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Pierce, Andrew Philip Londré Felicia Hardison. "The University of Missouri-Kansas City charrette a new approach to theatre training /." Diss., UMK access, 2007.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Theatre. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007."A thesis in theatre." Typescript. Advisor: Felicia Hardison Londré. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Dec. 18, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-79). Online version of the print edition.
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Douglas, Alan Andrew Lees McAninch Stuart. "Still in transition an ethnographic case study of the academic and cultural adjustment experiences of Kuwaiti students enrolled in a formal agreement partnership between an American university and the State of Kuwait /." Diss., UMK access, 2005.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--School of Education. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005."A dissertation in urban leadership and policy studies in education and education." Advisor: Stuart A. McAninch. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed June 23, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-262). Online version of the print edition.
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Ross, Gena L. "Kansas City, Missouri, Inner City Schools' Parent Involvement Policy, Practices, and Accreditation Problems." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4754.
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In 2012, the Missouri Board of Education took away Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) accreditation status. For over 40 years, KCPS has struggled with poor academic achievement, decreased enrollment and budget, and numerous leadership turnovers. Although KCPS regained provisional accreditation in 2014 and earned enough points on the annual performance report for consideration to become a fully accredited school system, state education officials first want to ensure that the district can sustain its new performance level before granting full accreditation. The purpose of this phenomenological research study was to explore parents' perceptions about how the KCPS' parent involvement policy and practices can be improved to better engage parents in their children's education and assist the school district in regaining and sustaining its full accreditation. Putnam's social capital theory served as the theoretical foundation of this study. Data were collected using semistructured interviews with a snowball sample of 21 parents, 7 from each school. Data were analyzed through Braun and Clarke's 6 phases of thematic analysis. Findings indicated the need for school personnel to be more welcoming to visiting parents, creating afterhours activities for working parents, increasing points of contact between parents and school personnel, teachers investing more time and effort in students, and school personnel making more efforts to keep parents informed. The implications for positive social change are directed at KCPS policymakers, school district leaders, teachers, and staff members as findings can be used to develop and improve policies and practices geared towards improving parents' involvement, which may help KCPS to regain and sustain full accreditation.
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Johnson, Chase. "Implementing the partnership for Washington Square Park in downtown Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17583.
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Master of Regional and Community PlanningDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
The use of partnerships between the public and private realm have become increasingly popular. This is due to today’s challenges of declining public resources to fulfill the social and physical needs of urban environments. This dilemma has placed a heightened emphasis on executing creative and collaborative redevelopment projects. Downtown Kansas City has an opportunity for such a project. Washington Square Park in downtown Kansas City, Missouri has a unique opportunity to stand as a catalyst project that would reconnect the urban fabric of the city, increase the population within downtown, and create an unsurpassed gateway into the greater downtown area. The public realm alone cannot accomplish this undertaking. Therefore, implementing the redevelopment of the park through public private partnerships is a natural choice. This study explores the intricacies of implementing the proposed Washington Square Park redevelopment project through the use of public private partnerships. It draws from a body of literature and precedents to provide background material, context and principles that are applied to the Washington Square Park project. The study employs site, market, and stakeholder analyses to assess the current economic environment, property ownership, power relationships and influences relating to the redevelopment project. These methods determined that as the value of Washington Square Park increases so will adjacent property; existing economic incentives are critical for project implementation; multi-family and retail real estate markets are strong while office trends are improving; current zoning allows for very high density with no height limitations; and several “key players” hold the attributes for establishing a conservancy for Washington Square Park. These findings reveal the symbiotic relationships between Washington Square Park and the surrounding context which provides the rational basis for project implementation through public private partnerships. Overall, this document informs the various stakeholders and decision-makers of pertinent information pertaining to the Washington Square Park redevelopment project and propositions a scenario for project implementation through the use of public private partnerships.
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Zhu, Shaoxuan. "The design of a low-income housing neighborhood for Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/36062.
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Besler, Erica L. "Measuring locational equity and accessibility of neighborhood parks in Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8720.
