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Gordon, Michael A. "Funding Urban Mass Transit in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1844.

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Thesis advisor: Richard, S.J. McGowan<br>As urbanized areas have grown across the United States, roads have quickly developed with them. Yet many cities have developed this infrastructure at the cost of failing to adequately fund urban mass transit, in spite of the important services it provides for the poor, commuters, and the environment. Consequently, many urban mass transit systems have struggled with deficits, increased fares, and reduced service. This study examines six major systems in the United States and analyzes data from these systems to provide policy recommendations regarding urb

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Kessler, Matthew L. "How Transportation Network Companies Could Replace Public Transportation in the United States." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7045.

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The quantity of cell phone applications or mobile apps have seen an upsurge at an exponential rate in under a decade. Many have been created for a variety of industries, including transportation. The advent and subsequent commercialized implementation of near-instant transport by a middleman-type of app is now known as a Transportation Network Company or TNC. Examples of the more renowned TNCs are Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. In recent years, TNCs have cultivated a tremendous following, to the degree of taxicab desertion. Moreover, the massive success of TNCs led to expansion of

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Adkins, Arlie Steven. "Determinants of Recent Mover Non-work Travel Mode Choice." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1919.

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Active transportation modes of walking and bicycling have the potential to help mitigate environmental and health concerns ranging from growing greenhouse gas emissions to increasing rates of obesity. This dissertation investigates how new movers make decisions about active transportation, particularly non-work utilitarian walking, in the context of a new home and neighborhood. New movers are an important, yet often overlooked, population in travel behavior research because they provide an opportunity to observe behavior adoption in new contexts, but also because the roughly one-in-ten America

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Gandham, Tanvi. "The Need for Enhanced Physical Infrastructure in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1761.

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Wheeler, Michael Terence. "Visualizing the transportation effects of urban mercantilism Eastern New York, 1822--1860 /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Trigueros, Marco Antonio. "An analysis of project prioritization methods at the regional level in the seventy-five largest metropolitan areas in the United States of America." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26682.

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Thesis (M. S.)--Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.<br>Committee Chair: Meyer, Michael; Committee Member: Amekudzi, Adjo; Committee Member: Garrow, Laurie. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

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Kwon, Sung Moon. "The Effects of Urban Containment Policies on Commuting Patterns." Thesis, Portland State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3711693.

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<p> During the past several decades, most U.S. metropolitan areas have experienced strong suburbanization of housing and jobs (i.e., urban sprawl). The sprawl that arises from urban growth has become a big issue in many metropolitan areas in the U.S. In response, there has been increased interest in urban containment policies. There are contrasting views (planning-oriented vs. market-oriented) of urban sprawl and urban containment policies. Planning-oriented scholars asserted the problems of `geographic sprawl (GS)' and the positive effects of urban containment polices, while market-oriented s

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Currans, Kristina Marie. "Issues in Urban Trip Generation." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3778.

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In the 1976, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) compiled their first Handbook of guidelines and methods for evaluating development-level transportation impacts, specifically vehicular impacts (Institute of Transportation Engineers 1976). Decades later, these methods--essentially the same as when they were originally conceived--are used ubiquitously across the US and Canada. Only recently, with the guidelines in its third edition of the ITE's Trip Generation Handbook (Institute of Transportation Engineers 2014) new data and approaches have been adopted--despite substantial evidence

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Griffith, Kyle C. "The Unmaking of an Embargo: How Policy Entrepreneurs at the Individual, State, and National Levels are Creating New Paths for Policy Change in Modern United States-Cuba Relations." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2148.

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Throughout the Cold War antagonisms of the twentieth century, the United States (US) championed greater global economic cooperation and an embrace of free market principles to encourage economic growth. Post World War II, passage of the Bretton Woods Agreement institutionalized this political agenda effectively establishing the rules of global commerce. The result has been increased economic participation and trade liberalization. One of the last remaining vestiges of Cold War hostility and impediments to trade is the US economic embargo of Cuba, in place since 1960. Increasingly seen as a pol

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Iroz-Elardo, Nicole. "Participation, Information, Values, and Community Interests Within Health Impact Assessments." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1846.

