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The Impact Of Green Walls And Roofs To Urban Microclimate In Downtown Dallas, Texas: Learning From Simulated Environments
(Landscape Architecture, 2014-03-12)Microclimate refers to a localized zone where the climate is different than the surrounding area. In dense urban areas, climate is affected by "urban thermo-physical and geometrical characteristics, anthropogenic activities ... -
The Impact Of Institutional Support Networks: A Case Study Of A Small Texas Public School District
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-07-22)This thesis project focuses on a small independent school district in Texas that serves a high-poverty population yet excels at graduating economically disadvantaged students. Using the concepts of cultural and social ... -
IMPACT OF INTERACTIVE DIGITAL KIOSKS UPON SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN URBAN PUBLIC SPACES
(2019-05-06)The objective of this thesis is to study the impact of Interactive Digital Kiosks upon human social behavior in urban public spaces. William H. Whyte; an author of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, highlights several ... -
Impact Of The Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Program On Closing The Academic Achievement Gap
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2010-07-19)There is disparity in the quality of school experiences encountered by students of different races, languages, social classes, and communities. There are also systemic issues that affect the quality of education received ... -
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 ... -
Impacts Of Urbanization On Environmental Resources: A Land Use Planning Perspective
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2011-03-03)The main purpose of this thesis is to (1) study the impacts of urbanization on environmental resources, and (2) propose land use planning strategies to avoid or at least minimize the impacts from future land use planning ... -
Implementing Oral English Language Acquisition Policy In Career And Technical Education Classes: Changing To A Social Pedagogy Paradigm
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2010-11-01)Implementing Oral English Language Acquisition Policy in Career and Technical Classes: Changing to a Social Pedagogy Paradigm Kelley E. Crockett, PhD The University of Texas at Arlington, 2010Supervising Professor: Dr. ... -
Improving public transit services: Does collaborative transit services among public transit providers make them more efficient?
(2017-04-28)The network effect is the postulation that the utility of a product to a consumer increases as its consumption increases (Clement, 2004). If a parallel is drawn in transit service usage, the utility for transit services ... -
Increasing Food Accessibility Among Urban Poor: Providing An Alternative Solution Through A City-wide Community Garden Plan
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-12)Community Gardens have been entitled as an emerging solution to food security and injustice issues especially among socially disempowered communities. US Department of Agriculture has designated more than half of the census ... -
Individual Motivational Factors Impacting United States Air Force Reserve Recruiting
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-12)This research seeks to discern the latent motivational factors that prompt individuals to join the Air Force Reserve. It is hypothesized that the decision to affiliate has a large non-economic component; this study also ... -
The Influence Of A Marketing Plan On The Professional Practice Of Small Landscape Architecture Firms
(Landscape Architecture, 2013-03-20)This thesis examines the marketing practices of small landscape architecture firms to determine whether a marketing plan enables small firms to focus their practice and thereby gain business opportunities in North Texas. ... -
Information Technology Sophistication And Outcomes Of Acute Care Hospitals In Texas
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2007-08-23)This exploratory study tested relationships between information technology sophistication and clinical and financial outcomes of acute care hospitals. The hospital sample was Texas hospitals (N =175) with available data ... -
Information Technology's Impact On The Space And Automobile Relationship: A Study Of The Link Between Internet Tech, Automobiles, And Residential Preferences
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-07-22)Many city planners, developers, real estate agents, and planning academics have been strong proponents of compact, mixed-use, New Urbanist developments. They point to the research that shows that younger generations will ... -
Innovative storm water best management practices : their influence on landscape architecture in North Texas
(Landscape Architecture, 2009-09-16)The land development process is essentially a three step progression consisting of input from developers who envision and fund a project, designers who translate the developer's vision into a buildable project, and the ... -
INSERTION OF ‘GREEN WEBS’ – A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO URBAN TREE PLANTING IN DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS
(2020-05-20)The urban space poses many challenges for the growth and survival of trees. The urban fabric is often knitted with concrete, stone, copper, and iron, in the form of sidewalks, parking lots, buildings, wires, and pipes, ... -
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL TURBULENCES IMPACT ON TRAVEL AND TOURISM
(2018-09-10)Tourism is a major economic development force, but it appears that international political turbulence has an impact on tourism. Whether the impact of political instability on tourism is a negative or a positive one is the ... -
"Invasion" Of The Poor: Beliefs And Attitudes Of The Receiving Community
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2007-08-23)Housing policy as one of the tools for eradicating poverty remains a critical arena for debate, especially in light of the dire situation of impoverished inner cities and growing inequalities between communities in the ... -
The Irony Of Proving Discrimination
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2008-09-17)Currently America courts require plaintiffs alleging discrimination to not only prove the existence of present day discrimination but to also prove the "discriminatory intent." This dissertation contains two applications ... -
The Issue Of Governance In Neighborhood Planning Programs
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)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 ...