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Master of Regional and Community PlanningDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
Recent research has focused on assessing equity with regards to location of public services and the population served. Instead of equality, equity involves providing services in proportion to need, rather than equal access for everyone. This study uses three commonly identified measures of accessibility (minimum distance, travel cost, and gravity potential) to assess how equitable higher-need residential populations of Kansas City, MO are served by neighborhood parks. Using Census 2000, socio-economic block group data, areas with high population concentrations of African-American and Hispanic populations, as well as areas of high density and low income are characterized as having the most need. However, correlations of higher-need populations with the accessibility measures reveal patterns of equity within the Kansas City. MO study area. Results indicated that while most of the high need population was adequately and equitably served by neighborhood parks, there were still block groups that did not have access to this type of public resource. This research follows methods proposed in previous studies that utilize the spatial mapping and analysis capabilities of ArcGIS and promote the use of these tools for city planners and future park development and decisions.
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Wood, James Patrick. "Selling transit: perception, participation, and the politics of transit in Kansas City, Missouri." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17306.
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Master of Regional and Community PlanningDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Huston John Gibson
Informed and robust stakeholder participation in the transit-planning process gives residents and communities a remarkable opportunity to take ownership of the shaping of their city’s future form and function, and allows planners to design transit networks that serve the full range of citizen needs. Therefore, the degree to which citizens are permitted to participate in the formation of a city’s transit plan has a significant influence on both its final design and its subsequent adoption by civic and political leaders. Concurrent with the influence of citizen input is the role of political strategy, since many urban transit plans must meet voter approval and a poorly-run political campaign can sink even the most substantial of transit plans. In seeking to analyze both the role of public participation and the role of campaign strategy, this study employs descriptive historical research and stakeholder surveys to assess the impact and perceived importance of inclusive design practices, as well as the political impact of a transit campaign’s general strategy, on the voter approval of transit-related ballot initiatives in Kansas City, Missouri. There are two central implications of this project. One is that the failure of transportation planners and civic activists in Kansas City to accommodate the wishes and input of diverse groups of residents and community leaders in the planning process has led to repeated defeats whenever said plans are presented to Kansas City voters for approval. The other is that urban politics and campaign strategies play a larger role in selling transit proposals than many leading figures in Kansas City have realized, and that the city’s unique political and geographic structure requires a more nuanced and technologically-diverse approach to voter persuasion than has been applied thus far. It can be theorized that reversing both of these trends will increase the likelihood of future voter approval of transportation initiatives. In addition to a political and historical analysis of transit in Kansas City, this study seeks to examine whether deliberate public participation in the transportation planning process has a direct impact on citizen support for transportation-related ballot initiatives in Kansas City.
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Niesen, Shelly Lynn Coveney Raymond Martin. "Channel geometry and sediment characteristics of the Missouri River at St. Joseph, Kansas City, and Hermann, Missouri, 1928-2002." Diss., UMK access, 2004.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Dept. of Geosciences. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004."A thesis in urban environmental geology." Typescript. Advisor: Raymond M. Coveney. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 27, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-80). Online version of the print edition.
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Froese, Michelle Mazza. ""We seem to belong nowhere" : locating Missouri Repertory Theatre's identity in the field of cultural production of Kansas City, Missouri /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9712800.
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Vaughan, Katherine B. "Environmental justice and physical activity: examining disparities in access to parks in Kansas City, Missouri." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/12446.
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Master of Public HealthDepartment of Kinesiology
Andrew T. Kaczynski
Background: Parks are key community assets for promoting physical activity, especially in low income areas where other accessible, low cost resources may not be available. However, some evidence suggests these integral resources are not equitably distributed. The primary purpose of this study was to examine disparities in park availability, features, and quality across socioeconomically and racially diverse census tracts (CTs) in Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO). Methods: All parks in KCMO were mapped using GIS shape files provided by the City of KCMO. Park features and quality were determined via on-site audits using the Community Park Audit Tool. Data from the American Community Survey were used to designate all 174 CTs within KCMO as either low, medium, or high income and percent minority. MANCOVA was used to analyze differences in park availability, features, and quality across income and race/ethnicity tertiles. Results: Low income CTs contained significantly more parks (M=1.46) than medium (M=1.25) or high (M=1.00) income CTs, but also had more quality concerns (e.g., vandalism) per park. High income CTs contained more playgrounds per park (M=.69) than low (M=.62) and medium (M=.52) income tracts. There were more basketball courts per park in high minority CTs (M=.59) than low (M=.13) or medium (M=.30) minority CTs, and more trails per park in low (M=.60) and medium (M=.55) minority CTs than high (M=.39) minority CTs. Finally, there were more sidewalks around parks in low (M=.87) and high (M=.74) income CTs than medium (M=.61) income CTs. Conclusions: This study adds to an important body of literature examining income and racial disparities in access to active living environments. Park availability was greater in low income areas, but several key park characteristics were less common in low income or high minority areas. Future research should consider the quality of park facilities and amenities and the composition of neighborhoods around parks, as well as how disparities in access to park environments are associated with physical activity and health outcomes. Public health and parks and recreation researchers and practitioners should work together to examine policies that contribute to and that might rectify disparities in access to safe and attractive parks and open spaces.
