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Preservation of African American Spaces: Case Study of Sweet Auburn Neighborhood of Atlanta,Georgia

2022-05 , White, Reginald Jr.

The Sweet Auburn neighborhood has some of the richest histories for the African American community in the City of Atlanta. Many famous businessmen and women, lawyers, priests, and civil rights leaders for Atlanta all have connections or bases in this neighborhood. Leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Alonzo Herndon, and Madam C.J Walker to name a few. Unfortunately, like many African American neighborhoods over the years and post-urban-renewal, this community had seen a lot of disinvestment and neglect. Today, the significance of the neighborhood’s location in relation to the downtown district and the Atlanta BeltLine are major reasons this neighborhood is now becoming a premier community for people to live, work, visit, and invest. The core of this report will be the importance of preserving African American spaces not only physically but culturally as well. This will be done by reviewing the history of Sweet Auburn, examining the barriers and value of preserving historically African American spaces, and how past events have created a perfect storm for redevelopment, gentrification, and cultural change.

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Maximizing Opportunity in Atlanta's Housing Opportunity Bond

2021-08 , Thompson, Brock

The affordable housing crisis burdens the nation and America’s largest cities, in particular. In the absence of comprehensive federal action to provide residents adequate housing, local governments (cities and counties) are employing massive general obligation bonds for the purpose of providing residents affordable housing (“municipal housing bonds or MHBs”). From Asheville & Charlotte to Denver, San Francisco, & Portland, governments have pledged hundreds of millions over the last two decades alone to address the issue (see “Other References Not Cited”)1. Direct public provision of housing, site acquisition, gap financing for private development, and owner-occupied rehabs are among the most common uses of funds. To date, cities using housing bonds have taken different approaches to spending with little documentation about the extent to which that approach addresses needs. Some have focused on public housing while others aim to leverage private funding; some have committed funds mainly to assist the lowest-income households while others look to expand higher-AMI workforce housing (see “Other References Not Cited”). In the context of Atlanta’s proposed $100M 2020 housing bond (Pendered, 2020a), this paper is aimed at developing a spending strategy for City of Atlanta housing bonds. Goals include maximizing the number of households served in the near term and prospects of long-term affordability. This paper looks to reconcile the (1) Current and projected demand for affordable housing units in the City of Atlanta (by AMI and household size), with the (2) Costs required to supply affordable units of various types for each of those groups. A pro forma will model the impact of various housing strategies on the existing and projected housing gap relative to their costs. The spending strategies of other cities will serve as a benchmark.

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Evacuation with Efficiency: An Inland and Coastal Flood Based Emergency Evacuation Planning Scorecard Proposal

2021-04 , Newman, Ian

This paper focuses on the need for flood-based natural hazard resilience planning. It also addresses how having a quantifiable and practical scorecard for communities to asses their current statuses, in relation to their levels of preparedness for evacuation plans and programs, is a current need in emergency management planning. This paper offers a transferable, pragmatic, and implementable scorecard, the Flood Emergency Evacuation Scorecard (FEES). The FEES is this paper's proposal and can be used to help address necessary economic and policy directions towards helping to develop further structured and pragmatic flood emergency evacuation programs for communities that face chronic flooding.

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A Tale of Two (Modern) Cities: A Comparison of the Attempts to Regulate Airbnb in San Francisco and Boston

2020-05-03 , Ferreira, Andrea

This paper provides an overview of the history of Airbnb and its challenges within the city, including some of the studied impacts that Airbnb has had on both the residential and tourism sectors. Next, the paper evaluates the steps some cities have taken to regulate or ban the platform, through case studies in two comparable cities—San Francisco, California, and Boston, Massachusetts. Through these case studies, guidelines for other cities looking to regulate short-term rentals are established.

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Drawing Connections between Railway Station Ridership and Adjacent Urban Form

2022-04 , Maurer, Colin

This paper identifies and comparatively analyzes land use and urban design surrounding railway stations in the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), and Japan. The objective is to identify land use and urban design patterns that are associated with higher railway ridership. The analysis first focuses on descriptively analyzing aspects of urban form and land use that correlate with stronger ridership. Following analysis of previous research, four potential design and land use factors potentially contributing to ridership are investigated using case studies selected from comparable urban and suburban areas in the three countries. Patterns that correspond with higher overall ridership are then recommended for consideration in future transit-oriented development.

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Community as a Core Principle: Restoring Urban Headwaters and Implementing Green Infrastructure in the Upper Flint River Basin

2021-05 , Muller, Rachel

This Applied Research Paper presents strategies for incorporating community engagement in green infrastructure projects. More specifically, it will develop strategies for engagement within Finding the Flint, a project seeking to daylight the Flint River and create a Nature Preserve Park in College Park, Georgia. This paper focuses on Finding the Flint because the project exemplifies both the obstacles and opportunities associated with increasing community voice in watershed management issues.

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An Analysis of COVID-19, Air Quality, Race and Socioeconomic Status in Georgia

2021-04 , Chatman, Olivia E.

In the United States, the existence of air pollutants, which may have adverse effects on respiratory health, have disproportionately impacted communities of color and of lower socioeconomic statuses, an issue described as environmental injustice. Following the spread of the COVID-19 respiratory virus in late 2019 that resulted in a global pandemic, and has also disproportionately impacted vulnerable populations, identifying the correlations between the air quality and COVID-19 occurrences among BIPOC groups, also known as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, is essential to moving forward in addressing issues related to environmental injustice and health disparities among vulnerable groups. This study examines the question of whether Black populations in Georgia at the county level are more likely to experience disproportionality higher levels of air pollution and COVID-19 infection rates beginning with the conduction of literature review that identifies current knowledge and research gaps related to COVID-19, air quality and environmental justice. A spatial analysis of the relationship between PM2.5 air pollution, COVID-19 cases and deaths, race demographics, as well as socioeconomic factors in Georgia counties reveals any disparities related to health and air among Black populations.

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Fighting Small Business Displacement with Public Land: Commercial Community Land Trusts in the City of Atlanta

2022-04 , Oliverio, Gabrielle

This option aimed explored the community land trust model for commercial purposes and where publicly owned land could be leveraged to help combat small business displacement in the City of Atlanta.

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Race and Transit Investment in DeKalb County, Georgia

2021-05 , Lapwood, Bonnie

This paper aims to dissect intra-county neighborhood-level attitudes to transit in DeKalb County, Georgia, and the way in which they have fallen along racial and class lines during the five decades that the county has funded MARTA. This paper explores how these attitudes and their expression in neighborhood organizing have affected where transit dollars have been spent, where they have been wasted, and where they have not gone despite general support for them.

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The Impact of Traffic Density on Lane-Changing Frequency

2020-12 , Jiang, Qian

Fluctuations on roadways are widely considered as an effect of lane-changing activity. Lane-changing has been recognized as microscopic behaviors and elements in lane-changing models are considered to be mostly dynamic. But lane-changing decisions can still be influenced by some traffic conditions reflected as macroscopic factors. This paper attempts to correlate microscopic models with macroscopic models by exploring the relationship between lane-changing frequency and density. A descriptive analysis is generalized to explain lane-changing behaviors as a reaction to traffic density. It is observed that the lane-changing frequency increases in the low-density region and reaches a peak around a certain density. Five simple regression models are constructed to fit the NGSIM (Next Generation SIMulation) data. Based on three statistical indicators, the cubic model is selected as the best fit for the relationship between lane-changing frequency and density.

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