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    Shared Use Path Design for User Safety and Experience
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024-05) Lake, Connor
    The following analysis attempts to explore the following research question: What surface design most effectively reduces user conflict, increases functional active mobility, and encourages user safety on shared use paths? The research question will be answered by 1) exploring different design methods for creating shared use paths that contribute to the goals state in the question via a literature review; 2) attempting to define the culture that surrounds these spaces and a brief investigation of how this culture might be changed/improved; and 3) offering a design solution to spaces experiencing user conflict and travel experience.
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    Georgia Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program: An Analysis of Neighborhood Benefits in Fulton County, Georgia
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024-04-30) Robnik, Hannah
    The analysis attempts to quantify the benefits of affordable housing, specifically those created using federal and state LIHTC funds, to demonstrate the success of LIHTC not just in providing affordable housing for Georgians, but in increasing affordable housing resident’s quality of life and ultimately making Georgia a more livable place for all who call it home regardless of income.
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    Municipal Food Scrap Composting Programs: What Can Atlanta Learn from Programs Around the Country?
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024-04-25) Chen, Alicia
    In 2022, the United States Department of Agriculture recognized the utility of composting programs and launched Composting and Food Waste Reduction cooperative agreements. Through the agreements, $10.2 million were awarded to fund pilot projects that develop and implement strategies for food waste reduction and compost plans (and increase access to compost for local agricultural producers). The City of Atlanta won one of the grants to pilot its own food waste composting program in 2022 and pilot programs have also been started in the adjacent cities of East Point and Decatur in 2023. As these services are being implemented, it is a prime time to explore and understand what policies should be included in a successful municipal food waste composting program and to discern how existing programs around the country are actually performing. This paper will aim to answer the following questions: Which municipal food scrap composting program best practices are actually being implemented around the country? Which best practices should Atlanta prioritize implementing in its own program?
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    Engaging Communities for Climate Resilience Planning
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024-04-25) Van Slooten, Alaina
    The field of climate resilience planning has emerged in response to the increased heat, wildfires, storms, and myriad other complex challenges towns and cities around the world are facing as a result of the climate crisis. This paper utilizes a broad definition of climate resilience, encompassing adaptation to changing environmental conditions, improving systems' ability to respond to social and environmental threats, and addressing causes of climate change. While large-scale federal and international action is crucial, climate change impacts will continue to play out among local communities of people around the world. Climate resilience planners and other practitioners will need to work with communities to better understand the threats they are facing and design interventions that provide local benefits. Because of the urgency and complexity of climate threats, as well as controversy surrounding interventions seen as green gentrification, engaging communities in climate resilience planning is uniquely challenging. This paper will examine community engagement practices in climate resilience planning, with an eye towards how they impact the implementation success of the final plan. The research question is, "what community engagement practices lead to climate resilience plans that achieve implementation steps?" First, the paper will review literature to outline the evolution of community engagement approaches and define climate resilience planning. Then, the two concepts are brought together to explore models of community engagement in climate-related planning, emerging challenges, and current guidance on best practices. Following the literature review, the paper will offer four case studies of climate resilience plans with strong community engagement. The case studies will delve into the “how” of community engagement processes with attention to equity and justice: who was engaged, at what stages in the process, and using what practices. To the extent possible using interviews and research, the case studies will connect community engagement to plan implementation: how was the plan received and progress made towards its actions and goals. Finally, this paper will identify common threads and challenges between the examples to develop actionable recommendations for climate resilience practitioners seeking to work among and in partnership with communities.
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    Towards an Edible Atlanta: Cultivating a Sustainable Urban Agriculture Plan
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024) Patrick, Claire
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    Sea Level Rise and Migration: Understanding Future Climate-Driven Population Movements to the Atlanta Region
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05) Tatum, Kimberly
    As climate change leads to higher sea levels and stronger storms, many coastal cities will be increasingly at risk of a major local disaster destroying homes and vital urban infrastructure. Hurricane Katrina demonstrated how such a disaster can result in displacement of many citizens and how their social connections or existing disaster management procedures push them towards other cities, where they may settle permanently. Atlanta, as a major population center and transportation nexus for the south, should expect to receive high numbers of people forced to flee other southern cities in similar scenarios. This paper describes Atlanta’s migration shed: which coastal areas typically send people to Atlanta, which are at highest risk of future climate change impacts, and how many people could leave these areas for Atlanta. The analysis includes examinations of disaster and non-disaster migrations and sea level rise and storm vulnerability geographies in southern coastal counties. The final section consists of recommendations for a reevaluation of disaster preparedness considerations from a larger regional perspective.
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