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Health impact assessment (HIA) has emerged in the U.S. as one promising process to increase social and environmental justice through addressing health equity issues within planning. HIA practice is guided by values such as democracy and equity and grounded in broad social determinants of health. The most readily applied definition of democracy is problematic because it implies an element of direct, participatory engagement with the public. This is at odds with HIA practice that largely relies on stakeholder engagement strategies. This dissertation critically examines the engagement strategies

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Davidson, Michael. "Assessment of Passive Fire Protection on Steel-Girder Bridges." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1213.

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Bridges in the US are severely damaged or suffer collapse from fires at significant rates, even when compared to other hazards such as earthquakes. Fire-induced bridge collapses are perpetuated by the general lack of installed fire protection systems. Therefore, new materials and applications are needed to mitigate structural damage that can be caused to civil infrastructure by severe fires. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to further the development of new fire protection applications in transportation structures. Specifically, the investigation centers on the development of new ap

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Wong, Kwan-wai Sammy, and 黃琨暐. "Multimodal freight transportation in United States." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952422.

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Wong, Kwan-wai Sammy. "Multimodal freight transportation in United States." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21129009.

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Burton, Larry D. "Strategic inventory positioning of Navy depot level repairables." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FBurton.pdf.

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Epp, Eduard. "The Arcadian metropolis : towards a sustainable urban form." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69773.

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Our own American past has an invaluable lesson to teach us: a coherent, workable landscape evolves where there is a coherent definition not of man but of man's relation to the world and his fellow man. sk{81} rm John Brinckerhof Jackson<br>This thesis endeavors to give evidence of the Arcadian vision, of a synthetic view of nature and humanity, as it has been understood in the evolving settlement patterns of American civilization over the last 350 years. This thesis suggests that the Arcadian vision is still very much a part of the American psyche and awaits reinterpretation. Evidence is given

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Manduca, Robert Allen. "Domestic migration networks in the United States." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90208.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2014.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-67).<br>In recent years, there has been substantial interest in understanding urban systems at the national and global scales: what are the economic and social ties that link cities together, and what is the network structure formed by such ties? At the same time, human capital accumulation is increasingly seen as a, primary driver of regional economic growth. Domestic migration patterns have the potenti

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Perkins, Judy Annette. "Institutionalizing transportation infrastructure investments and economic development : the role of State Departments of Transportation in multi-state economic development activities." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/32808.

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Kyung, Wonseon. "Decentralization of Urban Service Activities: an Empirical Study." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1338.

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Post-war metropolitan development in the United States has been mainly due to suburban growth which resulted in dispersal of population, retailing, manufacturing, wholesaling and services. What is known about service suburbanization is primarily derived from survey research on location choices done in localized cases. There has been no comprehensive work done using secondary data on revealed behavior. This dissertation attempts that comprehensive study. The research analyzes the dynamics of locational structure of services in U.S. metropolitan areas from 1969 to 1989. The descriptive analysis

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Salehi, Reza. "Identifying Sensitivity of a Simulation Model to Speed Data in the Midwest United States." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10844080.

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<p> Engineering practitioners using microsimulation tools to models traffic impacts, have limited guidelines from municipalities regarding how drivers behave. In the Midwest of the United States, drivers may behave similarly on certain types of roads. The objective of this study was to see whether there are significant differences in travel time and delays when using different drivers’ behavior input on VISSIM. </p><p> To conduct this study, the researcher studied two locations that had traffic simulation models already available. The first study site was a section of MO-364, which is

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Chang, John. "The problematization of urban sprawl in the United States." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-75526.

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This paper examines the controversy over urban sprawl in the United States. Because there is abundant descriptive literature about urban sprawl as well as numerous prescriptive “strategies” and “toolkits” to “tame” and “fight” sprawl, this paper instead examines urban sprawl as a social construction and specifically focuses on its non-problematization, the phenomenon of social groups which do not or refuse to acknowledge sprawl as a legitimate problem.

