, exclusionary …
Identifying The Barriers To Collaboration Between Transportation Planning And Public Health Using The Network Model,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
Identifying The Barriers To Collaboration Between Transportation Planning And Public Health Using The Network Model, Lou Kelley Brewer
Planning Dissertations - Archive
Transportation Planning and Public Health worked closely together a century ago but drifted apart over the decades. Today, both groups face enormous challenges. Transportation planning needs to replace aging infrastructures while preparing for population growth and the demands that come with it. Resources are already taxed and new ways of doing business are needed. Public Health successfully addressed communicable diseases during the last century only to be confronted with the high cost of treating chronic diseases including obesity in this century. Prevention in the form of increased physical activity as a key strategy led Public Health to the built environment …
The Issue Of Governance In Neighborhood Planning Programs,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
The Issue Of Governance In Neighborhood Planning Programs, Brian Price
Planning Theses - Archive
Neighborhood planning programs are a kind of initiative cities all across the country utilize to engage communities in planning processes affecting their own neighborhoods and to target resources and city initiatives within these spaces more effectively. These programs also represent a governance process, where publically relevant affairs are regulated at the interface of public, private, and civic sectors. Because these programs are highly variable between cities and are structured based off of local needs, trends, and agendas exploring governance contexts and relations at the urban and neighborhood level is helpful for explaining these differences in program goals and outcomes. At …
Creating A Cohesive Triple Bottom Line: Helping The Urban Planner As A Liaison To The Citizen,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
Creating A Cohesive Triple Bottom Line: Helping The Urban Planner As A Liaison To The Citizen, Jeffery Earl Bell
Planning Theses - Archive
This thesis is an attempt to create a viable liaison tool for the urban planner to create a cohesive idea of the Triple Bottom Line of sustainability between the citizen and the government of the city. By using consistent policy standards and adequate focus upon the new ideas of a sustainable lifestyle, the city should be able to create a viable structure for the future. In order to create a viable Triple Bottom Line, the citizen and the government will need to combine long term planning with current policy and standards of use and compliance in order to dedicate a …
Developers' Perceptions Of Opportunities & Obstacles To Building New Urbanist Communities In Dfw,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
Developers' Perceptions Of Opportunities & Obstacles To Building New Urbanist Communities In Dfw, Luke Jackson
Planning Theses - Archive
The recent housing crash has done great damage to the American economy and has affected millions of households. Pre-crash, New Urbanist Communities became more popular to build, yet sprawl development remains the norm. I seek to find out why New Urbanist Communities are being built at their current rates in Dallas-Fort Worth, so to discover whether or not a market failure has occurred regarding this real estate product. This study analyzes supply-side factors affecting the development New Urbanist Communities (i.e. the factors affecting the developers in the Metroplex) through interviews with individuals representing each residential development company. The factors affecting …
Cars (College Awareness Of Road Safety) Project: The Redesign Of A Dublin City Centre Junction With Respect To Non-Vehicular Traffic Between The Ages Of 17-24.,
2012
Technological University Dublin
Cars (College Awareness Of Road Safety) Project: The Redesign Of A Dublin City Centre Junction With Respect To Non-Vehicular Traffic Between The Ages Of 17-24., Alex Browne, Carlo Selman, Mark Kennedy, Niall Dolan
Students Learning with Communities
No abstract provided.
Cfmd Research Journal 2011-2012 Volume 1,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
Cfmd Research Journal 2011-2012 Volume 1, Center For Metropolitan Density, Michael P. Buckley, Taner R. Ozdil
Center for Metropolitan Density Publications - Archive
The Center's mission is to demonstrate that greater density, including suburban scale density, will produce the most economically productive, operationally effective, fiscally efficient, environmentally responsible, and culturally supportive environments. CfMD will fulfill its mission by conducting sponsored research, convening symposia, and consulting with industry partners.
Annetta South Comprehensive Land Use Plan,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
Annetta South Comprehensive Land Use Plan, Institute Of Urban Studies
Institute of Urban Studies Publications - Archive
No abstract provided.
