Browsing GSD Scholarly Articles by Title
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The pattern of foreign property investment in Vietnam: the apartment market in Ho Chi Minh City
(Elsevier, 2013)As globalization proceeds, transnational property development is increasing. Especially in emerging markets, foreign developers’ influence in changing the local landscape is becoming significant. In this research, the ... -
Patterns of Obesogenic Neighborhood Features and Adolescent Weight
(Elsevier BV, 2012)Background Few studies have addressed the potential influence of neighborhood characteristics on adolescent obesity risk, and findings have been inconsistent. Purpose Identify patterns among neighborhood food, physical ... -
Projecting Heat-Related Mortality Impacts Under a Changing Climate in the New York City Region
(American Public Health Association, 2007)Objectives. We sought to project future impacts of climate change on summer heat-related premature deaths in the New York City metropolitan region. Methods. Current and future climates were simulated over the northeastern ... -
A Proposed Map of a Geodesign Research Agenda: Eleven Key Questions in an Eight-pole Space
(Wichmann-Verlag, 2015)The development of a robust and credible geodesign discipline will depend equally upon an ever-growing inventory of excellent real-world examples of projects embodying geodesign principles, and upon the development and ... -
Recombinant Urbanization: Agrarian–urban Landed Property and Uneven Development in India
(Wiley, 2019-05-24)This article develops the concept of recombinant urbanization to show how agrarian landed property and land‐based caste/class relations shape the production of post‐liberalization urban real estate markets in India. I focus ... -
Redesigning China’s superblock neighbourhoods: policies, opportunities and challenges
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)In February 2016, China’s State Council released a set of guidelines representing a change in the country’s approach toward neighbourhood design: to move away from superblock neighbourhoods and create a finer network of ... -
The Relationship of Area-Level Sociodemographic Characteristics, Household Composition and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Status on Walking Behavior Among Adults
(Elsevier BV, 2013)Understanding the contextual factors associated with why adults walk is important for those interested in increasing walking as a mode of transportation and leisure. This paper investigates the relationships between ... -
Reliability Testing of the Pedestrian and Bicycling Survey (PABS) Method
(Human Kinetics, 2012)Background: The Pedestrian and Bicycling Survey (PABS) is a questionnaire designed to be economical and straightforward to administer so that it can be used by local governments interested in measuring the amount and ... -
Responses of 73 Ecologists Important in Developing the Foundations of Ecology: Summary of a 1952–59 and 1972 Survey
(Wiley, 2021-11-03)Many of the early leading ecologists, especially Americans, were surveyed (primarily between 1952 and 1959) to learn what (1) initially inspired an ecological interest, (2) stimulated a major career direction in ecology, ... -
Revitalizando Ciudades: MejorandoViviendas y Barrios desde la Cuadra a la Metrópolis
(Harvard University Graduate School of Design., 2016)Revitalizando Ciudades: Mejorando viviendas y barrios desde la cuadra a la metrópolis, enfatiza ejemplos internacionales y mexicanos e identifica políticas, programas y estrategias de planeación para implementar las políticas ... -
Revitalizing Places: Improving Housing and Neighborhoods from Block to Metropolis.
(Harvard University Graduate School of Design., 2016)Revitalizing Places emphasizes international and Mexican experiences and identifies potential policies, programs, planning approaches, and tools to help implement the far-reaching 2012 Mexican housing and urban development ... -
Seeing Mumbai Through Its Hinterland: Entangled Agrarian-Urban Land Markets in Regional Mumbai
(2018-03)The “money in the city, votes in the countryside” dynamic meant that in the past, agrarian propertied classes wielded enough power to draw capital and resources from cities into the rural hinterland. However, as cities ... -
Sensitivity of Present and Future Surface Temperatures to Precipitation Characteristics
(Inter-Research Science Center, 2004)A model simulation study shows that different diurnal cycles of precipitation are consistent with radically different present and future climate characteristics. In projected future climate scenarios, divergence in the ... -
Should big cities grow? Scenario-based cellular automata urban growth modeling and policy applications
(Elsevier BV, 2016)The formation of ‘Urban Networks’ has become a wide-spread phenomenon around the world. In the study of metropolitan regions, there are competing or diverging views about management and control of environmental and land-use ... -
Simple, Inexpensive Approach to Sampling for Pedestrian and Bicycle Surveys
(Transportation Research Board, 2012)Many transportation planners undertake local surveys for a better understanding of the levels of walking and cycling of residents in their city or town. This paper explores the challenges of designing a robust sampling ... -
Simulated Effects of Climate Change on Summertime Nitrogen Deposition in the Eastern US
(Elsevier BV, 2008)It is anticipated that climate change may impact regional-scale air quality and atmospheric deposition in the coming decades. To simulate the effects of climate change on nitrogen (N) deposition across numerous watersheds ...