School of City and Regional Planning Theses and Dissertations
Original work in partial fulfillment of a graduate degree in the School of City and Regional Planning.
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What Metropolitan-Level Factors Affect Latino-Owned Business Performance?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-07)An estimated 1.54 million Latinos are self-employed in unincorporated businesses, while the 2012 national Survey of Business Owners counted 3.3 million Latino-owned firms, with a total of $474 million in annual sales or ... -
Federal Transit Funding Implications of Urbanization: A Nationwide Assessment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-24)Between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of the US population residing in urban areas increased by over 12% (US Census Bureau 2011). Using variables to predict urbanization (proximity and economic variables, among others) and ... -
Electronic retail effects on airports and regional development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-04)This dissertation is an investigation of the relationship between e-retail logistics (e-fulfillment) and aviation, and of airport staff’s planning responses to e-fulfillment. By its nature, planning requires a thorough ... -
The impact of racial segregation, income sorting and risk-based mortgage pricing on housing wealth inequality: A comparison between urban regions in the United States
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-25)Housing wealth is the cornerstone of U.S. households’ balance sheets and is among the largest stores of wealth in the United States. This study examines rising housing wealth inequality between 2005 and 2015 in an urban ... -
Linking MPBN and system of system thinking: To improve outcomes in urban environments using Chinese worker villages as a test case
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-30)Urban environments are composed of a multitude of systems that actively engage with each other to maintain, grow, and define the physical forms of the city. These individual aspects can be divided up into a series of system ... -
Adaptive efficiency in coffee clusters: Resilience through agglomeration, global value chains, social networks, and institutions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-18)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 ... -
Exploring urban agriculture as a climate change mitigation strategy at the neighborhood scale
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-08-28)Extreme heat events are responsible for more annual fatalities in the United States than any other form of extreme weather. Urban centers are particularly vulnerable to the threats of excessive heat as most cities are home ... -
The characteristics of resilient neighborhood housing markets during and after the housing crisis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-11)Since the Great Recession, housing market resilience has been of critical interest to academicians and practitioners who have raised the question of why some neighborhoods are more affected by financial crises than others. ... -
Advancing strategic focuses through performance-based evaluation – the growth of state dot approaches
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-08-01)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. ... -
The interaction between land use and transportation in the era of shared autonomous vehicles: a simulation model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-19)The promising Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) system will inevitably lead to changes in urban land use. Despite recent proliferating studies regarding SAVs, it remains unclear how this affordable and environmentally friendly ... -
Density and energy performance of solar powered buildings in the urban context
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-15)The relationships between urban density, built form and building energy performance are examined using two research methods: explorative and empirical research. In the explorative research, parametric experiments are made ... -
Sustainable urban water use with a GIS planning support system: A case study of metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-19)This dissertation discusses a sustainable water use framework, including chief determinants of water consumption. It presents sample analyses of sustainable water uses and demonstrates a GIS-based planning support system ... -
Spatiotemporal patterns of urban tree canopy and environmental equity in Atlanta
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-28)With growing concerns about climate change, the benefits of urban tree canopy has gained a significant attention, leading to various efforts aimed at increasing urban tree canopy. Because urban tree canopy is often considered ... -
Metropolitan housing market restructuring and implications for poverty deconcentration: The effects of foreclosures on the spatial distribution of housing choice voucher residencies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-12)The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the largest federally subsidized affordable housing program in the U.S., where one of the program’s goals is to deconcentrate poverty and alleviate the standard of living for ... -
Parking policies for resurging cities: An Atlanta case study
(Geomrgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-01)Parking policies lie at the intersection of land use and transportation. Although often overlooked by traditional planning and engineering methods, parking can serve as an amplifier for an area’s success or failure. The ... -
Landscape anthropometrics: A multi-scale approach to integrating health into the regional landscape
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-20)This research creates a consistent, scalable approach for incorporating health considerations into regional land planning. A prototypical framework is presented for the Atlanta region. Determinants of healthy places from ... -
Assessing the influence of policy factors on alternative fuel vehicle adoption in Georgia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-29)To make a compelling case for government incentives as a stimulus for alternative fuel vehicle adoption, this thesis assesses the preliminary impacts associated with the elimination of Georgia’s income tax credits for ... -
An evaluation of the physical and demographic characteristics contributing to on-site sewage management system failure in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-28)When designed, installed, and maintained properly, septic systems provide a cost-effective and environmentally-sound method to treat domestic wastewater. However, poor installation, unsuitable site conditions, and infrequent ... -
The potential of express bus to serve peak travel demand to outlying employment centers: A case study of the Atlanta region
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-11)This thesis investigates the potential of express bus to serve travel demand in a polycentric region, using the Atlanta metropolitan area as a case study. Express bus, which serves as the primary mode of line-haul transit ... -
Measuring the cost-effectiveness of idle reduction technologies in heavy-duty trucks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-15)The main objective of idle reduction devices is to reduce the amount of energy wasted by idling trucks, decrease exhaust emissions and save in fuel use and maintenance costs and vehicle life extension. To achieve reductions ...
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