CLASS OF 2020 MASTER’S PROJECTS

The White Problem in Planning

CLASS OF 2020 MASTER’S PROJECT TITLES

ALEX HALLOWAY Planning for Resiliency in Mississippi and Alabama’s Tornado-Prone “Dixie Alley”: A Case Study of Smithville, MS

ANNA PATTERSON Prioritizing Health Equity in Affordable Housing: A Neighborhood Analysis in the Asheville, NC Metropolitan Area

ASHLEY OWNBEY Assessing Forest Cover Outcomes: A Two-part Analysis of Development Outcomes in Huntersville, North Carolina

BEN BEROLZHEIMER Chapel Hill-Carrboro Freight Train Trail Feasibility Study

BLAKE CASHMORE Partnerships with Transportation Network Companies: A Case Study of First-Last Mile Innovations in Research Triangle Park

BRIAN GODFREY Community Fiber Broadband in North Carolina: A Comparative Analysis

CLAIRE HANSEN A Study of Perceptions: How Planning and Real Estate Students View Each Other

DANIEL WILLEMS Stormwater Utility Fees: A North Carolina Affordability Analysis

DAVE OLVERSON Redeveloping Parking Garages in a Future of Declining Parking Demand

FRANK MURACA Strengthening Affordable Housing In Urban Neighborhoods - The Role of North Carolina’s QAP in Shaping LIHTC Neighborhood Trends

FRANKIE ZITO An Application of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™: New Bern, NC

GUO ZHENG Resilience Building of Public Transportation System: A Proposal of an Indicator Framework

GWEN BARLOW North Carolina’s Hurricane Matthew CDBG-DR: Problems and Housing Programs

HEYNE KIM Automobile Scoot Over: Studying Urban Usage of Electric Scooters

JACOB LEVITAS Dorothea Dix Park Resilience Plan Framework

JOSEPH HOFFHEIMER Small-scale Manufacturing as a Community Redevelopment Tool: A Case Study Approach in Southwest High Point, North Carolina

KAITLIN HEATWOLE Transportation Disadvantage among Refugees in the Research Triangle of North Carolina

KELSEY PETERSON An Evaluation Framework for Climate Change Criteria in Local Ordinances: Lessons from the Research Triangle

LARA SELTZER Seaport Public Green: An Analysis of Use & Redesign

LIBBY SZUFLITA Evaluating Zonal Population Allocation in the Triangle Region to Improve Travel Modeling

MARIA DEWEES Developers’ Perspectives on Barriers to Missing Middle Housing Development

MATTHEW HUTTON Patterns of Industry Agglomeration in North Carolina: 1997 to 2017

NATALIE SWANSON Addressing the Problem of Evictions: State- and Municipal-Level Interventions

PAUL LIU The Effect of Retiree Migration on Regional Job Quality

RUIQI GUO Using a Safe System Approach to Identify High-risk Road Segments for Pedestrian-related Crashes in Chapel Hill

SIRI NALLAPARAJU Assessing Economic Impacts of Coastal Armoring in Boston, Massachusetts

TAMMY STERN Manufactured Housing Appreciation in New Hampshire

TORY GIBLER Curbside Management: Differing Innovative Curb Typologies in North Carolina Cities

WAYNE POWELL Airbnb Proliferation: An In-Depth Analysis

WILL LEIMENSTOLL The Fiscal Case for Walkability & Density: Mapping Value per Acre in Elon, NC

XIAODAN CHEN The Expansion of Urban Growth Boundary and Its Impact on Housing Affordability in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Oregon