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Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

# overview
Dr. Galen D. Newman is Professor and Head in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (LAUP) at Texas A&M University as well as the Youngblood Endowed Professor of Residential Land Development. He is also PI of the TAMU Superfund Center's Community Engagement Core (and Co-I for is Risk and Geospatial Sciences Core) as well as PI for the Community Engagement Core for the TAMU Center for Environmental Research. In LAUP, he formerly served as Associate Department Head, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program, Director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning Program, Associate Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, and Community Resilience Lead for the institute for Sustainable Communities. Dr. Newman's research interests include community resilience, urban regeneration, land use science, spatial analytics, and built environment performance. His work has been published in many high quality peer-reviewed outlets (over 130 journal articles) and has been funded through numerous internal and external funding sources including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences totaling over over 73 million dollars (70.51 million external and 2.55 million internal). He has also won many awards/recognitions for his research, including the Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), the Outstanding Educator Award from CELA, the Best Paper Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association, a Presidential Impact Fellow from Texas A&M University, a Most Influential Instructor from Design Intelligence, an Honor Award in Research from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in Professional Design, and is a Fellow of the ASLA. He has also led many efforts to provide service learning opportunities which have also won national and state awards including six American Society of Landscape Architects National Awards (ASLA), 30+ ASLA, Texas Chapter Awards, 2 American Planning Association, Texas Chapter Awards and being designated as a TAMU Service Learning Faculty Fellow, a TAMU Student Success Faculty Fellow, and TAMU Department Head Faculty Fellow, and a TAMU Presidential Impact Fellow. Other awards include the School of Architecture's Regan Interdisciplinary Research Award, the Association of Former Student's Award in Teaching at the College Level, and being named one of Design Intelligence's Most Admired Educators.

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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Health Disparities And Racial Or Ethnic Minority Health Research

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9 Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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4607 Graphics, Augmented Reality And Games

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Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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Auburn University - (Auburn, Alabama, United States)

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Auburn University - (Auburn, Alabama, United States)

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Clemson University - (Clemson, South Carolina, United States)

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Auburn University - (Auburn, Alabama, United States)

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Center for Teaching Excellence Certificate, Faculty Teaching Academy

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Student Success Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching Excellence Competitive Award

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Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award

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Breaking down the walls: challenges and lessons learned in interdisciplinary research

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Research Design in Urban Planning: A Student's Guide

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Global Strategies for Flood and Sea Level Rise Mitigation

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Applying and Integrating Urban Contamination Factors into Community Garden Siting

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Using neighborhood characteristics to predict vacancy types: Comparing multi-scale conditions surrounding existing vacant lots.

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Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Statistical Area, League City, TX

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Artificial intelligence in urban science: why does it matter?

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Smarter Shrinkage: a Neighborhood-Scaled Rightsizing Strategy Based on Land Use Dynamics

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Application of Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry for Compositional Characterization and Fingerprinting of a Library of Diverse Crude Oil Samples.

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Contemplating Reparations of Indigenous Peoples

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Social Capital Theory and Quantitative Approaches in Measurements: Disaster Literature Focus.

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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How Plans Prepare for Future Uncertainty: Integrating Land Change Modeling and the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard.

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Network Science-based Urban Forecast Dashboard.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Associations between vacant urban lands and public health outcomes in growing and shrinking cities.

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Simulating the Impact of Land Use Change on Contaminant Transferal during Flood Events in Houston, Texas

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GROWTH AND SHRINKAGE PRE AND POST TSUNAMI IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN.

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Gauging the Relationship between Contextual Growth and Structural Neglect

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3D Visualization of Hurricane Storm Surge Impact on Urban Infrastructure.

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Effects of area-based heritage management on demolition by neglect: Comparing rates in historic urban boroughs

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Urban regeneration: Community engagement process for vacant land in declining cities.

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Leveling the Landscape: Landscape Performance as a Green Infrastructure Evaluation Tool for Service-Learning Products.

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Green infrastructure and community health: exploring the characteristics of campus users in three university towns in Texas.

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The projected impacts of smart decline on urban runoff contamination levels.