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Seaman, Zachary Neil. "Designing and planning for the active use of public spaces in downtown Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13744.
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Master of Regional and Community PlanningDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
Kessler’s 1893 parks and boulevards system was established to spur investment. The 1893 Report shaped the present city pattern and form of Downtown Kansas City by encouraging decentralized city and metropolitan growth. Today’s system discourages pedestrian mobility and accessibility through the design and context of the public spaces. Since walkability contributes to successful public spaces, walking for transportation to encourage active use could improve today’s open-space system. To address the present condition facing the system, the report analyzes the morphology of Kessler’s parks and boulevards system within the 2010 Greater Downtown Area Plan boundary. For methods, stakeholder notes and professional interviews explain the planning process behind the 2011-2012 KCDC project to revitalize public space. The stakeholder notes and professional interviews assess the context of the Kansas City Design Center’s vision to revitalize Kessler’s parks and boulevards system. Using the StreetSmartTM walkability model, the design and context of public space can help revitalize Kessler’s 1893 system and today’s park system. The model can be used to measure and prioritize investment by assessesing the pedestrian mobility and accessibility of public spaces. The implication of the report is that if the design and context of public spaces addresses the public interest and walkability, public spaces will become connected, diverse, market-competitive, and actively used. Short-term pedestrian amenities and long-term infrastructure improvements provide different ways to prioritize pedestrian mobility and accessibility to create a walkable downtown, one of the goals of the Greater Downtown Area Plan.
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Petersen, Deanne. "Food truck fever: a spatio-political analysis of food truck activity in Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17546.
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Master of Regional and Community PlanningDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning
Hyung Jin Kim
Planning researchers and professionals have recently noted the social, economic, and cultural benefits food truck activity can provide within a community. As a result, the proliferation of food truck activity has challenged planners to reconsider the role of streets and urban spaces. Food trucks have the potential to enliven the urban landscape and enrich the quality of public life by serving as revitalization catalysts in urban spaces. While food trucks have become an increasingly visible aspect of street life, few jurisdictions have determined an effective manner to regulate and promote food truck activity. The study recommends how cities can improve current food truck policies in order to enable the revitalization of urban spaces through food truck activity. Using Kansas City, Missouri as a study area, the primary question was explored through three secondary inquires and their related methods. First, a GIS-based spatial analysis identified the spatio-temporal characteristics of food truck locations via social media data mining processes. Second, a survey of food truck vendors and interviews with city staff highlighted stakeholder conflicts that pose barriers to food truck activity. Third, a policy review in key cities and the development of a policy framework helped determine appropriate policy guidelines that allow food trucks to operate effectively in a city. The cumulative findings of the study informed food truck policy guidelines for Kansas City, Missouri. The policy framework also provides a structure for cities to utilize in order to analyze their own regulations. Sixteen significant policy areas are included in the framework, with the policy areas falling into one of three categories: permitting and enforcement, streets and spaces, or public health and safety. Appropriate policies that balance the needs of stakeholders allow food trucks to operate effectively, thus allowing cities to capitalize on the urban revitalization effects and other benefits that food truck activity provides within urban spaces.
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McDade, Carrie Leah Ziskin Rochelle. "The discourse of identity John La Farge's stained glass windows for Congregation B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Missouri /." Diss., UMK access, 2004.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Art and Art History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004."A thesis in art history. Typescript. Advisor: Rochelle Ziskin. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 27, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-153). Online version of the print edition.
