This paper uses a series of data indicators to assess the likelihood that neighborhoods in Ohio's Cuyahoga and Summit counties identified as "high-opportunity" by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency will retain high levels of ...

The Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration aesthetic-based legislation, policies, regulations, guidelines, and procedures as well as their implementation are not only inadequate and inappropriate for ...

This report attempts to provide guidance to the City of Champaign’s Planning Department as it undertakes its first comprehensive review of the Zoning Ordinance since 1996. Specifically, this report seeks to build a foundation ...

The goal of this plan is to ultimately divert at least 90% of landfill-bound waste produced at Allerton into sustainable recycling and composting streams, thus reducing park greenhouse gas emissions and moving Allerton ...

Difficulties encountered during planning of rural development projects reduce the chances for successful implementation. Decades of experience with planning support to developing countries suggest that macro- and micro- ...

This exploratory research was designed to understand how poor communities appropriate decentralization policies to raise their expectations of the state and consequently press their own agenda in development and poverty ...

A thesis looking at three questions: 1) Are millenials leading the re-urbanization by moving back to and staying in the cities? 2) Are their location choices driven by their economic constraints or unique attitudes? 3) ...

It is also important to have a spatially balanced sample when the range of impact from a source is spatially limited. Stratified area sampling, taking all observations within a certain distance band, performs better than ...

Public participation has become a buzzword among planners and local officials in the past few decades as citizens demand more transparency and involvement in local matters. This study analyzes the existing condition in ...

This study investigates the personal stories of eight individual residents in St. Clair County who had their homes foreclosed on as a result of what appeared to be predatory lending tactics.