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The eidos of urban form: a framework for heritage-based place making

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Citizen Science-Informed Community Master Planning: Land Use and Built Environment Changes to Increase Flood Resilience and Decrease Contaminant Exposure.

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A python script for longitudinally measuring the duration of vacant land uses.

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A longitudinal analysis of green infrastructure conditions in Coastal Texan cities

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Urban decline and residential preference: The effect of vacant lots on housing premiums

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Geodesign in the era of artificial intelligence.

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Predicting Detached Housing Vacancy: A Multilevel Analysis

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Online Learning in Landscape Architecture: Assessing Issues, Preferences, and Student Needs in Design-Related Online Education

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Surveys of community garden affiliates and soils in Houston, Texas.

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Simulating the Spatial Impacts of a Coastal Barrier in Galveston Island, Texas: A Three-Dimensional Urban Modeling Approach.

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Urban versus rural disparities in amenity proximity and housing price: the case of integrated urban-rural city, Sejong, South Korea

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Implementing Community Engaged Disaster Research in Response to Disasters

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Planning the Allocation and Reallocation of Urban Space

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A Review of Driving Factors, Scenarios, and Topics in Urban Land Change Models.

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Landscape Plants for the South-Central United States-An Instructional Resource for Developing Sustainable Built Environments

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Combining Co$ting Nature and Suitability Modeling to Identify High Flood Risk Areas in Need of Nature-Based Services.

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Exploring viable buyout pathways for enhanced health in Galena Park, TX

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Chapter 17 Green infrastructure-based design in Texas coastal communities

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The integration of geographic methods and ecological momentary assessment in public health research: A systematic review of methods and applications.

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Understanding the Notion between Resiliency and Recovery through a Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Section 404 Wetland Alteration Permits before and after Hurricane Ike.

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Buy them out before they are built: evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas.

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Tree canopy, pediatric asthma, and social vulnerability: An ecological study in Connecticut

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Priorities for Advancing the Concept of New Ruralism

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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Impacts of Hurricane Florence on Criteria Air Pollutants and Air Toxics in Eastern North Carolina.

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Integrating Prediction and Performance Models into Scenario-based Resilient Community Design.

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Plan Integration for Ecological Resilience: Examining Factors Associated with Wetland Alteration

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Multiscale Design Strategies in a Landscape Architecture Classroom

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Unseen Risk: Mapping Contamination Hazards to Enhance Risk Perception in Galena Park, Texas.

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Reducing Threats From Contamination and Flood Damage:Restoring the Brandywine Creek Edge in Wilmington, Delaware, USA.

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Chapter 4 Origin of the Institute for Sustainable Communities

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The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities

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COVID-19 and campus users: A longitudinal and place-based study of university mobilities in Texas.

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An assessment method and typology for the regeneration of vacant land in Quito, Ecuador

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Environmental impacts of Hurricane Florence flooding in eastern North Carolina: temporal analysis of contaminant distribution and potential human health risks.

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Elasticity and urban vacancy: A longitudinal comparison of US cities

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Developing Human-Centered Urban Digital Twins for Community Infrastructure Resilience: A Research Agenda.

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Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas.

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Design for Storm Surge Flooding Adaptation: Facilitating Emergency Evacuation with Adaptive Landscape Form-Based Codes

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AMPHIBIOUS CULTURE: HARMONIZING BETWEEN LIFE AND THE SEASONALLY FLOODED FOREST

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Interdisciplinary Citizen Science and Design Projects for Hazard and Disaster Education.

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Resilience through Regeneration: The economics of repurposing vacant land with green infrastructure.

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Coping with post-hurricane mental distress: The role of neighborhood green space.

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Twenty years of research on shrinking cities: a focus on keywords and authors.

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Interstices: Sustained Spatial Relationships between Hands and Surfaces Reveal Anticipated Action

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Developing Campus Digital Twin Using Interactive Visual Analytics Approach.

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Mental health among U.S. College students: implications of COVID-19 and roles of institutional and individual characteristics.