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DeStefanis, Anthony Roland. "Trains, Trucks, and Traffic Jams: The Rise of Automotive Transportation, 1880-1956." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626070.

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Glock, Earl Ferdinand. "The Rise of Modern Richmond and the Fall of Electric Transit." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626601.

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Littmann, Kathi. "Rethinking the Schoolhouse Boundaries: A Program Design for Urban District Transformation." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2009. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/557.

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After a century of reform efforts, urban school districts have not demonstrated political, managerial, or technical skills for systemic and sustainable organizational transformation. This study proposes that this cycle of reform failure generates from a theoretical misunderstanding of education organizations as mechanical systems, where failure points can be identified and replaced with corrective action in a controlled environment. This study begins with the theoretical understanding of educational organizations as complex adaptive systems with broad and deep internal and external connections

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Abdel-Karim, Ibrahim Amin. "Determinants of the Spatial Distribution of Peri-Urban to Rural Agriculture in the United States." PDXScholar, 1987. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/786.

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Two issues are focal to the subject of the spatial distribution of crops in peri-urban zones. The first deals with developments in the fields of transportation, other technology, urbanization, and other factors which are not only prevalent in developed world economies, but which also are thought to force the cultivation of freshly consumed agricultural commodities away from the immediate vicinity of the market center. The second issue pertains to indirectly consumed crops, which are thought to shun proximity to the market center, where land rents per unit area are characteristically high, even

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Kayser, Valérie. "Legal aspects of private launch services in the United States." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60462.

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The last decade has witnessed the development of a private launch industry. Under international space law, in particular the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, States shall supervise and authorize the activities of their nationals, including private launch companies, in Outer Space. In the United States, a substantial set of regulations has been elaborated to exercise this control over the activities of the private launch industry. This thesis analyzes, in a first chapter, the evolution which led to these regulations. The Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 and the subsequent regulations issued by th

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Mennie, James J. "A Culture/Climate Examination of Autonomous Vehicle Technology in the United States." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423130.

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<p> Autonomous Vehicle are coming. But mass adoption is at least ten years away according to consensus compiled from interviews conducted with industry thought lenders. Questions remain as to what technology those vehicles will contain as there is no universal platform for autonomous vehicle technology, since manufacturers, hardware and software companies are developing their own proprietary products. A/V technology is expected to improve productivity, and provide a plethora of societal benefits, but while we await the closure of the time gap the US will lose almost 40,000 citizens each year w

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Vinje, Daniel Martin 1959. "The Effects of Deregulation on Rail Rates: A Study on Wheat, Barley, Corn, Oat, and Soybean." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29868.

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Although the original intent of this study was to do a pre-and post-deregulation assessment of rail rates per ton-mile, the results using post-deregulation data show a significant decrease in rail rates between 1981 and 2000. While accounting for changes in shipment characteristics, savings for wheat, barley, com, oat, and soybean shippers were 63.80%, 69.17%, 49.07%, 67.97%, and 59.36%, respectively. Rate savings over time for an average 1981 shipment were 45%, 55%, 38%, 45%, and 36% for wheat, barley, com, oat, and soybean shippers, respectively. Analysis regarding the effects of deregulatio

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Cole, Neila B. "Regional Analysis of Log Truck Crashes in the United States between 2011 and 2015." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83486.

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Safe and efficient transportation of fiber is an essential component of the forest products supply chain, yet log truck crashes are believed to have increased across the United States. We examined two federally maintained databases to explore crash characteristics. Study objectives were to characterize log truck crashes nationally and regionally, and to compare log trucks to other similar trucks and assess differences. An analysis of 383 crashes involving log trucks across the U.S. were divided into four geographic regions for regional assessment. Results indicate that log trucks were sign

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Oswald, Michelle Renee. "Rating the sustainability of transportation investments corridors as a case study /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 232 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654493671&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Chhun, Sereyrithy. "Key complex issues impacting public private partnerships for transportation renewal projects in the United States." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1564437.

