Browsing Faculty Publications by Department "Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning"
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2020-09-02)This report outlines an evidence-based approach to planning and designing a community for children in care as well as local at-risk populations using the Golconda Civilian Conservation Center (GCCC) and the neighboring San ...
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(Center for Sustianable Development, University of Texas at Austin, College of Architecture, 2014-02)
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(2022-02-14)The project goal is to produce a strategic & technical project plan for The Texas Freedom Colonies Project’s Atlas & Survey (TXFCP) platform. Freedom colonies, historic African American settlements founded 1865-1920 in ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2021-05-24)This planning and pilot study will assess the feasibility of a community-based, interdisciplinary model for protecting endangered places and heritage in surviving historic Black settlements founded 1865-1930 known as freedom ...
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(Elsevier, 2014)Objective. This study is to examine changes in residents' physical activities, social interactions, and neighborhood cohesion after they moved to a walkable community in Austin, Texas. Methods. Retrospective surveys (N= ...
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(2022-02-25)“The Texas Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements& Cemeteries” (the Grant) funded through the Trust provided $50,000 to support engagement, mobile cemetery identification and ...
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(MDPI, 2015-07-10)Promoting walking travel is considered important for reducing automobile use and improving public health. Recent U.S. transportation policy has incentivized investments in alternative, more sustainable transportation modes ...
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(National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2017-07-20)Over the next six weeks the Forum blog will be publishing stories that respond to the question: When does historic preservation become social justice? We start with an introduction by Andrea Roberts, founder of the Texas ...