The goal of this thesis is to assess and characterize the representativeness of sampled data that is voluntarily submitted through social media. The case study vehicle used is Twitter data associated with the 2012 ...

Recent studies about Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have shed a new light upon the movement of the island's giant statues ( moai) and platforms ( ahu) showing that they were purposeful projects created by small communities ...

The purpose of this project is three-fold: 1) to evaluate neighborhood walkability near middle schools in terms of infrastructure amenities that enhance pedestrian safety; 2) to evaluate walkability using streetscape ...

Food deserts are low-income, urban areas that have poor spatial access to supermarkets. To date, researchers have developed theories about the food desert phenomenon's public health and fiscal implications in the form ...

Because vulnerable populations have fewer resources and face barriers to effectively respond to a disaster, it is essential that emergency managers understand community demographics. The objective of this analysis is to ...

Walkability is an emerging and hot topic in the study of urban form. Many planning scholars and practitioners alike have already examined the many components of the land use-transportation connection and built environment-physical ...