# overview
Dr. Shannon Van Zandt's scholarship focuses on the intersection of affordable housing with disaster impacts, resilience, and recovery, with particular interest in how residential land use patterns exacerbate or mitigate exposure to natural hazards, specifically flooding. She has served as PI or co-PI on nearly $10 million in external funding from the NSF, the National Institute of Standards & Technology, the Army Corps of Engineers, and others. She is an author of the 2014 book, Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters, along with more than 45 other journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. In Texas, Dr. Van Zandt serves on the board of Texas Housers, one of the nation's premiere advocacy organizations for low-income housing, and an active advocate for housing recovery after Hurricanes Ike, Dolly, and Harvey.

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4101 Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation

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Us Department Of Housing And Urban Development

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Voluntary Acquisition And Relocation Program

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Health Disparities And Racial Or Ethnic Minority Health Research

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Nicole & Kevin Youngblood Endowed Professorship in Residential Land Development

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Rodney L. Dockery Endowed Professor in Housing and the Homeless

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

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Toward Urban Artificial Intelligence for Developing Justice-Oriented Smart Cities

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Potential of Citizen Science for Enhancing Infrastructure Monitoring Data and Decision-Support Models for Local Communities.

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9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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

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Housing Tenure and Social Vulnerability to Disasters: A Review of the Evidence

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The Effect of Housing Choice Voucher Households on Neighborhood Crime: Longitudinal Evidence From Dallas

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The development of a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure: Neighborhood-level monitoring towards sustainable infrastructure systems.

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9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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

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When a joke represents so much more: the end of PLANET and the rise of planners 2040

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The Relationship Between Residential Land Use Patterns and the Educational Outcomes of Economically Disadvantaged Students in Texas

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Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Household and Business Post-disaster Return

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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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Validity and Reliability of Drainage Infrastructure Monitoring Data Obtained from Citizen Scientists

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Chapter 12 Conclusion-lessons and regrets

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Beyond bottled water and sandwiches: What FEMA is doing to get hurricane victims back into their homes

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A longitudinal analysis of green infrastructure conditions in Coastal Texan cities

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Participatory Action Research: Tools for Disaster Resilience Education.

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To Rebuild or Relocate? Long-Term Mobility Decisions of Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Recipients

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Redressing Racial and Environmental Injustice Through a Voluntary Acquisition and Relocation Program

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Can community land trusts slow gentrification?

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Engaged Research: Inviting Residents into the Scientific Process.

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Inequities in long-term housing recovery after disasters

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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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Do first-time home buyers improve their neighborhood quality?

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Racial/Ethnic differences in housing outcomes for first-time, low-income home buyers: Findings from a national homeownership education program

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4 reasons affordable housing is slow to recover after disasters like hurricanes, and what communities can do about it

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

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The impact of zoning regulations on thermal comfort in non-conditioned housing in hot, humid climates: findings from Dhaka, Bangladesh

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The Adoption of Hazard Mitigation and Climate Change Adaptation Policies, Programs, and Actions by Local Jurisdictions along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts

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Post-Disaster Sheltering, Temporary Housing and Permanent Housing Recovery

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Erratum to: The impact of zoning regulations on thermal comfort in non-conditioned housing in hot, humid climates: findings from Dhaka, Bangladesh

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

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Hurricane season is here, but FEMAs policy change could leave low-income areas less protected

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Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Coupled Natural-Physical-Social Systems: Cascading Impact of Hurricane-Induced Damages to Civil Infrastructure in Galveston, Texas

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Teaming, teaching, transforming minds: TTI and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

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Small-Town Housing Needs: Resource Inefficiencies and Urban Bias in the United States

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Planning for Disaster Recovery: Planner Perspectives and Experiences

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Planning the Allocation and Reallocation of Urban Space

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Housing Recovery after Disasters: Primary versus Seasonal and Vacation Housing Markets in Coastal Communities

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Citizens as Sensors for Small Communities

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Mapping social vulnerability to enhance housing and neighborhood resilience

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Inequities in Long-Term Housing Recovery After Disasters

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Using social vulnerability mapping to enhance coastal community resiliency in Texas

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Planning for Climate Adaptation: Evaluating the Changing Patterns of Social Vulnerability and Adaptation Challenges in Three Coastal Cities

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The Impacts of Cost Determinism in Architectural Foundation Design Education: An analysis of foundation design studio

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Unequal Protection Revisited: Planning for Environmental Justice, Hazard Vulnerability, and Critical Infrastructure in Communities of Color

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Housing type matters for pace of recovery: Evidence from Hurricane Ike