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<p> Highways have become a symbol of modern America (Levinson, 2004), and infrastructure investment plays a pivotal role both in short-term and long-term economic growth and in job creation. In the US, it represents 16% of the gross national product, and every dollar of public investment in highways has a net rate of return of 22 cents, and every billion dollars of federal highway investment generates 47,500 jobs (AASHTO 2003). In response to the inabilities to raise government revenues in the US, aging infrastructure systems, and high construction and O/M costs, infrastructure development has

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Choi, Jaesung. "Transportation Sustainability on Economic and Environmental Aspects in the United States: Statistical and Quantitative Approaches." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/24839.

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The dissertation consists of three essays: 1) Productivity growth in the transportation industries in the United States: An application of the DEA Malmquist productivity index; 2) how does a carbon dioxide emissions change affect transportation productivity? A case study of the U.S. transportation sector from 2002 to 2011; and 3) forecast of CO2 emissions from the U.S. transportation sector: Estimation from a double exponential smoothing model. The first essay reviews productivity growth in the five major transportation industries in the United States (airline, truck, rail, pipeline, and water

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Rivas, Victor 1963. "Large commercial airports in the United States : operative revenue framework." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69766.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 227-230).<br>The air transportation system in the United States is in a state of constant change and adaptation. Greatly affected by rapid changes in the industry are the large commercial airports that handle the greater proportion of passenger traffic. To increase capacity, maintain adequate levels of safety and security, and provide increased convenience and comfort to passengers, these airports need to invest heavily in capital programs, whose price

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Gordon, Johnnie M. "Readiness for change among urban school principals : leadership style and other potential influences." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1036820.

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This study examined the leadership style and readiness for change exhibited by elementary school principals in two urban school districts. More specifically, the study examined leadership style and four demographic variables; gender, age, highest academic degree earned, and years of principal experience. One hundred and twenty elementary school principals employed in two urban school districts were invited to participate in the study, 108 completed the required instruments: Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire, Survey of Readiness for Change (an instrument created by the researcher), and

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Holderbach, Hans. "The air transport relations between the European Union and the United States /." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21684.

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Air Transport relations between the European Union and the United States were nonexistent until the European Commission obtained in 1996 from the member states a limited mandate to negotiate an air transport agreement with the US. For the Commission, the achievement of an EU internal market with full competition among European airlines under equal conditions is impeded by individual member states' bilateral relations with the US. It requested a complete mandate to replace the multitude of bilaterals with a Community wide agreement. Member states fear that Community negotiations will not reflec

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TUMBDE, DEEPALI. "CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR ECONOMICALLY VIABLE URBAN RIVERFRONT REVITALIZATION IN UNITED STATES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1123542011.

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Patel, Parag. "We live this shit rap as a reflection of reality for inner city youth." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4818.

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Rap is an extremely popular form of modern music that is notorious for incorporating themes of guns and violence into the lyrics. Early rap was mainly party or dance music until the mid-80s when structural shifts in social conditions brought feelings of hopelessness and frustration into black inner city communities and youth culture. These feelings now find expression in rap lyrics. This thesis uses rap lyrics as qualitative data to understand the plight of urban black youth. Rap music can be seen as a form of resistance for young African Americans who have historically never had such a medium

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Foley, William A. "John F. Kennedy and the American city the urban programs of the New Frontier, 1961-1963 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204314.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0307. Adviser: Joan Hoff. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 24, 2007)."

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Richter, Julie Caroline Julia. "In Pursuit of Urban Property: Lot holders in Colonial Yorktown and Williamsburg." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625542.

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Redman-Ernst, Gilbert M. "Effects of Uber on the Traffic Fatalities in the United States." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1626723722407435.

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Hartell, Ann. "Sprawl and Commuting: Exploring New Measures of United States Metro Regions." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2015. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6095/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2015_07.pdf.

