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Public Access: A Driver for Preservation and Discovery of Datasets at a US Land-Grant Institution
(2019-08-24)
Public access to federally funded research data ensures preservation and discovery of datasets to promote translation of research evidence into meaningful outcomes. However, historical policy and concerns regarding making ...
Universal Basic Income and Inclusive Capitalism: Consequences for Sustainability
(MDPI, 2019-08-19)
Over the past forty years, income growth for the middle and lower classes has stagnated, while the economy (and with it, economic inequality) has grown significantly. Early automation, the decline of labor unions, changes ...
The Most Frequently Cited Topics in Urban Planning Scholarship
(MDPI, 2020-01-17)
Analyses of faculty citation activity usually focus on counts as a function of author characteristics, such as rank, gender, previous citation levels, and other factors influencing productivity and career path. Citation ...
Contemporary Spatial Publicness: Its New Characteristics and Democratic Possibilities
(MDPI, 2019-08-29)
In this study, we explore the recognition of publicness as understood by everyday users of public space. By analyzing news articles in South Korea selected from 1 January 2010, to 31 December 2018, this study examines a ...
Green Affordable Housing: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Zoning Incentives
(MDPI, 2019-11-08)
In the year 2017, about 89% of the total energy consumed in the US was produced using non-renewable energy sources, and about 43% of tenant households were cost burdened. Local governments are in a unique position to ...
The Value of Green Infrastructure on Vacant and Residential Land in Roanoke, Virginia
(MDPI, 2016-03-23)
Using the City of Roanoke, Virginia as a study site, this paper quantifies the forest structure, ecosystem services and values of vacant and residential land. Single family residential land had more trees (1,683,000) than ...
Planning for Resilience: Predicting Vegetated Roofs’ Runoff Reduction
(2014-06-09)
The rate of incorporation of vegetated systems into urban buildings is on the rise. These systems represent a psychological link to the natural world that city-dwellers have left behind and a physical filter to temper the ...
Exploring the Role of Cultural Boundary Spanners at Complex Boundaries in Global Virtual AEC Networks
(2015)
As the architecture, engineering and construction industry continues to globalize, project work is more often executed by geographically distributed, technologically mediated teams of knowledge specialists organized into ...
flEECe, an energy use and occupant behavior dataset for net-zero energy affordable senior residential buildings
(2019-11-26)
The behaviors of building occupants have continued to perplex scholars for years in our attempts to develop models for energy efficient housing. Building simulations, project delivery approaches, policies, and more have ...
Impact Evaluation of the Mozambique Rural Water Supply Activity
(Virginia Tech. School of Public and International Affairs; Stanford University, 2014-08)
In 2007, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a $506.9 million compact designed to reduce poverty in Mozambique by promoting sustainable economic growth. Among the planned investments was the installation of ...