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School of City and Regional Planning Theses and Dissertations [283]
Original work in partial fulfillment of a graduate degree in the School of City and Regional Planning.
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Investigating Travel Behavior in Transit-Oriented Development: Toward Sustainable and Multimodal Mobility
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)An extensive literature has shown that transit-oriented development residents (TOD) have lower automobile use and diverse travel modes due to easy access to transit, better walkability, and proximity to various amenities. ... -
Assessing mental wellbeing in urban areas using social media data: understanding when and where urbanites stress and de-stress
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-10)Are Americans more stressed out by living in dense, urbanized areas or less dense, car-oriented areas? To answer this question, can we use people's expressions of stress in different environments to understand what kinds ... -
White Spatial Planning Practices: Deconstructing Narratives around Race, Space, and Privilege
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-10-29)Racial inequality in the United States persists across multiple measures of health, wealth, and education despite changes in laws and policies to end de jure segregation. One reason is the way representations of space ... -
Shared E-scooter Adoption and Mode Substitution Patterns
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-30)This thesis explores the adoption and mode substitution patterns of e-scooters using survey data from four metropolitan areas in the southern United States, obtained from Fall 2019 to Spring 2020. For adoption patterns, ... -
Measuring Street-Level Walkability through Big Image Data and Its Associations with Walking Behavior
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-26)The built environment characteristics associated with walkability range from neighborhood-level urban form factors to street-level urban design factors. However, many existing walkability measures are primarily based on ... -
The Role of Relational Agents in Regional Economic Evolution and Resilience: The Case of Robotics Systems Integrators
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-20)This dissertation addresses the question of how legacy industrial regions—those that have historically relied on manufacturing, resource extraction, or agriculture—can regain or sustain competitiveness in a global, ... -
The Shape of Discourse in Urban Movements through the Lens of Social Media: A case study of the anti-redevelopment movement in South Korea
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-04)This study explored the shape of discourse around the anti-redevelopment movement in Seoul, South Korea, and investigated the effects of social media in the urban movement. The site was an old manufacturing district in ... -
Cluster-based Delineation of Megaregions in the United States: Identifying administrative boundaries that reflect meta-communities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-04)Coordination and collaboration through governance at meta-urban scales have the potential to significantly improve quality of life while reducing the bureaucratic burden on society. Megaregional research and delineation ... -
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed People’s Attitude about Where to Live? Some Preliminary Answers from a Study of the Atlanta Housing Market
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-04)In March 2020, the national lockdowns and social distancing mandates to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the US abruptly disrupted all aspects of urban life, requiring people to conduct daily activities including work, ... -
Tide to Town: Rapid Health Impact Assessment of Savannah’s Tide to Town Urban Trail System
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)The Tide to Town Rapid Health Impact Assessment (HIA) was conducted as part of a studio assignment at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). The purpose of the HIA is to evaluate the potential health and social ... -
Planning for the Future: A Study of Sustainable Stormwater Management Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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Covid-19 Vulnerability Index for United States Counties
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)COVID-19 is a highly infective virus with a rapid transmission rate. It has led to a pandemic that has impacted millions of people all around the world. In the United States alone, over 3 million people have being directly ... -
A Text-Mining and GIS Approach to Understanding Transit Customer Satisfaction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-24)Performance evaluation is a concept that most can understand. Examples of performance evaluation include evaluating the performance of students in schools via assignments and exams, and corporations and boards evaluating ... -
Quantifying Impact of Weather Condition on Travel Time
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)Most transportation systems operate at capacity. Minor changes in the system could result in congestion and delays. One of the many impacting factors of transportation is weather condition. Weather conditions might lead ... -
Little Five Points Studio
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019)The Little Five Points studio set out to assist the recently formed umbrella organization of neighborhoods and businesses around Little Five Points (L5P) with identifying and advancing common interests. The studio worked ... -
Lindbergh Studio
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019)This studio worked in the Lindbergh neighborhood of Atlanta (north of Midtown, south of Buckhead), focusing on Peachtree Creek which runs, relatively concealed, throughout the neighborhood and the surrounding greenway. ... -
Measuring climate resilience in the built environment around the Atlanta BeltLine
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)There is a need to reorient the discourse around urban sustainability and, increasingly, urban resilience away from a reliance on intuition and appearance toward more rigorous evaluation of performance – particularly at ... -
Making Cataño Count
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)The School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech hosted its second iteration of its Planning Studio master’s requirement in Puerto Rico in Spring of 2020. This year’s studio focused on the United States Decennial ... -
Tokyo Smart City Design at Shinagawa
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05)The Tokyo smart city project is an international collaboration from 2016 to 2020 between the Eco Urban Lab of School of City and Regional Planning and School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, Global Carbon Project (GCP), ... -
In the Mix: Middle Housing and Income Diversity in Atlanta
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020)This study explores a correlation between Atlanta’s modest supply of middle housing (often referred to as “missing middle”), and income diversity among residents. While Atlanta has historically been one of the most ethnically ...
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