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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"City of Austin"”.
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Assessment of City of Austin Social Service Contracting Practices
… literature review to examine all facets of government social service contracting practices. A preliminary framework is developed and utilized as a tool to analyze the performance of the City of Austin’s Health and Human Services Department’s (HHSD) social service contracting processes. …
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An Analysis of Electric Utility Fund Transfer in the City of Austin, Texas
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Deliberative Democracy in Action: Exploring the 2012 City of Austin Bond Development Process
… First, this study identifies key components of an effective deliberative process. Second, it explores the City of Austin's efforts at public engagement by determining whether these key components were present in the 2012 Austin bond development process deliberations, and finally, this paper …
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Programmatic and fixed variables and their effects on commuting by bicycle in two cities : a descriptive case study
Rapid growth and congestion within the City of Austin amplify the need to plan for and incorporate multi-modal infrastructure, facilities and policies. According to the 2005 US Census sample, the City of Austin falls short of many other bicycle-friendly cities in the number of commuters riding …
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Town and gown bikeways planning : an analysis of bicycle planning within the greater University of Texas-Austin community and the City of Austin as compared to similar college communities
… efforts for bikeway networks. An examination of the bicycle plans, use of bicycle boulevards and bike lanes, etc. will be applied to towns known for their university populations such as Berkeley, California with the University of California and Palo Alto, California with Stanford University …
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Spatial Distributions of Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence by Firearm Involvement
… study examines whether the spatial distribution of serious violence is influenced by whether the incident was domestic or not, firearm-involved or not, and any combination of these characteristics, to determine if disaggregation of the data into subgroups may aid in policy development. Data on …
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Fair work Austin : a study of consumer willingness to pay for premier community builders certified construction in Austin, Texas
The city of Austin in recent years has undertaken a number of planning initiatives to guide future development in the rapidly-growing urban area. What has emerged is a clear commitment to a broad definition of sustainability that includes environmental, economic, and social sustainability among …
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Connecting backyard wildlife habitats in Austin, TX : case study of Wildlife Austin
Urbanization is considered one of the leading threats to biodiversity and wildlife habitat (McKinney 2002; Shochat et al. 2006). Urban environments are humandominated systems, yet they support wildlife habitat and provide meaningful ecological functions. Methods to conserve biodiversity and …
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AI-in-the-loop human interventions for homelessness resource allocation
… to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of human resource allocation decisions. The use of AI in public resource allocation is promising in its ability to reduce administrative burden while optimally solving complex resource allocation problems. This work examines the problem of …
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The Effect of Antecedent Dry Time on Water Quality Inflow and Outflow to Wet Ponds and Pollutant Removal Efficiency
Storm water is a significant source of pollutants in urban areas. Urbanization results in reduced water quality of surface waters due to the loss of vegetation and pervious areas, and increased impervious cover, pollutant loading, and volume and velocity of storm water runoff. The potential for …
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Municipal Utility Districts in Central Texas
In most cases, a city provides water and wastewater service within its boundaries, but when development occurs outside city limits or when the city cannot provide services, there must be some method for paying for the water and wastewater services. In Texas, a developer can create a Municipal …
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Longitudinal multilevel models analyzing the trends of land use effects on non-driving travel choice
… energy and social equity issues. However, most of the previous studies rely on methodologies developed by cross-sectional data; only limited attention is explicitly given to explore the statistical techniques for longitudinal design and analysis. Using the neighborhood-level land use and …
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A case study of community response to a health crisis from a communication perspective
The city of Austin is a small community in Southern Indiana that experienced a large HIV/AIDS outbreak which infected over 180 people. Due to rapid spread of the disease from shared needles during intravenous drug use, a public health emergency was declared in March 2015. This epidemic was a …
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Analysis of Gentrification and Green Spaces in East Austin, Texas
… within cities, can cause unjust displacement of traditional, low-income residents in residential neighborhoods, and inequitable access to community services and benefits. Because of the negative social impacts that gentrification can have, many local governments and agencies have been known to …
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Routinization of Sustainable Innovation in Public Sector (A LEED Analysis)
Innovation can be defined as "The use of non-trivial change and improvement in a process, product or the system that is novel to the institution developing the change" (Slaughter1998). And once an innovation is constantly used by an organization on a regular basis, it leads to routinization. Rogers …
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Land use change through market dynamics : a Microsimulation of land development, the bidding process, and location choices of households and firms
… traffic and other impacts, the process of land development highlights a need for land use models with behavioral foundations. Such models seek to anticipate future settlement and transport patterns, helping ensure effective public and private investment decisions and policymaking, to …