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Item Austin and Its Future: The Challenge of Growth, PRP 3(LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1973) Haynes, Kingsley E.; Hazleton, Jared E.; Poston, Dudley L.Item Austin’s Great Streets: Success and Failure on Second Street(2023-05) Kim, DonghyunGreat streets make great cities. This holds especially true in the United States, where public space and life in American cities are typically relegated to the streets in the relative absence of plazas, squares, and parks. As cities began to acknowledge how car-centric life and low-density sprawl dismantled the life of its downtowns, they sought to employ urban planning and design values for revitalization. Austin, Texas is a notably rapid-growing American city which also began to reimagine its downtown through the lens of urban planning and design, especially at the turn of the millennium. Decades of visionary planning led to the adoption of the city’s first modern, comprehensive street design initiative—the Great Streets Program. Along with a renewed focus on street vitality, Austin engaged in several redevelopment efforts across the city. Of these, the Second Street Retail District was a flagship downtown revitalization project which sought to embody the city’s new urban planning and design values. Now, a decade after the completion of the Retail District redevelopment project, this thesis examines the historic circumstance of Austin’s urban environment and the evaluates the ways Second Street succeeded and failed in its goals regarding economic revitalization, pedestrian prioritization, and urban character. The thesis begins with a recounting of key urban planning decisions in Austin’s history, describes the Great Streets program and Retail District project in detail, then analyzes the project and concludes with key findings.Item Eastside Histories: Connecting Urban Food Sovereignty to Environmental Racism and City Planning in Austin, Texas(2020) Holdeman, Sarah; Walenta, JaymeI contextualize the goals of the global food sovereignty movement in urban Austn, Texas by investigating the ways that city planning has impacted food sovereignty historically. Informed by this history, I onclude with a list of recommendations for centering racial equity and food overeignty in future land development codes.Item Environmental geology of the Austin area : an aid to urban planning(Bureau of Economic Geology University of Texas at Austin, 1976) Garner, L. E.; Young, K. P.; Rodda, P. U.; Dawe, G. L.; Rogers, Margaret AnneScanned and georeferenced version of Garner, L.E. and Young, K.P., 1976, Environmental geology of the Austin area: an aid to urban planning: University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations RI-86, scale 1:62,500.Item Evaluating Descriptive and Predictive Spatial Models of Emergency Medical Services Demand During Extreme Heat Events in Austin, TX(2023) Mandalapu, Akhil; Jiao, JunfengExtreme heat events are becoming increasingly common. With extreme heat exposure often necessitating prompt emergency medical service (EMS) response, the situation is critical as a rapid response is necessary to prevent severe disability or death. However, limited EMS capacity requires reallocation of resources to meet the increased demand for EMS. Although prior literature suggests a slight positive association between heat and EMS demand, studies have not investigated the spatial patterns of EMS demand during extreme heat. This study compares predictive models of EMS demand during extreme heat events across space. First, an unsupervised clustering approach was utilized to characterize EMS demand spatially to identify clusters with similar EMS demand and heat vulnerability characteristics. Finally, linear regression and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models were evaluated in predicting the spatial demand of EMS.Item FitCity|SA - A Health-Based Housing Model for San Antonio, TX(2017) Moore, DanaItem Identity Crisis: The Post-WWII Reconstruction of the City of London(2017-03) Dolan, AlexandraItem Land [fill] the gap(2012-12) Liu, Siqi; Fajkus, MatthewHow can we bridge the gap between the lack of construction land and the sustained rapid urban population growth in China? This is a social problem China need to solve in the near future. ‘Land [Fill] The Gap’ is an investigation of the possibility of utilizing existing landfills in Beijing for urban construction in order to accommodate inhabitants, remove landfills and generate electricity from trash.Item People, land, & water: stories of metropolitan growth(Texas Metro Observatory, 2019-09) Lieberknecht, Katherine; Oden, Michael; Leite, Fernanda; Bixler, Patrick; Felkner, Juliana; Richter, Stephen; Wu, SarahTMO has brought together several data sets into our first report on metropolitan Texas, People, Land, and Water: Stories of Metropolitan Growth. In People, we analyze socio-demographic trends on diversity, education, poverty, and more, revealing several trends about the people of metropolitan Texas. In Land, the physical expansion of metros is analyzed against population growth, density, and imperviousness, finding that growth is both more efficient and increasingly intense. In Water, consumption patterns are examined by source and end-use, finding decreasing water use per capita; however, increasing population growth will outpace efficiency improvements.Item Planning Forum Volume 01(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 1995) Powell, LauraItem Planning Forum Volume 02(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 1996) Powell, LeilahItem Planning Forum Volume 03(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 1997) Walker, JimItem Planning Forum Volume 04 / 05(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 1999) Morales, TammyItem Planning Forum Volume 06(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 2000) Danenfelzer, DavidItem Planning Forum Volume 08(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 2002) Lane, K. Maria D.; Weston, Lisa M.Item Planning Forum Volume 09(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 2003) Weston, Lisa M.; Ferguson, TommiItem Planning Forum Volume 10(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 2004) Ferguson, Tommi; Otto, Seth S.Item Planning Forum Volume 11(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 2005) Otto, Seth S.Item Planning Forum Volume 12(The University of Texas School of Architecture, 2006) Bushman, Kate; Geruso, AprilItem Planning Forum Volume 13 / 14(University of Texas School of Architecture, 2009-05) Jaramillo, Catherine; Qi, Meng