Browsing by Subject "City planning"
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A mixed-use development is a combination of multiple programmatic functions that can promote walkability, create vibrant living and working environments, offer affordable housing, increase economic mechanism growth, and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Continuity among architectural structures in the urban setting is an often cited component of visual attractiveness. Since urban tourism is essentially based on visual attractiveness, architectural continuity is an important ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)This study investigates the relative attractiveness of new towns to different industries in the midwest and the sunbelt new communities and attempts to determine just how attractive new community living environments are ...
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This project in downtown Bryan is a response to the change of consumer preferences through neighborhood and community features that has been changed due to the housing-market slowdown. Instead of large-scale residential ...
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Even with ever evolving technology, movement within the United States continues to be an issue. Traffic and travel times increase as suburbs move further and further from the city while housing prices in the city rise ...
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Taylor, Texas, an accredited city of the Texas Main Street Program and my hometown, has a defined downtown core that has seen small attempts at preservation of the historic fabric. While all attempts are a step in the right ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)In recent years planning academicians, design professionals, and those specifically involved in land development have expressed a growing interest in improving their understanding of the processes and interrelationships ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This study attempts to identify the religious norms that governed and continue to govern the development of spatial form in Muslim cities, as a precept to formulating, anew. Islamic urban principles and determining their ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The fast urban growth of the Postwar period took place frequently in the form of scattered development with poor coordination of public facilities and services. During the same period, the traditional zoning system revealed ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)It has been postulated recently that planning analysis, and particularly economic development research, require more studies grounded in a sound theoretical base (Blakely 1989; Fosler 1988; Malizia 1986). If planning and ...
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In this book, I will talk about my final project. It is a project exploring Chinatowns in the US. There is at least one Chinatown in nearly every major city in America. These Chinatowns used to be ethic enclaves for Chinese ...
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Integrated forecasting analysis for comprehensive urban planning using vector autoregressive model (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Many urban problems are attributed to inappropriate comprehensive planning which fails to account for the dynamic and inter-related nature of urban activities in its forecasts. While many studies have attempted to integrate ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The purpose of this study was to develop a management information system (MIS) for parks maintenance operations. A review of MIS applications in business, government, and municipal parks and recreation departments provided ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)Primacy, the concentration of population in a few large urban centers within a nation, is characteristic of developing countries and is related to a high rate of population growth and an uncontrolled migration to the largest ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)The purpose of this research is to develop a new concept of an urban planning system, utilizing a systems approach to the overall concept and function of municipal organization and operation. The systems approach emphasizes ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)This dissertation explores Urban Design from an interdisciplinary perspective and suggests important interfaces between Urban Design and two disciplines; Futuristics and Communication. In the process of establishing the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The purpose of this study is to analyze the current housing problems in urban Korea and to present a new direction of its housing policy formulation and implementation based on Daegu City's experience. In terms of precedent, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)Although the concept of the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) has been proposed and implemented to a limited extent, there are some serious, unresolved questions regarding the interface of this new concept with the ...
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As the population continues to increase and cities expand in size, sustainable building solutions are needed now more than ever to help combat this unprecedented growth before it spirals out of control. This can cause ...