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Estimation and Change in Carbon Stock of Robinia pseudoacacia in Seoul, Korea

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Toward Urban Artificial Intelligence for Developing Justice-Oriented Smart Cities

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Forecasting Urban Vacancy Dynamics in a Shrinking City: A Land Transformation Model

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The Necessary Role of Planning Practice and Scholarship in the Age of Uncertainty

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Factors influencing long-term city park visitations for mid-sized US cities: A big data study using smartphone user mobility

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Expanding the Right to the City Through Regulatory and Financial Planning Tools

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Green infrastructure for coastal flood protection: The longitudinal impacts of green infrastructure patterns on flood damage.

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Neighborhood abandonment and quality of life: A comparison of neighborhood satisfaction and housing value measures

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Integrating ToxPi outputs with ArcGIS Dashboards to identify neighborhood threat levels of contaminant transferal during flood events.

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Integrating a Resilience Scorecard and Landscape Performance into a Geodesign Process.

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Multi-Hazard property buyouts: Making a case for the acquisition of flood and contaminant-prone residential properties in Galena Park, TX.

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Modeling the Relationships Between Historical Redlining, Urban Heat, and Heat-Related Emergency Department Visits: An Examination of 11 Texas Cities.

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Assessing playgrounds ultraviolet radiation (UVR) environments in College Station, Texas: Creating UVR-safe environments for children.

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Evaluating the impact of proximity to reported toxic release facilities and flood events on chronic health outcomes in the city of Galena Park, Texas.

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What is the spatiotemporal pattern of benzene concentration spread over susceptible area surrounding the Hartman Park community, Houston, Texas?

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Evaluation of Networks of Plans and Vulnerability to Hazards and Climate Change

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Four Imperatives for Preventing Demolition by Neglect

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Urban shrapnel: spatial distribution of non-productive space

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Evaluating drivers of housing vacancy: a longitudinal analysis of large U.S. cities from 1960 to 2010.

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100 YEARS OF CELA: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE THE 2020 COUNCIL OF EDUCATORS IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE

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Identifying and comparing vacant housing determinants across South Korean cities

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The spatial relationship between long-term vacant housing and non-communicable diseases in U.S. shrinking and growing metropolitan areas.

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Participatory Action Research: Tools for Disaster Resilience Education.

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The Influence of Urban Landscape Spatial Patterns on Single-Family Property Values.

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Engaged Research: Inviting Residents into the Scientific Process.

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Repurposing Vacant Land through Landscape Connectivity.

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The Living Green Infrastructure Lab: Advancing Interdisciplinary Teaching and Experiential Learning in Landscape Architecture Pedagogy.

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Planning, development pressure, and change in green infrastructure quantity and configuration in coastal Texas

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Toward a Unifying Definition and Approach for Quantifying Urban Policy Performance.

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Vacant urban areas: Causes and interconnected factors

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Utilizing the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Establish Weighted Values for Evaluating the Stability of Slope Revegetation based on Hydroseeding Applications in South Korea

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A classification scheme for vacant urban lands: integrating duration, land characteristics, and survival rates.

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A current inventory of vacant urban land in America

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The relationship between vacant properties and neighborhood gentrification

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Developing the health effect assessment of landscape (HEAL) Tool: Assessing the health effects of community greenspace morphology design on non-communicable diseases

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The Projected Impact of a Neighborhood-scaled Green Infrastructure Retrofit.

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Using the land transformation model to forecast vacant land

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Quality of Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in Vulnerable Communities: Three Case Studies from Texas.

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A Comparison of Vacancy Dynamics between Growing and Shrinking Cities Using the Land Transformation Model.

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Racial and Ethnic Change in Floodplain Buyout Neighborhoods: Twenty-Five Years of Evidence from Houston

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Neighborhood decline and mixed land uses: mitigating housing abandonment in shrinking cities.

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Sea Level Rise as a Design and Planning Issue

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Citizens as Sensors for Small Communities

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Climate Change Preparedness: Comparing Future Urban Growth and Flood Risk in Amsterdam and Houston.

