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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Arlington County"”.
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Examination of Taxi Travel Patterns in Arlington County
… Taxi travel characteristics are explored for Arlington, Virginia, a county containing both urban and suburban qualities. Previous research contends that manifest data can provide valuable quantitative descriptors of taxi travel. This thesis attempts to describe taxi travel by quantifying trip …
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Natural Forms: Stimuli For Urban Architecture
… in the context of the Clarendon sector of Arlington County, Virginia. Clarendon was the old commercial center of Arlington, which generated numerous layers of urban form.
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Dietary Acculturation, Physical Activity and Body Image in Limited-Resource Latino Women in Northern Virginia
… Eighty-five subjects were recruited from the Arlington County Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, Arlington County Women, Infants, and Children program, and the Fairfax County Parklawn Family Center. Demographic information, acculturation, fruit and vegetable intake, saturated fat …
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Vibrant City: Mixed-Use and Transit-Oriented Development at Virginia Square
… Square Metro is located near Washington DC in Arlington County, Virginia. The proposal includes "open plan" mid-rise residential, high-rise mixed-use, an identifiable transit station and linked green space with small scale agricultural potential. Mid-rise dwelling units provide the density to …
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Nothing is Perfect, But Something is Just Right: Redevelopment of Inner-Ring Suburbs - Integrating Ecological Systems into Modern Urban Villages
… path at the headwaters of Spout Run in northern Arlington County Virginia. Stormwater mains downstream from the headwaters have already been deemed below capacity for the unprecedentedly intense storms that have become an annual occurrence. Here, the major transportation and development corridor, …
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The Relationship Between Ethnicities and Suspensions
… students but tripled for Black students. In Arlington County Public Schools (ACPS), inappropriate student behavior that may result in suspension is classified as either "zero-tolerance" (for which the student must be suspended) or "nonzero-tolerance" (for which the school administrator can …
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Reintroducing the Existential Dimension of the Public Square: An attempt to design a place in relation to its natural environment
… located within a cultural center at Shirlington, Arlington County, Virginia. The buildings of the center form an architectural unity that sets the stage for community events to take place. The articulation and the form of the buildings related to the natural environment make people feel that they …
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Investigating Gentrification and the Role of Green Infrastructure
… displacement. A longitudinal case study of Arlington County, Virginia paired with spatial modeling was performed with census-level data. The results demonstrated how LEED impacts onto gentrification-related variables could be measured. Accompanying census-level data with localized surveys in …
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An evaluative study of the perceptions of school personnel towards a training program involving the comprehension of basic Spanish language and culture
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) are located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, approximately fifteen miles south of Washington, D.C. This school system is the tenth largest in the United States and it has a student population of approximately 130,000. Because of the size of the FCPS system, it …
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From form to function : an evaluation of the effectiveness and potential of form-based zoning codes
… Revitalization District Form Based Code in Arlington County, Virginia, and the Form Districts incorporated within the new Land Development Code for Jefferson County, Kentucky. For each case study, the thesis analyzes the political and regulatory frameworks, socio-economic makeup, and …