Browsing Graduate Capstone Projects by Title
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Advancing Regional Resilience in the Wake of War: A Proposed Resilience Framework for the Republic of Artsakh
(2021)The newly established Republic of Artsakh faces many risks and lacks any established comprehensive planning frameworks. The history of the Armenians has always been a tumultuous one, filled with war, foreign occupation, ... -
Airbnb regulation in Washington DC, who will it serve?
(Georgetown University, 2015)We face radically new and evolving markets in the digital age—new forms of production and consumption. The rise of this fast emerging shared economy needs to be met with new forms of regulation. To explore and illustrate ... -
The Application of a Just City Framework in Ivy City
(Georgetown University, 2017)In this paper, I seek to define justice within the context of urban planning, to understand the limitations of community participation as a key element in planning, and to apply a theoretical just city framework to a ... -
Beyond Blight in Baltimore: Investing in Failed Housing Markets
(2020)This paper asks why blight continues to plague Baltimore and what can be done about it. Despite decades of innovative strategies to combat vacant property, legacy industrial cities like Baltimore have not managed to ... -
Beyond Transit-Oriented Development: Exploring Solutions for Inclusive Communities in Loudoun County, Virginia
(Georgetown University, 2016)The challenge to meet affordable housing needs is a problem for many units of local government. This paper focuses on an approach to increase affordable housing in a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and mixed-use development ... -
Broadband Infrastructure to Enable Smart Cities: Emerging Strategies and Partnership Models
(Georgetown University, 2017)As advances in digital technology largely driven by the private sector continue to reshape society in a rapidly urbanizing world, it has become an economic, social, and environmental necessity for local municipal authorities ... -
The City as a Generator of Public Value: An Analysis of Taxable Value per Acre and Public Infrastructure Investment in Jacksonville, Florida
(2019)Cities and towns across the US are collectively facing over $1 trillion in deferred infrastructure maintenance. A staggering deficit that is directly attributable to the legacy of suburban development patterns, which require ... -
Cycling Infrastructure in Washington, DC: Intersection Risk Analysis and Safety Improvements
(Georgetown University, 2020)Mayors around the world have set goals for their cities toward the Vision Zero movement to reduce traffic fatalities to zero, but many cities lack the tools and practices to make meaningful progress toward those goals. ... -
Deafspace in Urban Planning: A Framework for Equity and Inclusion in Washington DC
(Georgetown University, 2019)It is becoming increasingly important for resiliency in rapidly transforming cities that urban planning be inclusive of marginalized communities. The Deaf and signing community represents one example of a historically ... -
Evaluating Walkability in Fayetteville, Arkansas: Impacts of Attitudinal Preferences and Urban Form on Walking Trip Counts and Body Mass Index Scores
(Georgetown University, 2019-05-10)Neighborhood form impacts health outcomes. Urban planning and public health researchers have partnered to understand the built and social variables associated with healthy places and populations. The dominant influence ... -
Fast Cars and Empty Spaces: Identifying Barriers to Urban Vitality on Highway-Adjacent Corridors in Baltimore, Maryland
(Georgetown University, 2019)Through-traffic to and from a highway is a burden to economic vitality on urban corridors, but it is not an impenetrable barrier. In this paper, I investigate the ways in which the land use patterns that have arisen from ... -
Finding the Right Message: A Critical Analysis of Affordable Housing Communication Techniques as a Planning Tool
(Georgetown University, 2016)This thesis attempts to move the practice of affordable housing messaging into a tool that can used by advocates when embarking on a legislative strategy. The idea of whether someone is “worthy” or “unworthy” of affordable ... -
Harnessing the Cultural Production of Bahareque in Manizales Colombia: Community-based Practices as the Foundation of Community Development Strategies
(Georgetown University, 2021)This project analyzes the use of bahareque, a vernacular building construction practice in the UNESCO-designated region known as the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (CCLC). Because of the affordability of bahareque, ... -
If You Zone It, Will They Come? Recommendations for the Production of Accessory Apartments in the District of Columbia
(Georgetown University, 2016)In January, 2016, the District of Columbia Zoning Commission adopted a new zoning code. In addition to simplifying the code and adapting it to DC’s current context, the Zoning Regulations of 2016 include significant policy ... -
Informal Settlements as Urban Laboratories for Renewable Energy: Perfecting Biogas Production in Bogota's Ciudad Bolivar
(Georgetown University, 2018)Informal settlements are complex and often overlooked areas of the urban environment. They are initially settled as a short-term solution to housing for its residents, but they often have long-lasting consequences to the ... -
Location Intelligence: The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Arboviral Surveillance and Mitigation in Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown University, 2018)In response to the Zika outbreak in the Americas, Washington, D.C. substantially increased mosquito monitoring activities. Facilitating a place-based characterization of the urban environment where disease-carrying vectors ... -
Marginalizing Somali Immigrant Communities in Minneapolis: Tracing the Steps of Economic Displacement in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood
(2018)In this paper, I argue that the Somali-American immigrant population in Minneapolis is subject to the processes of gentrification. As an economically and culturally marginalized population, Somali-American immigrants have ... -
Maximizing Community-Based Development Outcomes: The Case of Raleigh's Downtown South Proposal
(Georgetown University, 2019)This paper explores a proposed large mixed-use development project in Raleigh, North Carolina as a case study to identify potential linkages between privately conceived urban development, community benefits, and the ... -
A Micro-mobile Streetscape in the Age of Vision Zero: An Action Plan for Downtown Washington, D.C.
(2019)In the first nine months of 2019 alone, Washington, D.C. riders took 4.5 million micromobility trips, nearly 6% of the total number of trips that occurred across the United States the year prior.1 As the micromobility ... -
A Mixed-Use and Walkable Bogotá: A Transit-Oriented Strategy for the City’s First Fixed-Rail Public Transit Corridor
(Georgetown University, 2018)This project explores the creation of an urban planning framework to improve land use near metro stations in Bogotá. This framework will make the new proposed metro stations in Bogotá vibrant community places that attract ...
