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Recent Submissions
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Thornton, Matthew; 0000-0003-4983-0411 (2022-12-12)
What is a city? It’s more than a location where many people live and work. It is a conglomeration of shared experience over generations. One generation informs the next, which informs how each subsequent generation adds ...
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Surio, Jodwin; 0000-0003-3712-5061 (2022-08-15)
Our country’s largest cities have become more racially and ethnically diverse than they were in 2010 (US News, 2020). Differences are present and yet, our cemeteries, originally catering to a predominantly Caucasian market ...
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Wardwell, Lauren; 0000-0003-3582-175X (2022-05-17)
Ambient outdoor air pollution kills roughly 4.2 million people every year worldwide and is linked as a contributing factor to diseases such as asthma, cancer, infertility, and neurological disorders. In the United States, ...
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Spittle, Paul D; 0000-0002-3528-3384 (2022-05-09)
Heralding a new wave against “business-as-usual” planning, design and development practice that had in part brought about the Global Crash of 2008 (Marcinkoski, 2016), the rise in rapid and temporary design typologies, ...
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Easley, Anjelyque; 0000-0002-3557-128X (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 ...
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Margarida-De Guzman, Angeles Marina (2021-10-15)
Homelessness is a critical social crisis impacting the United States in the 21st century. According to The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, in 2019 there were eight states that displayed a significant ...
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Dzogolo, Moise; 0000-0001-7419-4205 (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 ...
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Simonini, Nicole Palmer; 0000-0001-5767-2324 (2021-05-07)
Many rural Texas towns are being enveloped by urban sprawl. Former small, rural towns with tightly-knit communities and storied historic places are being replaced by mass residential and retail developments. These enveloped ...
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Shuey, Michael (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. ...
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Rojo, Luis; 0000-0002-0232-9307 (2021-03-11)
According to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), an estimated 11.3 million undocumented immigrants reside in United States (U.S.) of which 53 percent are Mexican (Gelatt & Zong, 2018). Many of these immigrants have not ...
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Nipu, Nusrat Jahan; 0000-0001-5569-9822 (2021-05-05)
"Flea markets are significant in North America because of their cultural, socio-economic, functional values, and the opportunities they provide for social interaction and public gathering" (Riveira, A.N., 2013). They can ...
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Naccari, Elena E. (2021-05-07)
The state of Texas produced more than 36 million tons of waste in 2019. Currently, there are 198 active landfills of varying size and capacity in the entire state. Overall landfill capacity within the state is decreasing ...
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Lemuz, Melissa Rubi; 0000-0003-3300-2187 (2021-05-07)
Hydraulic fracturing poses challenges to the environmental stability of the areas surrounding a hydraulic fracturing site due to exposure to the byproducts of the hydraulic fracturing process. (Rahm, 2011; Perry, Sutton, ...
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Blocker, Bonnie (2021-05-07)
The Texas cattle ranch is a vernacular landscape of historic significance, threatened by population-driven land use change and unsustainable exurban development (Kjelland, 2007). A vast majority of Texas cattle ranches ...
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Reeves, Steven Matthew; 0000-0002-0228-0478 (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 ...
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Webb, Michael A; 0000-0003-1196-7068 (2020-06-05)
City nodes are designed and used to help improve a city’s wayfinding, imageability, and sense of place. If these nodes lack evidence-based image creation and navigation facilitation design parameters, the result is often ...
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Webb, Annabeth; 0000-0002-3954-2304 (2020-06-04)
This research explores the civic governance and political structure of the city council election systems in Dallas, Texas after the Voting Rights Act in order to discover the change in minority representation and its impact ...
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McMahen, Monty; 0000-0003-0675-3305 (2020-05-14)
This design thesis explores the development of a public art master plan as a tool for small towns to address issues and opportunities in their communities. This exploration was undertaken through the study and design of ...
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Freeman, Codie; 0000-0002-1917-7186 (2020-05-15)
Food barriers have become a growing problem for many communities due to lower
access to healthy foods. Not having access to healthy foods has been linked to health
problems rising in communities. There are several food ...
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Dasa Gangadhar, Niveditha (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, ...
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