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 ...

The objective of this report is to provide Knoxville residents and decision-makers a foundation for policy and fiscal program implementation within the TIF district. The plan helps to define the main goals of Knoxville's ...

In this dissertation, two dynamic transportation models are formulated and analyzed. When employed in optimal control exercises, these models determine for some metropolitan highway a set of optimal transportation policies, ...

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the logic of urban growth management programs from the perspective of efficiency in infrastructure provision. Of the many urban growth management and control instruments, two ...

Mercer County is home to approximately 16,000 residents in rural, northwestern Illinois and is currently in the midst of a community-driven planning process with the goal of establishing a countywide economic development ...

The City of Danville, Illinois, proposed creating a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district in the Midtown and Western Gateway areas of the city. The goal for the redevelopment areas is tri-fold: to return these areas to ...