Browsing by Subject "Urban"

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    Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)
    (2016-09-26) Whalen, Emily
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    Challenging the land use planning status quo in the Austin metro area
    (2023-04-19) Smith, Kayla Michele; Wegmann, Jake
    This report explores potential urban land use planning implications of changes both accelerated and brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic that began in March of 2020. Analysis of current trends is first grounded by a literature review that examines the origins of urban systems and considers methodologies for conducting and evaluating land use planning and implementation efforts. The three notable trends studied are: increased remote and hybrid working arrangements, housing supply shortages and affordability challenges, and acknowledgement of disparate urban experiences based on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Discussion of the disruptive potential of these trends aims to move the land use planning field beyond its reactive status quo toward consideration of how cities and metro areas can strategically position themselves to adapt and thrive in the face of changing futures. A case study of the Austin Metro Area examines specific manifestations of these trends and proposes challenges to the current land use planning approach in the region and its principal city. Planning and regulation of land use must be more flexible in the face of uncertainty, more cognizant of historical planning interventions and the disparate impacts of exclusionary policies, and more responsive to changing patterns of socioeconomic geographic distribution related to affordability, mobility, and economic opportunity for both households and the region. Additionally, future land use planning must center the needs of diverse types of people and their use patterns rather than seeking to achieve “ideal” urban forms derived from often outdated and worker-focused assumptions about how people interact with the built environment. To support this approach, planners require better means of collecting and monitoring real-time data about population characteristics, economic activity, mobility, and the real estate market, particularly in a quickly evolving urban system like the Austin Metro Area
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    Climate impacts and food systems planning : Austin Farms’ resilience to heat and drought
    (2023-08-15) Patracuolla, Gabrielle Rose; Lieberknecht, Katherine E.; Paterson, Robert G.
    The innate human connection to nature is crucial to understanding how people interact with their food systems in the urban context. Increasing heat and drought will continue to affect the production and growth of agriculture in Austin, Texas as well as people’s ability to connect to the food system. Farmers in Austin are worried about increased impacts on production, distribution and income. Future projections show increases in heat and drought causing concern for the future of food production in the region. The City of Austin and other entities can help to create stability in an increasingly unstable climate.
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    Do Millennials prefer urban living? : evidence from census migration flows in U.S. megaregions and the State of Texas
    (2021-07-24) Su, Ziyue, M.S. in Community and Regional Planning; Zhang, Ming, 1963 April 22-; Jiao, Junfeng
    This report presents a spatial study of Millennials’ migration flow, looking for Millennials’ living preference within the thirteen megaregions in the United States. It also studies the migration flow in the State of Texas and focuses on the Texas Triangle megaregion. The report studies the internal migration flows in each U.S. megaregion and within the Texas State. The migration of cross-state or cross-nation is not considered here. The analysis utilizes accessible ACS 2011-2015 County-to-County Migration Flow dataset to reveal Millennials’ living preference, or their migration patterns, within thirteen megaregions in the United States and the Texas State.
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    Entrepreneurial city : race, the environment, and growth in Austin, Texas, 1945-2011
    (2011-12) Busch, Andrew M., active 2011; Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949-
    The primary concern of this dissertation is to give historical perspective to the idea of the creative city and the creative, or "new," "knowledge," or "postindustrial" economy that has produced this new form of urban space. Austin, Texas, one of the developed world's premiere creative cities, is used as a test case. Like many urban scholars, I focus on the manifestation of the city as a unique material expression of the capitalist order, and also on the city as a symbolic discourse that has helped to generate its material conditions, including consistent socioeconomic unevenness. In broad outline I am interested in the forces of capitalism that cause cities and regions to grow. I begin with a basic question asked by geographer Allen J. Scott: "How do competitive advantages (including capacities for creativity) of cities emerge, and how might they be enhanced by public action?" In the case of Austin, I argue that the city's competitive advantage was engendered by an ethos that valued free market competition and a focus on the dual economic engines of technology and leisure which city and university leaders identified during World War Two. Austin's economic ideology, which consciously eschewed fordist modes of production in favor of knowledge-based growth associated with the University of Texas, was poised to blossom when macroeconomic ruptures forced massive restructuring associated with globalization during and after the 1970s. The city's inherent advantage as a site of surplus knowledge production for Texas and the Southwest created a highly paid, educated labor market that business people and politicians viewed as the core element of a non-industrial city. Even before the 1970s Austin was well on its way to economic growth through technological accumulation and modes of production that took advantage of skilled labor markets. The creative city thus has a history that must be understood before policy is adopted based on non-transferable conditions of growth.
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    Everyday Stalinism, by Sheila Fitzpatrick (2000)
    (2014-12-08) Gray, Travis
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    From the countryside and city to the edges and interstices : places and spaces of the quotidien in contemporary French film and literature
    (2013-05) Jones, Claire Catherine; Wettlaufer, Alexandra
    This dissertation examines the use of the quotidien (the everyday) in contemporary French film and literature to understand its relationship with notions of place and space. Defined as the paradoxical process of how one repeatedly constructs each day "anew" on a routine basis, the quotidien in the texts of my analysis is not static, but rather a means for articulating changes in French communities and ways of life, while further reflecting ongoing changes to attitudes, politics, and identity. I advance current readings of the quotidien by viewing it as both descriptive, a recurring manifestation of change, as well as transformative, able to effect change. I argue that, in these depictions, the quotidien effectively erodes traditional spatial categories to create and reveal new and less stable versions. Specifically, places lose their real and symbolic sway to indeterminate spaces in which meaning is uncertain, in flux, or non-existent. My dissertation is novel for its interest in tracing the quotidien across spatial categories, so that its chapters move from the more "stable" categories of the rural and the urban to those in more obvious flux, edges and interstices. Chapter 1 studies the depicted quotidiens of rural France in Agnès Varda's film, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000), and Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougare's film series, Profils paysans (2000-2008). Chapter 2 investigates the quotidiens of urban centers in Cédric Klapisch's film, Chacun cherche son chat (1996), Patrick Modiano's novel, Dora Bruder (1997), and Laurent Cantet's film, Entre les murs (2008). Chapter 3 examines everyday France at the periphery of Paris in Gérard Gavarry's novel, Hop là! Un deux trois (2001). The Conclusion addresses the emergence of a new space, the interstitial, in which its dwellers float, move, or exist between places on a daily basis, such as a commute to work. I analyze Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas's short film, Loin du 16ème (2006), Abdellatif Kechiche's film, La Graine et le mulet (2007), and Alain-Paul Mallard's film, L'Origine de la tendresse (1999). These mini-ethnographies of French society reveal a France grappling with issues related to globalization, shifting populations, the relative newness of the European Union, and consequently, identity. Who is French, and where does "authentic France" lie?
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    Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism
    (2011-02-01) Brands, H. W.
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    Great Books on Urban Foodways
    (2012-12-01) Neuberger, Joan
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    History in Motion: The New Archive (No. 4)
    (2014-02-13) Wiencek, Henry
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