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Besenyi, Gina M. "Park environments and youth physical activity: exploring the influence of proximity and features across Kansas City, Missouri." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/11493.
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Master of Public HealthDepartment of Kinesiology
Andrew T. Kaczynski
Background: With the dramatic increase in childhood obesity rates over the last three decades, parks can offer an accessible and affordable population-level solution to the important issue of youth physical inactivity. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the association of park proximity and park features with nearby youth achieving recommended levels of physical activity. Methods: This community-based study was conducted in Kansas City, Missouri. Valid physical activity data were obtained for 191 youth via a parent proxy survey with an overall response rate of 27.4%. Geographic information systems (GIS) were used to create three measures of park proximity within 1 mile of children’s homes. Detailed park characteristic information for all parks within 1 mile of the youth (n=146 parks) was obtained via observational audits. Binary logistic regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between each park proximity and park characteristic variable and the likelihood of youth meeting physical activity recommendations, while controlling individual and neighborhood level covariates. Results: All youth and female youth who had a park within one-half mile of home were more likely to achieve physical activity recommendations than those with no parks nearby. Likewise, all youth and male youth with three or more parks within 1 mile were significantly more likely to achieve physical activity recommendations than those with only 1 park. Further, youth that had a park with a playground within one-half mile or a baseball field within 1 mile of their home were more likely to achieve physical activity recommendations. Finally, having a park with particular amenities within 1 mile from home (transit stops, traffic signals, picnic tables, grills, trash cans, shade, and roads through the park) was also associated with greater odds of achieving physical activity recommendations. Conclusions: Parks are valuable community resources that can play an important role in the battle against rising rates of obesity and chronic disease in youth across the country. Better understanding the ways in which these settings are associated with physical activity among children can inform future research and environmental and policy changes that can promote the health and well-being of generations to come.
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Mathew, Suja. "Examining urban sociability and the built environment : a descriptive study of three urban plazas in Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/36111.
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Wilson, Johnny L. "A descriptive analysis of the freedom incorporated organization and the rise of Black political empowerment in Kansas City, Missouri." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1988. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/475.
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The purpose of this study is to conduct a descriptive analysis of the Freedom Incorporated Organization (Fl) and the rise of black political empowerment in Kansas City, Missouri. The study will attempt to analyze and examine the impact that Freedom Incorporated had in altering the social and economic status of the black electorate in Kansas City, Missouri. This study will also examine the political activity of Freedom Incorporated during its early years and the role of the organization in the City Council race of 1979 to elect a black as mayor and member of the city council in Kansas City, Missouri. To measure the political effectiveness of black elected officials and black organizations in improving economic, political and social conditions of blacks, the following indicators are to be utilized in this research study: (a) the ability of Freedom Incorporated to end discrimination in the public and private sector; (b) the ability of Freedom Incorporated to improve the number of blacks on city council, city boards, office of the mayor, county commission, Missouri Senate and House seats and the United State Congress; (c) ability of Freedom Incorporated to obtain employment and economic development projects for the black community; (d) the ability of Freedom Incorparted to improve housing, street lights, crime and health care; and (e) ability of Freedom Incorporated to improve the distribution of goods and services to the black community. Data presented in this study are designed to focus specifically upon several objectives. First, the data should allow us to empirically assess economic and social conditions of the black electorate and the relationship of these environmental factors to political activity and organizational development. Secondly, a critique, such as we have begun will help us to trace, ponder and examine black political activity in the Midwest during the pre and post Civil Rights Era. Finally, the data presented in this study seeks to explore for the first time a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the black electorate and black political activity in Kansas City, Missouri. It is hoped that this study, will contribute to the growth of scholarly research about the black political experience in Kansas City, Missouri. The findings of this research study nevertheless, demonstrate that voting and the election of blacks to public office has contributed to only a few gradual and remedial changes in the social and economic conditions of blacks in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Bozorg, Leila. "Spatializing social equity through place-based policies : lessons from the Green Impact Zone of Missouri, in Kansas City, MO." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59715.