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GAMBIAN TRANSNATIONALISM AND URBAN SPATIAL EXPANSION: AN ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF US-BASED GAMBIAN EMIGRANTS’ REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS IN THE GREATER BANJUL AREA
(2022-08-12)This study was the first comprehensive study of the transnational housing investments of Gambian emigrants in the Gambia and contributes to the literature on immigrant populations in host countries by illuminating the ... -
Growth/decline Of Employment Subcenter In Polycentric Regions: The Case Of The Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2008-04-22)This research is concerned with explaining the variation in growth rates among employment subcenters. The purpose of the study is to find answers to the question: What factors/variables contribute to the growth or decline ... -
Housing, Capitalism And Underdevelopment In Sub-saharan Africa: An Analysis Of Sierra Leone's Housing Market And Its Developmental Challenges
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2012-07-25)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 ... -
Identifying The Barriers To Collaboration Between Transportation Planning And Public Health Using The Network Model
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)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 ... -
Impact Of Urban Planning Policies On Carbon-dioxide Emissions: An Indian Perspective
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-09-17)Climate change is a multidimensional observable fact and is regarded as one of the greatest challenge human society is facing in the 21st century. Debates on climate change advocate that, urban areas not only contribute ... -
Impacts Of Transit Oriented Developments (TOD) And Mixed Use Centers (MUC) In Dallas-fort Worth Metroplex On Housing Values And Demographic Composition
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2012-07-25)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 ... -
Landscapes of Environmental Justice: A Post-Structural Analysis of Ecological Structures and Environmental Discourses
(2016-08-22)Although application of ecological concepts and looking at the city as an “ecological space” or ecosystem is not new in planning (e.g. Chicago school), in the context of environmental justice research there is a need for ... -
Law And Politics In Public-private Partnerships: Transparency, Conflict Of Interest, And Renegotiation In Concession Arrangements
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2011-07-14)Many states and local governments have begun to use the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) vehicle as a policy tool in the area of highway transportation infrastructure development. A particular type of PPP, sometimes ... -
Mitigating Climate Change At The Municipal Scale: American Urban Planning At A Crossroads
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2011-10-11)The failure of international negotiations toward a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol to limit global greenhouse gas emissions has highlighted not only the problematic associated with a global agreement on such a ... -
Monetary Policy In The Organization Of Eastern Caribbean States: How Important Is The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank In Crafting Policy
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2012-07-25)The research examines the effectiveness of monetary policy in improving standards of living at the local level in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. The study postulates that monetary policy should not be ... -
NEOLIBERAL PARK GOVERNANCE REGIMES AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL INCLUSION IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS SIGNATURE PARKS
(2021-08-03)Privatization has been frequently criticized for diminishing the inclusiveness of public space. This dissertation examines whether private signature parks are more exclusive than their public counterparts utilizing Lefebvre’s ... -
Planning For Growth In Cities And Metropolitan Regions: An Empirical Study Of Impact Fees And Choice
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2008-04-22)This research examines what city factors relate to the likelihood of adopting impact fees by local governments within metropolitan regions using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. More and more cities are adopting different ... -
POLICY MOBILITIES AND WEST DALLAS DREAM: CONSIDERING TRANSACTIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE POLICY IDEAS TESTED IN VANCOUVER AND ASSEMBLED IN DALLAS
This dissertation considers contemporary urban development and urban change as framed by emerging forces of neoliberalism and globalization and applies critical theory lenses to discuss how policy approaches developed in ... -
Property Tax Appraisal For Green Buildings: ENERGY STAR Certification In Texas
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-07-14)This study investigates whether tax appraised values of commercial office buildings in major Texas cities are influenced by ENERGY STAR (ES) rating. Per square foot (PSF) tax appraised value of property improvements and ... -
Representative Bureaucracy And The Indirect Effects Of Substantive Co-worker Representation
The theory of representative bureaucracy has been suggested as an equity oriented tool that could work to alter the negative aspects of majority rule. Ongoing debates over the best way to ensure and enhance equity for ... -
Shared Land Use Impacts Between Military Installations And Contiguous Communities (post-BRAC): Fact And Opinion Differences In Planning And Public Policy
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2008-08-08)How a policy or planning tool (e.g. BRAC) contributes to real and perceived conclusions from policy implementation is the main focus of this research. This research examines differences between real and perceived encroachment ... -
Spatial Decision Support Systems Use in Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Analysis: Spatial Analysis for U.S. Army Civil Affairs Civil Information Management
(2019-03-21)Becoming a core U.S. military mission in 2005, Stability Operations deals with the political, economic, social and structural resiliency of a county or region. It is conducted to support and develop a host nation’s government, ... -
Spatial Patterns And Determinants Of Industrial Regional Growth In Mexico, 1993-2003: Implications For Regional Planning And Public Policy
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2007-08-23)This research investigates industrial regional growth and its determinants in Mexico from 1993 to 2003. Strategies of local economic development, usually based on industrial promotion, require knowing main determinants of ... -
Sustainability In The Private And Public Sectors: A Comparison Of Motivators, Actions, Barriers And Reporting Of Results
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)The concept of sustainability has developed over the past 40 years and continues to advance as organizations implement sustainable practices, quantify sustainability results, and communicate their accomplishments to key ... -
THE CULTURAL ADVANTAGE OF CITIES: EXPLORING THE CULTURAL INDUSTRY AGGLOMERATIONS AS A SOURCE FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
(2017-05-09)Interest in the cultural industries as a source for economic growth has risen to prominence in recent decades. The purpose of this research is to explore the role and contribution of the cultural industries for economic ...