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Recent Submissions
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Lattimore Norris, Kathryn May; 0000-0002-0079-4168 (2022-12-12)
The body of research investigating collaboration has grown exponentially in recent years with the realization of its potential in generating innovative solutions to complex problems. Even though an abundance of literature ...
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Vasquez, Arthur Gregory; 0000-0003-3803-2019 (2022-08-15)
This dissertation is composed of three papers that will examine three topics related to the main research project of examining whether or not CPTED strategies have an effect on the decision to participate in appointment ...
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Chapman, Brian Lee; 0000-0003-2607-2427 (2022-08-05)
Individuals have been organizing for millennia. The purpose of this study was to investigate what it means for individuals and organizations to each experience how an exposure to the instrumentalized philosophies of one ...
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Kim, Kukhyoung (2020-09-08)
Previous studies of immigrants’ travel behavior have been conducted mostly in California and the United States as a whole. Even though immigrant population and the share of immigrants have rapidly increased in Texas, only ...
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Isokpan, Gwendolyn; 0000-0001-9847-7365 (2020-09-02)
Since the housing bust and Great Recession, in the United States, the homeownership gap between black and white households has widened to its largest levels in 50 years (Choi, McCargo, Neal, Goodman & Young, 2019). With ...
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Jahan, Jinat (2020-08-24)
Asthma is an important public health concern as it is one of the major chronic diseases and is influenced by both environmental and genetic factors. The asthma situation is deteriorating in the North Central Texas. In such ...
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Granpayehvaghei, Tahereh; 0000-0002-2796-2707 (2020-05-29)
The burgeoning research on creative clusters and an increased rate of municipal investment in creative policymaking are becoming dominant global trends. Yet, the factors that help foster creative-friendly communities and ...
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Esfandyari, Sahar (2020-06-01)
Factors influencing public transit ridership have been widely explored in recent decades. While planners believe that density and mixed land use around transit stations will increase public transit ridership, criminology ...
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Bagheri, Farokh (2020-06-05)
In recent decades, the development of diverse types of transportation systems to meet the needs of people in all parts of a country is a trend in urban development that is in line with interest in the sustainable development ...
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Kosut, Katherine M.; 0000-0003-1210-1776 (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) ...
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He, Qian (2022-05-06)
This dissertation examines the relationship between neighborhood characteristics, crime, and mental health, with an emphasis on the role of social disadvantage. Using 5-year panel data from Dallas- Fort Worth metroplex, ...
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Keshavarzihaghighi, Golnaz; 0000-0002-3753-7886 (2019-12-06)
This dissertation seeks to investigate the association between smart city initiatives and neighborhoods’ walkability. The preference for living in walkable neighborhoods has grown remarkably since 2017, in comparison to ...
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Yildirim, Yalcin (2019-12-04)
Over the last decades, Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs) have stimulated heated debates. Researchers have fully explored the TODs' quality-of-life characteristics; however, sound/noise impacts are under-explored in the ...
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Powers, John C. (2021-11-29)
People with disabilities face daily physical challenges posed by inaccessible buildings and unsafe sidewalks or public parks. These barriers prevent millions of people from enjoying resources provided by municipalities ...
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Philips, Jack Brandon; 0000-0002-4923-7303 (2020-12-09)
The nonprofit sector is an essential and valuable resource in the United States for aiding marginalized populations. This study focuses on how nonprofit health organizations provide and innovate HIV services, and how they ...
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Varela, Eric; 0000-0002-7960-9964 (2020-09-08)
This dissertation is about subsidized housing and its provision in the contemporary metropolis, with particular focus on suburbs. Subsidized housing has typically been conceived as fundamentally an urban issue given its ...
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Lee, Lori Dynette (2020-09-04)
Exiting research supports dog parks as a third place based on the ability of dog-supportive public space to bring people together informally outside home and work (Graham and Glover, 2014), yet offers little clarity in ...
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Chetuya, Emma (2020-09-03)
Like most states in Nigeria, the Enugu state government is unable to meet the high demand of land for housing development in Enugu and as a result, the vast majority of land available for purchase is through customary ...
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Heath, William Casey; 0000-0001-6212-9617 (2021-08-10)
The current investigation seeks to understand if similarities or differences in police funding exist between metropolitan and micropolitan cities in Texas. Little is known about the micropolitan cities and police funding ...
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Johnson, Kapreta J; 0000-0002-1586-3250 (2021-08-10)
Volunteering is an invaluable resource and practice that connects people to much-needed services. Current research is limited on the practices and perspectives of African American volunteers in the United States. Through ...
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