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The Kansas City Green Impact Zone of Missouri is a regionally administered, place-based initiative that emerged in direct response to the 2009 "federal moment" symbolized by the creation of the White House Office of Urban Affairs and the passing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Livable Communities Act. The initiative aims to coordinate and concentrate new resources in a 150-block area that - once the target of formal disinvestment and segregation - is now home to some of Kansas City's poorest African American families. This thesis uses the deep-case study approach to examine how place-based programs can simultaneously promote the three Es of sustainability (equity, the environment, and the economy) and to understand the challenges to organizing and implementing such initiatives. The thesis first reviews the people vs. place debate in urban policy, and introduces into that debate literature on spatial justice and sustainable development, to claim a role for equity concerns in the current urban policy and planning agendas. To understand the context in which the Green Impact Zone operates and the source of the problems it hopes to address through place-based investment and programming, the thesis then describes the history of decisions, policies, and programs that created a racialized, inequitable, and unsustainable landscape in Kansas City. The thesis then describes the process of developing the Green Impact Zone initiative, evaluating the strengths of the model and the challenges it has experienced to date, to draw lessons and make recommendations at two scales. The thesis concludes by suggesting that to effectively promote sustainability in all its three Es (equity, environment, economy), Engagement must be considered as a fourth E.
by Leila Bozorg.
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Warusavitharana, Chamandika J. "Sedimentology and stratigraphy of microbialite facies in the roubidoux and Jefferson City formations of central and southwest Missouri and central Kansas." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5981.
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Outcrop studies of sedimentary and stratigraphic features of microbial buildups are important in developing conceptual models for exploration of potential microbialite reservoirs. This study examines the occurrence and distribution of Lower Ordovician microbial fabrics in central Missouri and Kansas. The units studied include the Roubidoux and Jefferson City-Cotter Formations of the Arbuckle Group. To determine the depositional environments suitable for microbialite development, micro, meso, and macro-scale features were examined and their stratigraphic relationships established to the surrounding lithofacies. Microscopic-scale analysis reveals heavy dolomitization of strata, however remnant syndepositional features provide vital clues about the microbialite development.
The occurrence of microbial structures is placed within a T-R cycle stratigraphic framework. The microbialites occurred within cyclical shallow marine deposits and are grouped into three cycle types. Type 1 deposits include subtidal mudstones to packstones that graded into intertidal stromatolites. Type 2 deposits include subtidal mudstones and packstones with thrombolite fabrics that graded into supratidal facies. Type 3 deposits include intertidal or supratidal facies that graded into supratidal facies.
Thrombolites were more prevalent during the Jefferson City-Cotter and less during the Roubidoux times when sedimentation was high. They mostly grew at the top of the TST and bottom of the HST sequences. The stromatolites occurred right before the thrombolites during a TST sequence and after the thrombolites during an HST sequence.Thesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Geology
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Jones, Cydnie. "Designing a neighborhood to prevent crime and increase physical activity: a case study among African-American women in Kansas City, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19118.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Hyung Jin Kim
Obesity levels—related to an increase of physical inactivity—are rapidly rising in the United States (CDC 2010; Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2008). Reportedly, African-American women have the highest obesity rates when compared to any other demographic in the United States—especially those residing in crime-plagued urban environments (CDC 2010). Yet active living strategies by designers have been least effective amongst this demographic (Day 2006). Researchers report crime-safety perceptions are one of the biggest environmental factors influencing physical activity levels amongst low-income African-American women (Foster and Giles-Corti 2008; Codinhoto 2009). Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) has been the most common practice towards an intervention of criminal activity in the built environment; however, little practice has addressed both CPTED and physical activity. While first and second generation crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) are inclusive of addressing both physical and social aspects of the built environment (Cleveland and Seville 2008; Griffin et al. 2008; Dekeseredy et al. 2009), they have yet to effectively address crime-safety needs and its potential relationship with physical activity behaviors of low-income African-American women and their neighborhoods. Therefore, what built environment changes tailored for this target population—African- American women—are necessary? This study examines 1) what crime safety perceptions of the built environment are affecting low--income African American women’s physical activity levels in Kansas City, Missouri and 2) what design solutions these women suggest could help increase their physical activity levels, through improving their perceptions of neighborhood safety. As a place-specific study on a low income neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, selected through GIS suitability analyses with literature-based criteria, this study used survey and focus group interview methods to identify the target group’s design suggestions. The findings resulted with a connection from research to design solutions—neighborhood and street-level design strategies with CPTED guidelines linking the researched participant’s perceptions of crime in their built environment to the effect of crime on their own physical activity.
