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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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 ... -
Forecasting ridership impacts of transit oriented development at MARTA rail stations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-04)The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Transit Oriented Development (TOD) program has been expanding the number of stations being considered for development of surface parking lots and into the air rights ... -
Measuring low stress bike access to MARTA
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-04)Level of Traffic Stress (LTS) is a bicycle quality of service measure originally developed by the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) that categorizes road infrastructure into four levels based on amount of traffic stress ... -
Bicyclist perceived level of traffic stress: a quality of service measure
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-27)Research has shown that people have different tolerances for perceived stress when they ride a bicycle on roadways and bikeways. This study focuses on building upon the Mineta Transportation Institute's Level of Traffic ... -
The decline and asymmetrical resurgence of American transit: a case study of Seattle
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-27)Public transportation projects are some of the most complex and costly components of urban development. While urban sites may develop naturally through the combined and only partially coordinated efforts of countless private ... -
The rise of economic development overlay districts in response to industrial land loss: insights from survey and case study research
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01-15)This research considered overlay districts as one technique to supersede Euclidian zoning, broaden its application to regulate land use, promote retention of industrial space and improve job development. Since the 1950s ... -
Polycentric development and transport network in China's megaregions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-03-24)China’s mega-regions, in addition to cities and metropolitan areas, have become the engines for economic development, and the target areas for regional and national policies. Reflecting upon China’s current path of regional ... -
Formers versus zoners; how and why communities shift to form-based zoning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-11-14)City design has long been recognized as predicated on power. Planners have the power to regulate the use and form of privately owned land—an enormous task. Zoning is the foundation of city planning. The caliber of cities' ... -
Measuring the spatial correlation between temperature and vulnerability across the urban environment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-08-25)This thesis aims to examine the spatial relationship between elevated air temperatures and populations most vulnerable to heat across the urban environment. To assess this correlation, the analysis focuses on the cities ... -
Bantam towns of Georgia: Small town revitalization and economic development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-19)Over 80-percent of the U.S. population lives in urban areas that occupy a mere 3-percent of the country's total area. Development problems and infrastructural stress caused by urban overpopulation can already be seen in ... -
Floating Tybee: planning and designing for rising seas
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-16)There is a statistically high probability that within this generation's lifetime, the mean sea level in the south eastern coast of the United States will rise from three to six feet above what it is today. The easiest ... -
Retrofitting closed golf courses
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-16)In the 80s and 90s in America, residential developers believed that the best way to make money was to build a golf course community. Premiums of homes on golf courses ranged from 30% to 100% more than the price of a similar ... -
Foreign direct investment and sustainable local economic development: spatial patterns of manufacturing foreign direct investment and its impacts on middle class earnings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04-07)Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the United States, which predominately occurs in the manufacturing sector, remains critically important for a strong regional and local economy, due to the resulting increase in employment, ...
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