The foundational stone of radical planning, Knowledge and Action in the Public Domain (Friedmann, 1987), focused on the connection between reason and democracy based on the concepts of the single and double loop of learning. ...

Champaign County has the goal of institutionalizing a welcoming philosophy to make immigrant integration a process that benefits both immigrants and the receiving community. This report documents the first year of an ...

This dissertation research focuses on development and evaluation of an efficient solution algorithm for a nonlinear three dimensional urban activity model. Specifically, Kim's urban activity model of land use intensity and ...

The purpose of this research is to examine the possible benefits of combining transportation planning models with geographic information systems (GIS) and expert systems (ES) in the hope that integrating these systems can ...

State-led land takings have been at the forefront of the battle ignited by a light rail development project in Fortaleza, Brazil. The project was planned to repurpose an old railroad upon which informal settlements have ...

This project studies the current institutional capacity of volunteer organizations in Vienna. Using nine dimensions of institutional capacity, volunteer organizations in Vienna, Austria, are evaluated.

Acid deposition has become a serious environmental problem in the last decade. The economic repercussions of acid deposition control regulations give rise to interregional and international conflicts as to who is to bear ...

Dynamic models vary in complexity depending on the time horizon length. In the short term, where we can reasonably assume that technology and the network topology and capacity are fixed we can model dynamics as a sequence ...

This study lastly demonstrates how the MTGS UML application schemas can be successfully implemented as platform neutral encodings, i.e., ISO 19136 - Geography Markup Language (GML), for interoperable information exchanges ...

As the focus of city development has shifted away from low-density urban sprawl driven by cars, active transportation including walking and biking has gained increasing priority in urban planning for its tremendous benefit ...