Extreme temperatures pose an increasingly high risk to human health and are projected to worsen in a warming climate with increased intensity, duration and frequency of heat waves, further amplified by the urban heat island, ...

As the City of Sandy Springs develops and grows into its own identity by developing its first downtown district, the need for efficient navigation and city branding became a priority for Assistant City Manager Jim Tolbert. ...

Significant research has been done to explore the effects of heat on human health and comfort, particularly as this relationship becomes more pronounced in the face of increasing temperatures due to global warming and urban ...

The Planning Studio from Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of City and Regional Planning program conducted a twelve-week studio on several portions of the MARTA Red Line Corridor in Atlanta. The intent of the studio ...

Pierre Clavel is Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. His research and writing has been on planning, administration, and politics with particular application to regionalism and nationalism ...

This dissertation builds and tests a model of economic and environmental resilience in developing country agricultural clusters. Borrowing from economic geography, institutional economics, global change, and environmental ...

As a result of the enactment of the 2012 national surface transportation legislation, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), performance-based approaches have substantially grown in importance and use. ...

Since the 2008 housing recession, American cities have been undergoing a reversal period where people who once fled the city center are now drawn to its alluring qualities. The period of “white flight” that decentralized ...

The long-term recovery and sustainability of the American economy relies on expanded opportunities, protections, and political accountability to our low- and moderate-income citizens. Strengthened financial regulations, ...