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 ...

The sensitivity analysis suggests that, at least for the case of Seattle, the AITS-DID model is very sensitive to which years are pooled and which spatial subsets are taken. The fact that the pre-post relationship is not ...

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 ...

Job Accessibility measures how easily an individual can overcome travel barriers and physically reach job opportunities. However, previous JA measures have used inaccurate auto travel time. Also they have not considered ...