Master of City and Regional Planning

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Master of City and Regional Planning

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A Plan for Industrial Land and Sustainable Industry in the City of Atlanta

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-12-08) Driemeier, Kale ; Hoelzel, Nathanael ; Jain, Rahul ; Mansbach, Jodi ; Morrow, Edward ; Moseley, Charlie ; Stevens, Shelley ; Zayas, Ermis

The Atlanta Development Authority commissioned this report from the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech to better understand the problems and solutions to its loss of industrial land. In this report, we present a plan for the protection of industrial land in the City of Atlanta and to further the goal of stimulating future growth in Atlanta's industrial sector, all with an eye toward sustainability.
Strategies for Neighborhood Recovery: High Point, Joyland and Chosewood Park, Atlanta

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-12) Lee, S. Won ; Brandon, Leonard J. ; Berry, Kirsten ; Mullins, Nicholas ; Sinclair, Alyssa ; Mager, Christine ; Brandon, Leonard J. ; Smith, Brooks ; Hawes, Mary Beth ; Adrian, Troels ; Lee, Yung San
Lujiazui:Pudong: Retrofits

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-12) Dagenhart, Richard ; Yang, Perry Pei-Ju ; Getty, Drew ; Thompson, Claire ; Williams, Galen ; Jones, Paul ; Murphy, Diana ; Tabor, Reginald ; Johnson, Louis ; Sanders, Julie ; Ghizoni, Renato ; Morrow, Edward ; Wallace, Ross

A joint two-week workshop in Shanghai sponsored by the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech and the Department of Architecture at Tongji University. Projects were prepared in teams of Chinese and American students as retrofits to Lujiazui, the new financial “downtown” in Pudong, Shanghai.
The inaccessibility of elementary schools in Fulton County causes, consequences, and alternatives

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-08-24) Smith, Sarah M.

Everyone understands that elementary schools in suburban areas are inaccessible and poorly sited. A compelling conclusion from this thesis is that only 12% of the approximately 40,000 elementary school children in Fulton County, Georgia, the focus of this study, are able to walk to school, given the school location and siting. Clearly, school location is a critical impediment for walkability, which is an emerging focus of public health. Three guiding questions are posed to explore the causes and consequences of elementary school inaccessibility. First, what influences the selection and design of elementary school sites in suburban locations? Second, what is the specific evidence that demonstrates inaccessibility? Third, what actions can be taken to address the problem? Schools located in Fulton County, Georgia are the subject of this thesis because Fulton County is typical of most suburban areas, in that the housing patterns are characterized by low density, cul-de-sac type development, large block size, and are designed with an assumption of total reliance on automobiles. Fifty-three elementary schools are included in this study. Recommendations and strategies are provided to correct the problems in existing schools to make them more accessible. The conclusions and recommendations follow the analysis and strategies are offered at three scales of analysis.
Coding the urban form

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-04) Habeeb, Dana M.

What are the essential characteristics that constitute historic American neighbor- hoods? Do current regulations promote developments that exhibit these essential characteristics? In this thesis I analyze two historic neighborhoods in an effort to un- cover their architectonic principles. By identifying the key components that comprise these places, we can critically analyze whether regulations, such as Historic Preserva- tion Ordinances and the SmartCode, are adequately designed to govern development practices of residential neighborhoods.
Development of a hardware-in-the-loop analysis framework for advanced ITS applications

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-04-08) Roe, Matthew Stephen

As Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) become more prevalent, there is a need for a system capable of the rigorous evaluation of new ITS strategies for a wide variety of applications. Pre-deployment testing and fine-tuning of the system, performance evaluation, and alternatives analysis are all potential benefits that could be gained through the evaluation of ITS. Simulation, an increasingly popular tool for transportation analysis, would seem an ideal solution to this problem as it allows for the consideration of many scenarios that may be improbable or impossible to observe in the field. Also, simulation provides a framework that allows for the application of rigorous analysis techniques to the output data, providing an accurate and statistically significant conclusion. The difficulty is that many ITS strategies are difficult or impossible to implement in a simulated environment. The rapid nature of technology development and the complicated nature of many ITS solutions are difficult to emulate in simulation models. Furthermore, the emulation of a particular ITS solution is not guaranteed to provide the same result that the physical system would, were it subject to the same inputs. This study seeks to establish a framework for the analysis of advanced ITS applications through the use of Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (HILS), which provides a procedure for interfacing simulation models with real-world hardware to conduct analysis. This solution provides the benefits of both advanced ITS evaluation and simulation for powerful and accurate analysis. A framework is established that includes all the steps of the modeling process including construction, validation, calibration, and output analysis. This ensures that the process surrounding the HILS implementation is valid so that the results of the evaluation are accurate and defendable. Finally, a case study of the application of the developed framework to the evaluation, a real-world implementation of an advanced ITS application (SCATS in this case) is considered. The effectiveness of the framework in creating and evaluating a corridor using a simulation model wed to real-world hardware is shown. The results of the analysis show the power of this method when correctly applied and demonstrate where further analysis could expand upon the proposed procedure.
Equity issues in HOV-to-HOT conversion on I-85 North in Atlanta

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-04-08) Zuyeva, Lyubov I.

