In the third part, Miyazawa's extended input-output framework is employed to measure the impacts of unscheduled events, such as major natural disasters, that cause simultaneous changes in both supply and demand, as well ...

This research attempts to provide a clear vision of urban information systems, particularly the application of information systems to planning and public policy making. The development of an expert system combined with ...

In July of 2008, the United States had the highest gasoline price in both nominal and real dollars since the 1950s. As a result, there was a record mass transit ridership increase in the following months. Urban planners ...

Institutional racism in the United States has evolved into a “racial state” that situates the state as a reproducer of the inequalities of the past in terms of resource allocation, social consciousness, and political power, ...

Social capital, narrowly defined as networks of individuals who are linked through bonding or bridging relationships, has become a much discussed but poorly interrogated concept within studies of place based development. ...

I highlight the importance of formal training of partners to address power discrepancies. It is pointed out that the power discrepancies lead to problems setting agendas that work well for both sides of the partnership. ...

This thesis is divided into eight chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Background; (3) Research Design and Methodology; (4) Literature Review and Variable Construction; (5) Data Collection; (6) Data Analysis; (7) Findings; and ...

Paper 1: The changing landscape of regional economic development practice: Findings from a survey of regional economic development organizations in US metropolitan areas Regional-scale economic development practice has ...

Changing urban settlement patterns and government housing policies have combined over the past sixty years to create public housing developments that economically and socially isolate residents within inner-city neighborhoods. ...

This dissertation concerns the diffusion of Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit concept between 1929 and 1969. It is grounded in a discourse analysis of the use of the Neighborhood Unit concept in the literature of twenty ...