Journal of Urban Planning and Development: Recent submissions
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Could Impact Fees Be Used for CO2 Mitigation?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Development impact fees are an effective way for communities to recoup some of the costs of growth. Typically, they have been used to raise revenues to help pay for new capital spending. In this paper, the possibility of ... -
Evaluating Unplanned Stand-Alone Transportation Projects: Linking Incremental and Comprehensive Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Transportation agencies may review proposed projects that were not examined as part of the long range planning process. Typically, these projects require an immediate response and lack detailed data. This paper describes ... -
Assessing the Impact of Land Use/Land Cover on Urban Heat Island Pattern in Nanjing City, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Land use/land cover (LULC) change with urbanization affects urban heat island (UHI). We selected the Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper images for year 2005 to retrieve land surface temperature (LST) and LULC types and assess ... -
Urban Road Pricing: Modeling Public Acceptance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Acceptability is considered the most important barrier in establishing a congestion pricing scheme. Using data from an extensive questionnaire survey conducted in the central area of Athens, Greece, in 2008, this paper ... -
New Metro System as a Catalyst for Successful Planning Interventions in Athens
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)The city of Athens is transforming into a multicenter model that is directly affected by the development of the new metro system. An entire network of integrated/correlated factors affecting the urban form has contributed ... -
Potential Application of Land Readjustment Method in Urban Renewal: Analysis for Turkey
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)It is important to find a tool to be found that is capable of fulfilling specific functions (such as land assembly, self-finance, the protection of social capital, with results obtainable within a certain time) in approaches ... -
Prioritizing Sustainability Criteria in Urban Planning Processes: Methodology Application
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Since the beginning of the sustainability debate approximately 20 years ago, all parties involved in the urban planning process have been expected to devise sustainable solutions to meet the challenges of the 21st century. ... -
Quality of Life, Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, and Sustainable Development: Strategically Expanding Choice
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)As sustainable development becomes a more important objective in civil infrastructure planning and policymaking, quality of life (QOL) is an increasingly important measure to understand, characterize, and apply effectively ... -
Impacts of Transportation External Cost Pricing and Transit Fare Reductions on Household Mode/Route Choices and Environmental Improvements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)This study explores how transportation external cost pricing and transit fare reductions impact household mode/route choices and environmental improvements in a metropolitan area. A household mode/route choice model and a ... -
Urban Spatial Decision Support System for Municipal Solid Waste Management of Nagpur Urban Area Using High-Resolution Satellite Data and Geographic Information System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Solid waste generation is undoubtedly related to anthropogenic activities and culture. The management of solid waste becomes more challenging in densely populated heterogeneous cultures in developing countries. Proper ... -
Pollution Reduction in Receivers: Storm-Water Tanks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Urban runoff discharges in receiving water are a significant source of pollution. Storm-water tanks are one of the most effective facilities used for reducing the impact of first-flush pollution. Nevertheless, because the ... -
Turkish Land Readjustment: Good Practice in Urban Development
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Urban populations in Turkey have been growing steadily since the 1950s. As such, adequately supplying development parcels for the growing population is one of the most important responsibilities of the local governments, ... -
Perception Studies of Vertical Greenery Systems in Singapore
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The objective is to discover the current perception of vertical greenery systems and barriers to their widespread adoption in Singapore. It can be concluded that the energy saving property of vertical greenery systems make ... -
Quantitative Delimitation of Metropolitan Areas Based on a Synthetic Method: Case Study in the Lanzhou Metropolitan Area
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Contemporary urbanization, urban regionalization and modernization, and the globalized economy have resulted in the formation of various urban complexes that have attracted the attention of urban geographers, sociologists, ... -
Intrametropolitan Determinants of Foreign Investment Firms in Istanbul
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)In the process of economic transformation there has been considerable academic interest in the understanding of the location behavior of foreign direct investment (FDI) firms. While studies on FDI firm location have mainly ... -
Promoting Sustainability through Transportation Infrastructure? Innovation and Inertia in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)City engineers and planners have a critical role to play in the advancement of sustainable transportation systems at the local level. Practices that promote water quality and/or public health through transportation ... -
Stated Preference Approach for Valuation of Travel Time Displayed as Traffic Information on a VMS Board
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)A stated preference (SP) approach is explored for valuation of travel time displayed as traffic information on a variable message sign (VMS) board. Two types of traffic information (called as TI-I and TI-II) are investigated ... -
Health Impacts of Urban Development and Transportation Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Urban transportation planning and land-use policies play a pivotal role in every society and are the subjects of interest in many academic fields. Creating a tool that measures the benefits and costs associated with the ... -
Measuring Transfer Efficiency of Urban Public Transportation Terminals by Data Envelopment Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The importance of a transportation terminal’s transfer efficiency to passengers is well known. However, it is still a problem of how to combine the various indicators into a single indicator that can be used to quickly ... -
Evaluation of 10-Year Temperature Differences between Urban and Rural Areas of a Well-Planned, Unindustrialized, and Medium-Sized Turkish Town, Erzincan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The aim of this study was to show that the effect of a city with favorable characteristics for landscape and urban planning on urban versus rural temperature differences is lower by determining the distribution of daily ...