51 51 2010 DCRP Master’s Project and Ph.D. Dissertation Titles
JUSTIN LUCK
Improving Land Development Planning in Asheboro, N.C. ROBIN MICHLER
Vehicular Cycling Advocacy: A Case Study of Chapel Hill BENJAMIN OWEN
Household Vehicle Ownership and Fuel Consumption in Conventional and Neotraditional Suburban Neighborhoods
MELISSA PEARCE
Managing Risk Through Community Engagement BROOKS PEARSON
Vacant Property Registration Programs: A New Approach to Managing the Foreclosure Crisis in North Carolina
CHRISTY RAULLI
Succession Planning in A Closely Held Firm: Establishing an Employee Stock Ownership Plan
SARA REYNOLDS
Farm Preservation: Conservation Options for Sugar Cove Farm
MICHAEL RODGERS
Bridging the Gap Methods to Improving Financial Feasibility in Historic Rehabilitation Projects
SARA SATINSKY
Homeownership and Financial Security of Chatham Habitat for Humanity Partner Families
HEATHER SCHROEDER
Barriers to Small Business Development: Chapel Hill, N.C. CHRISTA WAGNER
Rural Economic Development in the Creative Economy: A Case Study of the STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise in Montgomery County, N.C.
JOSHUA WEILAND
The Image of Prague: An Analysis of Maps Developed From Space Syntax, Guidebooks, and Sketch Mapping,
Both Cross Sectional and Longitudinal CHARLES WILLIAMS
The Renter Equity Property Management Model: Helping Renters and Owners to Build Assets, Create Community and Preserve Property
MEGAN WOOLEY
Sowing the Seeds of a Vibrant Community
ASHLEY YINGLING
An Assessment of the Green Economy in the Upper Coastal Plain Region of North Carolina
ELISE FRANCIS
Small City Revitalization: A Comparative Analysis of Cities in the North Carolina Main Streets Program
ABBY GARRISON
Why Don’t More People Shop Downtown? An Analysis of Retailers, Shoppers, and City Policy
ERIN GILLESPIE
The Spencer’s Inc. Mill Redevelopment Opportunity and its Potential Role in Meeting the Housing Needs of Mount Airy and Surry County
LORA GRECO
Exploring the Relationship Between Ciclorrutas and Land
Values in Bogota, Colombia
JAMAAL GREEN
All for One and One for All: Regional Collaboration in Industrial Recruitment Strategies, A Comparative Case Study
KATHERINE HEBERT
Keeping it Green: A Study of Open Space Conservation Efforts in the Triangle
BENJAMIN HOUCK
Innovation in Green Building: A Case Study of the General Contractor at Greenbridge
MEGAN JOHNSON
Marketing Chatham: Strategies and Recommendations to Support a Strategic Marketing Plan
DARIA KHRAMTSOVA
Financial Analysis of Family Oriented Development in San Diego, C.A.
JOHN KILLEEN
Restructuring the Southside for Innovation: Technology, Education, and Holistic Job Growth in Danville, Virginia
SETH LAJEUNESSE
Mindfulness, Time Affluence, and Affective Appraisals of
the Journey to Work: An Exploration of Relationships
JACOB LARRIMORE
Green Building in North Carolina: Testing an Evaluative Framework to Assess State Competitiveness
MONICA LEAP
Art-In-Transit Bus Wrap Programs: Lessons Learned From Asheville, N.C.; Shreveport, L.A.; St. Louis, M.O. LYLE LEITELT
Developing a Solar Energy Potential Map for Chapel Hill, N.C.
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have broad consequences if a rupture occurs. In this dissertation, Osland evaluated the implications of land-use planning for reducing risk to transmission pipeline hazards in North Carolina via three investigations. Collectively, the results highlight the potential of land-use planning to keep people and development from encroaching on pipeline hazards. While this study indicates that planners in many areas address pipeline hazards, it also illustrates how changes to local practices can further reduce risks to human health, homeland security, and the environment.
CHRISTINE E. BOYLE
The Changing Nature of Irrigation in Northern China: Assessing the Impacts of Fiscal Decentralization on
Village-Level Irrigation Development
Under the direction of Dr. Yan Song
In recent decades, debate over how to promote water conservation in irrigation has increased as water has become scarcer and competition for water has increased. The irrigation debate is particularly salient as agricultural water use is directly tied to food production and rural livelihoods in many of the world’s poorest communities. Despite widespread reforms, China’s record for increasing irrigation-related water conservation and alleviating poverty, without disrupting agricultural production, remains poor. This dissertation examines local irrigation infrastructure provision processes to better understand
how China’s decentralized fiscal structure impacts
regional irrigation development distribution and on-the- ground irrigation system performance.
2010 Ph.D. Dissertation Titles and Brief Descriptions
MICHAEL W. CREED
Planning, Problem Solving, and Kirton’s A-I Theory Within an Organizational Framework
Under the direction of Dr. Emil E. Malizia
Planners must be technically competent in many disparate facets of contemporary urban society. And, since planners cannot be experts in all things, they must be skilled in problem-solving processes involving people with widely varying motives, knowledge, and personalities. This research investigates problem-solving processes in small groups solving a non-trivial and non- value-laden problem under tight constraints. A group
of 88 volunteers from a multi-office engineering firm
participated in one of 12 trials of the Hollow-Square: A Communications Experiment. Findings were compared with prior research from two major university studies using ad hoc volunteers. Cognitive style extremes and
cognitive gaps were identified as causal impediments to
successful small group problem solving.
ANNA OSLAND
An Analysis of Land Use Planning and Equity Issues Surrounding Hazardous Liquid and Natural Gas
Transmission Pipelines in North Carolina
Under the direction of Dr. Daniel Rodriguez
Hazardous liquid and natural gas transmission pipelines have received limited attention by planning scholars even though local development decisions can