Browsing Colleges and Schools by Department "Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning"
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(2012-10-19)Public transportation policy plays a significant role in facilitating ridership as well as travel modes, economic activities, and environmental aspects. Seoul has experienced rapid urbanization. Also, high density developments ...
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(2012-07-16)There have been studies on the role of land use planning and development regulations on hazard mitigation and the importance of including these in effective mitigation planning initiatives. However, little empirical ...
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(2012-02-14)Ecotourism is considered an effective agent to conserve environmentally fragile areas while bringing economic opportunities to local communities at the same time. In the past decades, empirical studies about ecotourism's ...
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(2016-08-04)Floods have been the costliest and most disruptive among all natural hazards worldwide. In particular, urban flooding continues to be a concern for both developed and developing countries. Increasing physical risk associated ...
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(2013-07-08)The urban heat island effect is considered one of the main causes of global warming and is contributing to increasing temperatures in the urban United States. This phenomenon enhances the intensity of summer heat waves ...
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(2018-11-26)An important issue associated with the provision of urban green space is the distribution of the space and the resulting accessibility for communities across a city. As a public amenity, it is important to ensure every ...
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An Exploration of the Relationship between Street Patterns and Floodplains in The Woodlands, Texas (2010-01-14)The objective of this thesis is to explore the relationship between street patterns and floodplains. Although some researchers have written about the relationship between land use and floodplains in The Woodlands, few have ...
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(2017-06-02)An urban heat island is an urban area with significantly warmer temperature than its surrounding. Reinforced energy and pollution problems, changed comfort zones, and threatened endangered-population necessitate the ...
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(2022-05-31)Urbanization has had a significant impact on changes in the thermal environment of micro-scale urban spaces such as urban street canyons or blocks. Changes in the micro-scale thermal environment in an urban area have ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)An ecological approach to land-use planning is essential to maintain the long-term sustainability of ecosystem benefits, services, and resources. Concern about environmental quality and the long-term livability of urban ...
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(2018-05-04)As property losses from flooding continue to rise in coastal communities, the need to examine the changing dynamics of these damages in relation to specialized mitigation methods at multiple scales becomes increasingly ...
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(2016-04-08)This dissertation evaluated how spatial patterns of pervious land cover moderate flood impacts in urban areas during an extreme rainfall event. First, it presented criteria to characterize hydrologic functions of natural ...
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(2017-04-27)Every city seeks to spur economic development, and land, especially vacant land, plays an important role in these endeavors. Although vacant land exists in every city regardless of whether they are growing or shrinking, ...
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(2016-11-29)Texas Target Communities worked on a recreational site planning project with the people of Fort Bend County Heritage Unlimited Museum and City of Kendleton over the summer of 2016. The museum officials had approached TTC ...
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(2016-07-28)Over the past decade, the literature has demonstrated negative price impacts for foreclosures; socioeconomically uneven foreclosure rates; and inconsistent durations in foreclosure status. However, while the evidence for ...
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(2012-07-16)Affordability continues to be a major challenge for housing in America. According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS), in 2006, 57 million households were moderately and severely cost ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2016-04)Grimes County is facing growth pressures due to the expansion of Highway 249 and the proposed high speed rail. This plan articulates community priorities and values, presents case studies, and reveals existing conditions--current ...
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(2009-05-15)Increasing evidence suggests that the environment is related to many public health challenges. Unequal distributions of services and resources needed for healthy lifestyles may contribute to increasing levels of health ...
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(2009-05-15)Walking to transit stations is proposed as one of the strategies to increase the use of transit. Urban planners, transportation planners, environmentalists, and health professionals encourage and support environmental ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2018)This State of Community report was created by the Fall 2018- Plan 662 students in collaboration with Texas Target Communities and is for the internal educational purposes of the Texas A&M University students and Texas ...