School of City and Regional Planning Theses and Dissertations
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A Greenspace Ethnography of Southwest Atlanta: A Review and Tool
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)The purpose of this thesis study is to provide a tool and foundation for a community science-based greenspace ethnography of a neighborhood. The research requires an assessment of environmental history, policy, plans, and ... -
Re-Think the Streets: An Evaluation of Green Street Practices as a Method to Achieve Combined Sewer Separation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-19)Older cities across the United States have been grappling with how to mitigate stormwater for decades. The ongoing trend of land development coupled with the heightened frequency and intensity of storm events has necessitated ... -
The serious potential of fun games: a new model for public engagement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-25)This dissertation examines the relationship between game playing and social learning in public participation activities and whether and to what extent participants demonstrate enhanced collaborative decision making (collective ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
The application of ecosystem services in higher education planning: Very high research institutes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-28)The question this study aims to answer is “Are ecosystem services being utilized within campus planning frameworks to address human health and environmental performance?” and then –“If yes- is there an effective measurement ... -
Travel behavior dynamics from a longitudinal perspective in Indonesia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-22)This dissertation links urbanization phenomenon with the literature of travel behavior, particularly as it relates to its interaction with the built environment. The aim is to extend the collective understanding of how the ... -
A methodological assessment of extreme heat mortality modeling and heat vulnerability mapping in Atlanta, Detroit, and Phoenix
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-12)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, ... -
Estimating managed lanes door-to-door travel timesavings using shortest path algorithms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-08-27)Implementing managed lanes, such as high-occupancy toll lanes, within existing urban highway corridors has become increasingly common in cities that want to provide a reliable transportation option but lack sufficient ... -
Economic and social sustainability of sidewalk infrastructure
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-08-27)The presence of sidewalks and quality of sidewalk infrastructure are important indicators of perceived pedestrian safety and the walkability of neighborhoods. However, a wide gap exists between the accessibility and quality ... -
Analyzing the difference between bike share trips made on regular and electric bicycles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-09-11)In 2017, JUMP Bicycle Company introduced dockless electric bicycles in several cities in the United States. Two of these cities were Austin, TX, and Atlanta, GA, both of which already had bikeshare companies operating with ... -
Will millennials stay in cities and travel without cars?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-24)Will millennials stay in cities and travel without cars? To answer this question, this dissertation examines heterogeneity in modality styles and residential preferences in a sample of millennials and members of Generation ...
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