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Assessing The Economic Value Of Linear Landscapes: Learning From The Katy And Santa Fe Trails In Dallas, Texas
(Landscape Architecture, 2014-07-14)This research is an economic value study for linear landscapes. Additionally, the research builds upon relevant landscape architecture literature in concern to the economic value of landscape. Specifically, the focus occurs ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Road Capacity Improvements on Project Communities: A Case Study of the National Highway 1 (N1-Highway) Accra, Ghana
(2019-09-06)The evaluation of road transportation projects has always been undertaken based on engineering and economic criteria. Road transportation projects are selected based on their significant impacts on key performance measures ... -
Assessing the relationship between acute and chronic health conditions and transportation disadvantage and quality of life among older adults in Tarrant County, Texas
(2018-08-08)By the year 2035, for the first time in US history, there will be more older adults in the US than individuals under the age of 18 (Vespa, 2018), and Tarrant County, Texas is the fastest growing community in the country ... -
Assessing The Value Of Multiple Design Degrees For Landscape Architects: Learning From Professionals In North Texas
(Landscape Architecture, 2014-07-14)Many of the early professionals in the landscape architecture profession had other previous design education (Tishler, 1989). For example, Hideo Sasaki and Lawrence Halprin had exposure to other academic fields, like ... -
ASSESSMENT OF EXPANDING LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEMS VERSUS HIGHWAY SYSTEMS: INFLUENCE ON LAND USE CHANGE AND HABITAT FRAGMENTATION
(2018-07-12)The purpose of this research is to assess and investigate the impact of expanding the Light Rail Transit (LRT) systems versus conventional highway systems for land use change, land formation, and habitat fragmentation in ... -
ASSESSMENT OF MASS TRANSIT IN MEDELLIN COLOMBIA - A CASE STUDY
(2020-08-19)In Latin America, the rapid growth of large cities due to a rise of population along with increased urbanization has posed serious challenges in developing adequate infrastructure for mass transit. In these cities the ... -
ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIAL OF SELF-INCORPORATION AS A SOLUTION TO ROADWAY MAINTENANCE IN TEXAS COLONIAS
(2021-08-10)Colonias are communities that lack basic infrastructures such as water, sewer, and paved roads and that are located within 100 miles of the US-Mexico border. They are generally found in unincorporated areas, and the ... -
At the Nexus of Dallas' Neighborhood Arts Districts and Tax Incremental Financing Zones: the Question of Affordable Housing in a Socially Just Economy
(2019-12-06)This dissertation examines the effects of urban economic development policies on affordable housing and the resident working-class populations within neighborhood arts district (NAD) and the Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) ... -
Awareness Of Psychological Based Strategies And Modes Of Perception By Landscape Architects In North Texas
This research presents a study of the diffusion of innovation (Figure 2.8) as it relates to the manipulation of psychological responses through landscape architecture that enhance the user’s experience and achieves the ... -
The Booster Network: A Framework For Analyzing State Policy Formation In An Era Of Resurgent Private Power
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2007-08-23)The continuing shift toward privatization has created new opportunities for private participation in transportation policy formation, infrastructure development, and service provision. The resulting high stakes have drawn ... -
BUDGETING IN TIMES OF FISCAL STRESS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE BUDGET PROCESS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS IN A LARGE URBAN COUNTY FROM 2006-2017
(2019-12-09)Grusky, et al. (2011) refer to the Great Recession as a transformative event that spiraled into as systemic crisis affecting both the public and private sector. Although the origin of the Great Recession was in the ... -
BUILDING ON SPATIAL MISMATCH: A NEW REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND AN EXAMPLE CASE STUDY
(2020-12-10)Barriers to employment exist at different levels for minority groups, especially those that are residentially segregated. Many studies have examined these barriers, including a physical separation between the residential ... -
Career Influences For Women In Landscape Architecture
(Landscape Architecture, 2007-08-23)This research explores the insights of successful women who are pioneering the practice of landscape architecture in today's practice. Their perspectives regarding the impediments and advantages of women in current practice ... -
The Career Of Gary Robinette In The Contemporary History Of Landscape Architecture
(Landscape Architecture, 2012-07-25)Gary Robinette has practiced landscape architecture since 1963. During that time he has overseen policy and research that affects landscape architects in the United States and those in countries who model their regulatory ... -
CEMETERIES, CONSTRUCTION, AND COMPLICITY TYLER’S UNIVERSE CEMETERY AS A BLACK BURIAL SITE UNDER DISTRESS
(2022-01-03)Black culture has shaped the American landscape in unique but often unrecognized ways. Black burial sites and cemeteries honor ancestors and are a site of reverence (LaRoche & Blakey, 1997). However, they are routinely ... -
Challenges Of Mixed-use Developments : an Analysis Of Current Mixed-use Developments In U.S.A.
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-10-23)There are numerous urban problems that could not be addressed in single use development. Mixed use development as a new theory claims to have the solutions to the urban issues associated with single use development. However, ... -
Challenging Tradition: Parkland Dedication In Subdivision Development
(Landscape Architecture, 2008-04-22)Growth patterns of the last half century have been urbanizing the American landscape (Corrigan, et al, 2004). This new landscape has been created by the horizontal development of single-use, single-family residential housing ... -
The Children Of Mexican Immigrants In U.s.public Schools: Exploring Their Parents' And Teachers' Perception And Knowledge Gaps
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)The influx of Mexican immigrants has posed enormous challenges to the nation's public school systems where migration is rapidly increasing. The high Hispanic dropout rate points to a failure in educating Latinos and has ... -
CLASSIFYING DESIRE PATHS UTILIZING A CAMPUS MASTER PLAN STUDY: A METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING URBAN DESIGN FLAWS
(2021-05-07)Desire paths are the informal pathways created from the erosional effect of repeated foot traffic. These footpaths come in many shapes and sizes and can occur in spaces where there are no formal pathways for pedestrians. ... -
Climate change planning in Dallas-Fort Worth: Discourse and public participation in a politically conservative region
(2016-05-09)Climate change is one of the greatest challenges currently facing our world, and in the field of planning there has been much attention paid to climate action planning by environmental leader cities. However, political ...