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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"sustainable neighborhood"”.
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Towards interactive sustainable neighborhood design : combining a tangible user interface with real time building simulations
… planning teams to develop high quality, healthy, sustainable urban plans. Presented in this work is a new such urban design tool, implemented as a design "game," created to facilitate collaboration between urban planners, designers, policymakers, citizens, and any other stakeholders in urban …
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Land value taxation as a mechanism to relieve housing supply constraints in Austin, Texas
… form. Lastly, the author looks at the Highland neighborhood of Austin, TX - a marginal neighborhood with recently completed light-rail stops, a regional mall being redeveloped into a mixed-use project anchored by a community college, and building typologies which do not comply with current …
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Mode and Departure Time Choice Behavior of Non-Work Related Trips
… behavior by examining the impacts of various sustainable neighborhood design elements like availability of vegetation/trees or shelter, speed and number of other vehicles on the streets, and the number of major intersections to cross on mode choice. We explore the impact of temperature on the …
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Resilient Ford's Landing: Stormwater Management, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, and Energy Production
… development in 1996, emerging as the rowhouse neighborhood that we now know today. Developed for a wealthy living in Old Town Alexandria, the neighborhood Ford's Landing now confronts geographical challenges exacerbated by the evolving impacts of Climate Change. In response to these challenges, …