Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. State of Texas on June 19th 1865, two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Champaign-Urbana celebrates ...

This thesis critically highlights the promises and shortcomings of women’s formal ownership of land (land titling) as a means towards women’s empowerment. The literature extensively documents the costs and benefits of ...

Although it has been readily acknowledged that regional economic growth and structural changes can directly affect land use patterns within the regions, little is known about the inverse: how a change or intervention in ...

This report is an in-depth analysis of a clean street program with recommendations on how it can be applied to the neighborhood of Little Village. Little Village is a neighborhood in southwest Chicago that has been plagued ...

This study also finds that impacts at the community-level may be highly variable even if the region as a whole recovers quickly. Local economies in the aggregate may recover but not all businesses recover. In Grafton, some ...

This study of Tamesna illuminates the contradictions that emerge when housing authorities work toward competing goals of providing quality housing to poor residents and creating financial incentives for private housing ...

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Maria and Irma, more community planning funding has been allocated to Puerto Rico than ever before. In the coming months, the Municipality of Loiza will have the opportunity to apply ...

This study was conducted in order to gather information about the views, opinions, and concerns of farm operators in the Mackinaw River watershed. This study will aid The Nature Conservancy, Central Illinois Field Office ...

This dissertation presents a model which is a continuous-time representation of a forested system. This system model is used to simulate the impacts of strategic behavior in managing lands in a local commons, on and around ...

About 99% of Chicago's sewers collect stormwater and sanitary sewage in the same pipes and direct the combination to one of the MWRD water reclamation plants for treatment before discharge. Heavy rain events cause problems ...