Browsing by Department "Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning"
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A comparative study of single family and multifamily housing recovery following 1992 Hurricane Andrew in Miami-Dade County, Florida
(2009-05-15)Anecdotal evidence in disaster studies suggests that multifamily housing takes longer to recover than single family homes, but almost no studies have provided quantitative evidence to clarify this “multifamily home lag” ... -
Connecting Land Use and Transportation Toward Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Area
(2011-02-22)How do land use characteristics affect individual and household travel behavior in a regional context? Can the investigation justify the land use policies to reduce automobile dependence and achieve the goals of sustainable ... -
Consequences of Commuting Patterns and the Structure of Food Retail Markets for SNAP Redemption: Implications for Food Access
(2015-07-30)Persistent food insecurity and hunger increase the risk of illness, psychological dysfunction and lower educational achievement. Even though these burdens affect society at large, they are most acutely felt by the individuals ... -
The correlational and causal investigation into the land use-transportation relationships: evidence from the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area
(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The role of land-use and related policies in reducing automobile dependence has been the subject of heated policy debate for over two decades. Previous research has shed light on the correlations between land-use and travel. ... -
Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies
(Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies (Roberts, 2020). Forum Journal, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2020-03-21)"To validate that a place exists or is worthy of listing as a significant cultural resource, it is the fundamental practice of planning and preservation professionals to establish measurable, documented facts: determining ... -
A decision support system for income-producing real estate development feasibility analysis and alternative assessment
(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The purpose of this study is to design, develop, and evaluate a prototype scenarioassisted decision support system (DSS) for use in venture and alternative assessment during the predevelopment stage of income-producing ... -
Design-with-Nature for Multifunctional Landscapes: Environmental Benefits and Social Barriers in Community Development
(MDPI, 2013-10-28)Since the early 1970s, Ian McHarg’s design-with-nature concept has been inspiring landscape architects, community and regional planners, and liked-minded professionals to create designs that take advantage of ecosystem ... -
Determining transit impact on Seoul office rent and land value: an application of spatial econometrics
(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This study posits that there may be a systematic bias in measuring the transit’s endogenous impact on land values in a built up area due to discrimination by location in the city. Studies of transit value-added effect ... -
Development of Algorithms to Estimate Post-Disaster Population Dislocation--A Research-Based Approach
(2010-10-12)This study uses an empirical approach to develop algorithms to estimate population dislocation following a natural disaster. It starts with an empirical reexamination of the South Dade Population Impact Survey data, ... -
Dickinson Comprehensive Plan 2015 to 2030
(2016-11-28)The City of Dickinson is located in Galveston County and is part of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The City has historically been a residential community, serving the surrounding ... -
The different urban efforts to revitalize urban neighborhoods in the United States and the United Kingdom: comparative case study based on governmental responses focusing on urban neighborhood revitalization
(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Many US inner cities that had once experienced enormous growth have suffered decline in physical, social, and economic respects. This experience has been limited not only to US urban areas but is also apparent in many ... -
Disaster and Social Change
(Franco Angeli, 1987)This chapter explores the potential implications of natural disasters for stimulating social change in impacted social systems. More precisely, this chapter focuses on large scale, sudden onset disaster events and explores ... -
Documenting and Preserving Texas Freedom Colonies
(Texas Heritage, 2017)Often a destination at the end of an isolated dirt road, though some-times found in urban locations, Freedom Colonies are hidden African-American cultural legacies. These endangered communities are in need of greater ... -
Ecohydrological Planning for The Woodlands: Lessons Learned After 35 Years
(2010-10-12)The Woodlands, Texas, is a 27,000-acre new town created with Ian McHarg's ecohydrological planning approach. The Woodlands is the best example of ecologically based new town planning in the United States during the 1970s. ... -
Economic Effects of Residential-Neighborhood Conservation Zoning in Bryan, Texas
(2016-12-13)The research contained in this paper assists in the resolution of the debate whether the Residential-Neighborhood Conservation zoning district within the City of Bryan, which restricts the number of occupants in a single-family ... -
The effectiveness of jobs-housing balance as a strategy for reducing traffic congestion: a study of metropolitan Bangkok
(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Bangkok is widely known for its severe traffic congestion. The Thai government advocates the concept of jobs and housing balance (JHB) as a strategy for reducing traffic congestion in Metropolitan Bangkok. The basic idea ... -
Effects of Economic Structure on Regional Economic Performance
(2014-06-04)Since the most recent recession, many local governments, which excessively paid attention to economic growth, have undergone tremendous difficulties caused by severe fluctuations. It shows that economic stability also has ... -
The effects of neighborhood environments on the level of physical activity among older african american women in Texas
(2009-05-15)The older African American women living Texas fall into one of the most inactive population segments. Recently, the importance of socio-ecological models on human health behavior and more complex associations between ... -
An Empirical Test of the Relationship between Sustainability and Urban Form Based on Indicator Comparisons using Sustainlane Sustainable City Rankings
(2011-02-22)Sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges to urban planning in the 21st century. Current patterns of urban development, called byspecially sprawl, and human activity have led to environmental degradation ... -
The End of Bootstraps and Good Masters: Fostering Social Inclusion by Creating Counternarratives
(Columbia University Press, 2020-03)"And Andrea Roberts explains how the Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas, another online mapping tool, serves as a platform for collaborators to collect and store data about Black settlements. But as Roberts asserts, rendering ...