Sprawl In The Western United States: Do State Growth Management Programs Reduce Sprawl?,
2012
Boise State University
Sprawl In The Western United States: Do State Growth Management Programs Reduce Sprawl?, Jenna Nash
McNair Scholars Research Journal
Sprawl is faulted for contributing to excessive commuting and transportation costs, raising the cost of providing infrastructure and other public services (Carruthers, 2002). With the advent of the environmental movement in the 1960s, concern for the impact urban growth was having on the environment caused a surge of growth management legislation that eventually led to several states implementing state growth management programs (SGMPs). While there have been several studies done on the effectiveness of SGMPs in containing sprawl, there have been no studies of state-growth management that focus solely on the Western States, states that have many characteristics in common …
Creation Of A Gis Based Model For Determining The Suitability Of Implementing Green Infrastructure: In The Town Of Berlin Maryland,
2012
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Creation Of A Gis Based Model For Determining The Suitability Of Implementing Green Infrastructure: In The Town Of Berlin Maryland, Ronald A. W. Marney
Community and Regional Planning Program: Theses
This project is entitled “Incorporation of Green Infrastructure Into Comprehensive Storm Water Management and the Effective Utilization of LiDAR: In the Town of Berlin ”. The goal of this research was the creation of a Geographic Information System (GIS) based model for determining the suitability / feasibility of green infrastructure implementation, as defined by this study, within the study area. This model was only applicable for the identified elements or tools under green infrastructure as defined by this study. This enabled clear and concise definitions and more readily identified the criteria and their parameters. The scope of the model’s applicability …
Greyfield Site Redevelopment Analysis,
2012
University of Texas at Arlington
Greyfield Site Redevelopment Analysis, Christopher J. Shacklett, Andrew Whittemore
Planning Masters Professional Reports - Archive
This report provides a framework for the research and analysis that will assist in understanding the issues leading to the decline of once successful shopping centers into greyfields. Inner-ring suburbs in the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex deal with this issue which is caused by aging centers and infrastructure coupled with increased competition from newer, faster growing suburbs offering increased financial incentives and newer shopping centers. Through an analysis of varying definitions of greyfields, a definition that represents the most typical greyfield sites affecting inner-ring suburbs will be chosen. Based on the chosen definition, this report focuses on two sites …
The Continuing Exodus: The Synagogue And Jewish Urban Migration,
2012
Syracuse University
The Continuing Exodus: The Synagogue And Jewish Urban Migration, Samuel D. Gruber
Religion - All Scholarship
Catalog essay in Silent Witnesses: Migration Stories Through Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt or Abandoned (Farmington Hills, MI, 2012) that deals with Jewish settlement and migration in American cities (especially New York, Boston and Cleveland) and the religious and community buildings erected and left behind in the process.
Advancing The Human Right To Housing In Post-Katrina New Orleans: Discursive Opportunity Structures In Housing And Community Development,
2012
CUNY Graduate Center
Advancing The Human Right To Housing In Post-Katrina New Orleans: Discursive Opportunity Structures In Housing And Community Development, Leigh Graham
Publications and Research
In post-Katrina New Orleans, housing and community development (HCD) advocates clashed over the future of public housing. This case study examines the evolution of and limits to a human right to housing frame introduced by one nongovernmental organization (NGO). Ferree’s concept of the discursive opportunity structure and Bourdieu’s social field ground this NGO’s failure to advance a radical economic human rights frame, given its choice of a political inside strategy that opened up for HCD NGOs after Hurricane Katrina. Strategic and ideological differences within the field limited the efficacy of this rights-based frame, which was seen as politically radical and …
Walking In The Land Of Cars: Automobile-Pedestrian Accidents In Hillsborough County, Florida,
2012
University of South Florida
Walking In The Land Of Cars: Automobile-Pedestrian Accidents In Hillsborough County, Florida, Marc Aaron Poling
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Analyses of traffic accidents are often focused on the characteristics of the accident event and hence do not take into account the broader neighborhood contexts in which accidents are located. This thesis seeks to extend empirical analyses of accidents by understanding the link between accidents and their surroundings. The case study for this thesis is Hillsborough County, Florida, within which the city of Tampa is located. The Tampa Bay region ranks very high in terms of accident rates within U.S. metropolitan areas and is also characterized by transport policies which favor private automobiles over mass transit options, making it an …
Transport Manager Responsibilities And Risk Based Insurance Analysis,
2012
University of Texas at El Paso
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.
Neighborhood Crime And Travel Behavior: An Investigation Of The Influence Of Neighborhood Crime Rates On Mode Choice – Phase Ii,
2012
San Jose State University
Neighborhood Crime And Travel Behavior: An Investigation Of The Influence Of Neighborhood Crime Rates On Mode Choice – Phase Ii, Christopher Ferrell, Shishir Mathur
Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning
No abstract provided.
From The Personal To The Communal - Support For An Evolutionary Urban System,
2012
Technological University Dublin
From The Personal To The Communal - Support For An Evolutionary Urban System, Noel Brady
Conference papers
A short discussion towards a model for the future of urban and interurban development. From the personal tot he communal argues for a futurist city that is an organic physiological time filled environment.
Working With The Territory: Strategies For The New Territorialities / Travailler Avec Le Territoire : Stratégies Pour Les Nouvelles Territorialités,
2012
Washington University in St. Louis
Working With The Territory: Strategies For The New Territorialities / Travailler Avec Le Territoire : Stratégies Pour Les Nouvelles Territorialités, Carles Llop Torné, Stéphane Bosc
Books and Monographs
Metropolisation and urban sprawl are recurrences of recent developments in European territories, and particularly the Mediterranean. However, these phenomena often oppose the idea of environmental conservation and respect for natural and economic equilibriums. CREPUD-MED has allowed a group of European experts, local elected officials, academics, architects, planners, geographers, sociologists… to combine their skills and to question the notion of territorial development understood as a “project-process.” Four case-studies of four European regions are presented within: Val de Durance (Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Funo (Provincia di Bologna), Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and Eleonas (Athens); in the form of an atlas, as a knowledge …
Avoiding The Mistakes Of The Past,
2012
Technological University Dublin
Avoiding The Mistakes Of The Past, Tom Dunne
Articles
Tom Dunne explores the long term drivers of dysfunction in Ireland's housing markets and what a more sustainable housing system would look like.