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Utilizing the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Establish Weighted Values for Evaluating the Stability of Slope Revegetation based on Hydroseeding Applications in South Korea

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A framework for place-making using Alexander's patterns

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Urban Planning as an Extension of War Planning: The Case of Shenyang, China, 1898-1966

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100 + 1 | RESILIENCE: The 2021 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference March 1719, 2021, Virtual

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Assessing Annual Pollutant Load Using the L-THIA Model

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Exploring the relationship between daytime and nighttime mobility and park visitation: A case study of Austin, TX

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A Spatial Analysis of Possible Environmental Exposures in Recreational Areas Impacted by Hurricane Harvey Flooding, Harris County, Texas.

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Sustainable urbanism for a metropolitan corridor: An evidence-based urban design for Park 10 in Houston, Texas.

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Subtypes of Park Use and Self-Reported Psychological Benefits Among Older Adults: A Multilevel Latent Class Analysis Approach.

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GIS-based framework for assessing neglect in the historic built environment

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Gauging the Effects of Potential Chemical Transferal on High Flood-Risk Fenceline Communities

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International Society for Environmental Information Science (ISEIS)

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The 2019 Council of Educators In Landscape Architecture (CELA) Conference

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Green infrastructure in comprehensive plans in coastal Texas

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A Statistical Meta-analysis of the Design Components of New Urbanism on Housing Prices

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An Adaptive Toolkit for Projecting the Impact of Green Infrastructure Provisions on Stormwater Runoff and Pollutant Load-A Case Study on the City of Galena Park, Texas, USA.

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Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas

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Exploring the association between campus environment of higher education and student health: A systematic review of findings and measures.

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Hurricane Recovery and Ecological Resilience: Measuring the Impacts of Wetland Alteration Post Hurricane Ike on the Upper TX Coast.

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Toward Coastal Infrastructure Resiliency: An AI-Enabled Decision Support Framework for Multiscale Comprehension and Stakeholder Empowerment

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Advancing the Toxics Mobility Inventory: Development and Application of a Toxics Mobility Vulnerability Index to Harris County, Texas.

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Generating conceptual landscape design via text-to-image generative AI model.

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Natural Experiments in Planning Research

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Web of Science-Based Green Infrastructure: A Bibliometric Analysis in CiteSpace.

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A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Green Infrastructure in Mitigating Pollutant Transferal and Flood Events in Sunnyside, Houston, TX

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Calculating the Environmental Impacts of Low-Impact Development Using Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment: A Review of Model Applications.

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Advancing Scenario Planning through Integrating Urban Growth Prediction with Future Flood Risk Models.

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Comprehensive Tools and Models for Addressing Exposure to Mixtures During Environmental Emergency-Related Contamination Events

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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - (Durham, North Carolina, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

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Texas A&M Center for Environmental Health Research

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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - (Durham, North Carolina, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

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NOAA Omnibus Texas Sea Grant Support 2018-2021

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; 3137 TAMU -Langford A 304

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Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

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Arts & Humanities Fellows Program Presents Series Of Animated Shorts

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Zhu, Rui (2023-08). Associations Between Existing and Re-Greened Vacant Urban Properties and Public Health Across City Types. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Gu, Donghwan (2015-05). The Effect of LEED Certification on Urban Heat Islands. Master's Thesis.

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Kim, Bo Ah (2016-08). The Conversion of Urban Vacant Land: The Case of Fort Worth, Texas. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Wang, Huaqing (2021-08). Effects of Greenspace Morphology on Population Health. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Gu, Donghwan (2020-12). Redevelopment of Vacant Land: Planning Perspectives on Disaster Recovery. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Lee, Jaekyung (2017-05). Forecasting Vacancy Dynamics in Growing Versus Shrinking Cities: A Smart City Initiative. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Lee, Ryun Jung (2018-05). Vacant Urban Land: Typology, Neighborhood Effects, and Gentrification. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Kim, You Jung (2019-05). Advancing Scenario Planning to Prepare for Uncertain Climate Change: Future Urban Growth Prediction and Flood Vulnerability. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Tao, Zhihan (2023-08). Assessing Green Infrastructure’s Impact on Flood Disaster Resilience: An Economic Perspective on Community Recovery from Tropical Storm Imelda. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Musharrat, Saima (2017-08). Reclaiming Vacancies:  A Community Revitalization and Resilience Strategy. Master's Thesis.