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Crabb, Douglas Wayne. "Theological reflection in the local church a theological reflection retreat to improve the deacon ministry of Winnwood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Missouri /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Tanner, Caroline. "Evaluating the interaction between extension educators and urban farmers in the Kansas City metropolitan area." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17604.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Horticulture, Forestry, and Recreational Resources
Rhonda Janke
With the increasing popularity of urban farming, more people are seeking resources to start their own farming/growing production in urban environments. Traditionally, county Extension educators are a key resource for beginning farmers and growers. However, urban Extension offices are often overlooked as resources in the urban farming planning process. The objectives of this study are 1) identify information urban farmers currently have, information they need, and their preferred delivery methods 2) look at the resources and information that are offered by local Extension educators in the KC metro area and 3) analyze how these two groups are communicating and what could improve to meet farmers‟ needs. This project evaluates current interaction between urban farmers and Extension educators in the Kansas City area through a two-pronged approach: a written mail-out questionnaire for urban farmers and growers in the Kansas City metropolitan area and through in-person one-on-one interviews with Extension educators that emphasize topic areas related to urban agriculture in the KC area. One hundred and nineteen farmers/growers were surveyed, and a 54.6% response rate was achieved. The majority of farmers had small, diversified farms and were relatively new to farming. Respondents were primarily older, white men that had higher education. Independently-driven sources (such as self-research, other farmers, and friends/family) were most commonly used sources among farmers. Overall, respondents ranked Extension highly in terms of information quantity, quality and as their "go to" source. Extension educators from Kansas State University, University of Missouri, and Lincoln University were interviewed one-on-one using scripted interview questions to determine topics and medias of information that are currently being offered. Production and processing information is offered the most by educators followed by distribution, equipment, and marketing information. Financial information was the least offered information topic. Extension educators use a wide variety of methods to distribute information. Most Extension educators are aware of benefits and barriers relating to urban agriculture in the KC metro area. Extension educators are addressing urban agriculture in varying degrees and the level of involvement corresponds to the Extension institution.
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Marlow, Joe D. "A report and analysis of scriptural focus a lectionary-based Christian year curriculum plan for adults of the Wornall Road Baptist Church, Kansas City, Missouri /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Harper, James M. "A project to design, produce, and implement a structured, didactic study format as a part of curriculum for supervisors-in-training at Baptist Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Smith, Richard L. "The development of a plan for restoring unsuccessful church planters and preparing them for possible redeployment in church planting ministries." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Dietrich, Donald A. "Urban planning and historic preservation Quality Hill, Kansas City, Missouri." 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/23814.
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Parks-Mandel, Sharon. "Catchment analysis of four Kansas City Hopewell archaeological sites." 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/27518.
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Al, Awar Ziad. "Adapting, optimizing, and evaluating a model for the remediation of LNAPL in heterogeneous soil environments." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18234.
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This research identifies the well components, operation factors, and the soil and hydrogeological parameters that influence the recovery of Light-Non-Aqueous-Phase-Liquids (LNAPL) in an heterogeneous environment using pumping wells. The purpose of this research is to improve the analysis of sites contaminated by LNAPLs to efficiently recover the feasible amounts of LNAPL in the sites. The focus is on heterogeneous soil environments. The model adapted to analyze the recovery of LNAPL from the contaminated sites was improved to account for a high degree of vertical heterogeneity, including the vertical variation of one or several of the soil properties within the same layer. This research also studies the optimization of the recovery of LNAPL for the system of wells both at the level of one well and a system of wells. The developed model and method are applied to a real site. Thus, the model’s ability to estimate the performance of a system of recovery wells is evaluated using real soil data and performance measurements. This research constitutes a robust background regarding the design, operation, analysis, and optimization of a system of recovery wells in a heterogeneous soil environment.text