Planning for the informal seems paradoxical. But planning without considering the informal a part of the urban fabric is too precarious. In Delhi, the river Yamuna is polluted by thousands of kilometers of open-access ...

Planning Support System (PSS) with a core of dynamic spatio-temporal model has been developed as analytical and information tools to aid and inform urban planning processes. However, scholarly communities identify that PSS ...

New York City, like many other cities across the world, is experiencing a housing crisis attributed primarily to rising rents against stagnant wages for many New Yorkers. As a result, over half the city’s renters pay more ...

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 ...

Wetlands provide several ecosystem services and are globally critical infrastructure in the era of manufactured climate change. With rare exceptions, planners and policymakers have neglected urban wetlands. In this research, ...

The purpose of this capstone project is to evaluate the impacts and success of the dockless bikeshare program that was implemented by the company VeoRide at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. To pursue this ...

This research attempts to provide a clear vision of urban information systems, particularly the application of information systems to planning and public policy making. The development of an expert system combined with ...

In July of 2008, the United States had the highest gasoline price in both nominal and real dollars since the 1950s. As a result, there was a record mass transit ridership increase in the following months. Urban planners ...

This study includes four counties in Central Indiana - Madison, Marion, Hamilton and Delaware. Fourteen major hospitals located within the study region are taken into consideration to analyze accessibility of traffic ...