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The degree of connectivity and proximity that results from the configuration of land uses and associated transport networks is an important concept in much of the transportation research agenda. A substantial body of work has developed around the idea that compact, mixed-use development with multimodal transport options will shape travel behavior, increasing the use of transit, walking, and cycling for routine travel. Yet empirical evidence is somewhat mixed. One of the reasons for this uncertainty is the difficulty of defining and measuring sprawl in a meaningful way for use in quantitati

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Ritteman, Thomas Arthur. "Grains, Trains and Aqua-Mobiles." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29633.

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Grain shippers are constantly faced with making merchandising and logistical decisions while trying to achieve a positive net margin. They have to decide how much grain to sell and when the most opportune time to do so occurs. In addition, decisions regarding how much freight should be acquired and where grain should be shipped need to be addressed. These decisions are met by several sources of risk such as futures spreads, basis levels, transit times, equipment placements, and farmer deliveries. The primary objective of this thesis was to develop a model to determine both the optimal amount o

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Postone, Zachary E. (Zachary Edward). "Capturing environmental innovation through industrial cluster programs in the United States." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111429.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-86).<br>In number of formerly industrial urban centers in the Midwest, networks of private and public stakeholders are working to cultivate clusters of water-related technology innovation. Advocates of these cluster-based strategies strive to increase local and regional competitiveness by building links among relevant companies and local institutions, while also upgrading the conditions of the business e

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Kenis, William John. "A chronology on the development of rational design capabilities for flexible pavements at the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272312.

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Maclin, Stephen Alexander. "A democratic governance approach to urban economic development policymaking." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37427.

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This dissertation contributes to the literature on urban development politics. It takes a normative ideal, democratic urban governance, out of the esoteric realm of academic debate and applies it to a critical case study which concerns the most financially consequential area of urban policy, that of urban economic development. The principal elements of democratic urban governance are described, examined, and reconstructed as a framework for evaluating the policy making potentials in the present case. Beyond its academic contribution, this dissertation provides developmental policy makers with

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Ruffin, Santee C. "A national study of the urban high school principalship." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54408.

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This study was conducted to obtain the views and recommendations of urban high school principals regarding the principals themselves, their schools, students and communities, and the professional growth needs of the principals. The study will also serve as a resource for the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Urban Schools Committee as it develops programs and activities to assist urban high school principals. Eight hundred fifteen of 1,259 urban high school principals responded to a survey. Descriptive research methodology was used in the study of the principals from the on

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Butts, Jonathan J. "Community and social justice in New Deal-era urban literature." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.

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Wender, Stephan. "Between the self and the public : the co-implication of American literary naturalism and modernism in the modern urban narrative /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162270.

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Cross, Dale W. "An evaluation of approaches for urban mission discovering indicators of effectiveness /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Otero, Lydia R. "Conflicting visions: Urban renewal, historical preservation and the politics of saving a Mexican past." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280374.

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Integrating methods and sources from the study of Mexican Americans, urban history, and historical preservation this dissertation examines the interactions of race and space. In the late 1960's, Arizona's fast urban renewal project, the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project, resulted in building a new civic center and government complex in Tucson. Construction of the new expansive structure required that the city's oldest barrio or neighborhood be destroyed. In an era when the local economy relied heavily on tourists' dollars, city officials and boosters used urban renewal as an opportunity to e

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Lvovsky, Anna. "Queer Expertise: Urban Policing and the Construction of Public Knowledge About Homosexuality, 1920–1970." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463142.

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This dissertation tracks how urban police tactics against homosexuality participated in the construction, ratification, and dissemination of authoritative public knowledge about gay men in the United States in the twentieth century. Focusing on three prominent sites of anti-homosexual policing—the enforcement of state liquor regulations, plainclothes decoy campaigns to make solicitation arrests, and clandestine surveillance of public bathrooms—it examines how municipal police availed themselves of competing bodies of social scientific information about homosexuality in order to bolster their

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