This paper examines the issues of equity, as applicable to the HOV-to-HOT conversion project planned for the I-85 North corridor in the Metropolitan Atlanta Region. A review of literature is undertaken to describe the typology of transportation equity issues within the wider context of environmental justice, and to highlight socio-economic factors and local and national transportation funding factors that influence people's travel choices and their mobility and accessibility options. Demographic data on the I-85 corridor peak period commuters in Metropolitan Atlanta is analyzed, in addition to results of focus groups polling current Metropolitan Atlanta interstate commuters on the topic of managed lanes during 2008. The thesis makes a conclusion that a final decision about the equity impact of the I-85 HOV-to-HOT conversion is likely not possible without undertaking a Metropolitan area-wide analysis. Some of the equity findings that emerge indicate that there are no significant income differences between the the HOV lane users and general purpose lane I-85 commuters; that there are differences between median incomes of block groups represented by current I-85 commuters (both HOV lane users and general purpose lane users) and median incomes of block groups typical for the base geography; and that investing in Xpress bus service improvements would primarily serve those households with more vehicles than drivers, unless improvements to reverse commute options and feeder bus networks are made. The focus group findings suggest that current interstate highway users in Metropolitan Atlanta, originating in the suburbs, are generally accepting of the HOT concept and recognize the value of travel time savings.
Impact of the location of new schools on transportation infrastructure and finance

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-02-19) Wagner, James Bartley

Public school planning and land use planning have become increasingly separated fields over the last 35 years. This results in misaligned goals when school districts do not plan facilities that support a community's land use planning goals. The result is a disjointed growth pattern where new schools are built on the urban fringe and act as a magnet for new development that often goes against desired development patterns. Previous research on school locations and development patterns has focused on institutional barriers to cooperation and strategies to help local governments cooperate better with local land use planners. To date, there has been no significant research that attempts to quantify the relationship between school location and development patterns and the transportation infrastructure necessary to serve new development. This research shows that there is a relationship between school location and new development. Four counties in Georgia were selected as case studies and analyzed with a Geographic Information System (GIS) to determine the significance of the link between these activities. Counties were selected based on their character (urban, suburban, exurban, rural) and analyzed separately. An elementary school and high school were analyzed for each county. In addition, interviews with school facility planners were conducted to further define what institutional barriers prevent cooperation among local land use planners and school planners. It was found that there is a wide range of levels of cooperation between school planners and local planners. Some school districts had a formalized communication process with local planners, some had an ad-hoc communication process, and others had no process at all. Recommendations are made on ways to improve the cooperation between these two professional fields. This thesis also examines the link between education and transportation capital funding. Georgia lawmakers are struggling to determine what type of capital funding mechanism would be appropriate for new transportation projects, but these new projects may negatively impact educational funding, which is currently based on a sales tax.
Newton County Land Conservation Plan

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009) Allen, Molly ; Crewe, Sarahjoy ; D'Onofrio, David ; Fowler, Aaron ; Hagan, Elizabeth ; Hight, Elizabeth ; Lang, Marisa ; Lytle, Andrea ; Smart, Brian ; Tester, Mathew

Newton County has embarked on an innovative long-term planning process initiated by the Leadership Collaborative and facilitated through The Center for Community Preservation and Planning (The Center). This Land Conservation Plan is an integral part of this bigger picture process and has been facilitated by the Georgia Conservancy’s Blueprints for Successful Communities initiative.
Chattanooga Downtown Westside 2009

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009) Dagenhart, Richard ; Yang, Perry Pei-Ju ; Cambeul, David ; Duong, Binh ; Hussy, Heather ; Kovacheva, Maria ; Thorn, Robert

An urban design studio focused on the Westside of Downtown Chattanooga. sponsored by the City of Chattanooga. The studio project had four priorities for which urban design was to provide a framework for the Westside. First was to examine alternative to the grade separated Highway 27 that divides the Westside from Downtown. Second was stormwater management with the aim of reducing or eliminating combined sewer overflows from the Westside into the Tennessee River. Third was to extend the Riverfront Park to and along the River on the Westside, incorporating existing industry and weaving a future mixed-use industrial zone. Fourth, and finally, to explore options for future development of housing and commercial projects anticipating the impact - aesthetic and infrastructural - of the new riverfront park and extensive green infrastructure to define an expanded public domain.