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 ...

This paper seeks to establish if City Improvement Districts are exclusionary in their legislation and application, and thus a tool used to propagate the objectives of the apartheid era.

The use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in the United States achieved enough time to dismiss the policy of the label “new” or “innovative”, but despite the variety of studies, TIF’s extended possibilities still welcome ...

A military on-post family housing site is selected as a setting for this study. Since this dissertation is the first study applying the TRA to housing satisfaction studies, it reveals many limitations with a typical housing ...

This report analyzes the factors that drove the development of Mount Prospect. Mount Prospect went from a patchwork of homestead farms, to agricultural production town service Chicago via railroad, to bedroom suburb, to ...

Studies of social vulnerability have repeatedly emphasized the importance of identifying the drivers of vulnerability, but very few studies have focused on empirically characterizing those drivers within the domain of ...

This paper seeks to explore the role architecture plays in the revitalization process of a decayed downtown area. It begins by understanding why this urban area became so barren and how a catalytic reaction can revitalize ...

This paper examines how individual expressions determine if sustainable outcomes are possible within neighborhood redevelopment projects. Focusing on Bristol Place neighborhood, it explores various perspectives related ...