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Mitigation Planning: Why Hazard Exposure, Structural Vulnerability, and Social Vulnerability Matter

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10. The Social-Psychological Effects of Affordable Homeownership

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Planning for Community Resilience, A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters

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Chapter 1 Introduction: our global story

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When a joke represents so much more: The end of PLANET and the rise of planners 2040 (vol 18, pg 156, 2017)

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Chapter 2 A case for engaged research and practice

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Green infrastructure in comprehensive plans in coastal Texas

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Unpacking the impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program on nearby property values

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Impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program on Neighborhood Housing Turnover

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Disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead  that loss hurts the economy

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Natural Experiments in Planning Research

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The sustainability of low-income homeownership: The incidence of unexpected costs and needed repairs among low-income homebuyers

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HOMEOWNERSHIP AND NEIGHBORHOOD SATISFACTION AMONG LOW- AND MODERATE-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS

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Evaluating Subdivision Characteristics on Single-Family Housing Value Using Hierarchical Linear Modelling

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The sustainability of low-income homeownership: the incidence of unexpected costs and needed repairs among low-income home buyers

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The 2016 Unexpected Mid-State Louisiana Flood: With Special Focus on the Different Rescue and Recovery Responses It Engendered

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Coming home: Resident satisfaction regarding return to a revitalized HOPE VI community

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Impacts on Socially Vulnerable Populations

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Home ownership and access to opportunity

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

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The Case for Planners as Disaster Specialists

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GROWING PAINS: PERPETUATING INEQUALITY THROUGH THE PRODUCTION OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING IN THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX

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The interdependent networked community resilience modeling environment (IN-CORE)

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Collaborative Research: Interdependency in Decision Making, A Holistic Approach to Understanding Community Recovery from Catastrophes

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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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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EAGER - Citizen Science for Infrastructure Monitoring at the Neighborhood Level

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Developing a “Living Laboratory” for Examining Community Recovery and Resilience after Disaster

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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The Adoption and Utilization of Hazard Mitigation Practices By Jurisdictions Along Gulf and Atlantic Coasts

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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RAPID: Technological versus Natural Disasters: Consequences for Early Recovery Planning and Decision-Making at the Community and Household Level

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Organizational Development, Operations, and New Media Among Civilian Flood-Rescue Groups

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Status and Trends of Coastal Vulnerability to Natural Hazards

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Texas General Land Office - (Austin, Texas, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Modeling the Vulnerability of Mobile Home Parks to Disaster: A Longitudinal Study of Affordable Housing Loss after Hurricane Harvey

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Social Vulnerability and Urban Development Patterns: Impacts on Community Resilience

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Structures of Long-Term Disaster Recovery: Organizational Roles and Collaboration in Six Cities

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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

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4 reasons affordable housing is slow to recover after disasters like hurricanes, and what communities can do about it

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Mentoring the next generation of urban planners

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Dr. Shannon Van Zandt Presents to Congress on Disaster Preparedness

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Disasters can wipe out affordable housing for years unless communities plan ahead – the loss hurts the entire local economy

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Tran, Tho Ngo Duc (2013-05). Public Housing after Hurricane, Urban Renewal or Removal? The Case Studies of Beaumont and Galveston, Texas.. Master's Thesis.

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Lasley, Philip (2017-05). The Influence of Transportation on Residential Choice: A Survey of Texas REALTORS® on Factors Affecting Housing Location Choice. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Xu, Junping (2013-12). A Comprehensive Analysis of Multi-level Factors Affecting Individuals Walking to Transit Stations in the City of Los Angeles, California. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Park, Han (2017-08). Housing Choice Voucher Households and Neighborhood Quality: A Case Study of Harris County, Texas. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Wilkins, Chandler Ian (2019-05). Are We Improving?: The Neighborhood Quality of Housing Choice Voucher Recipients in Houston, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey. Master's Thesis.

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Losey, Clare (2021-08). Much Ado About Affordability: Examining the Intersection between Purchase Affordability and Neighborhood Opportunity. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Hendricks, Marccus D (2017-05). The Infrastructures of Equity and Environmental Justice. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Hamideh, Sara (2015-08). Planning for Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Hurricane Ike for Theory and Practice. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Mhatre, Pratik Chandrashekhar (2009-08). Examination of Housing Price Impacts on Residential Properties Before and After Superfund Remediation Using Spatial Hedonic Modeling. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Ko, Youngho (2008-08). The different urban efforts to revitalize urban neighborhoods in the United States and the United Kingdom: comparative case study based on governmental responses focusing on urban neighborhood revitalization. Master's Thesis.

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Lee, Jee Young (2015-05). Housing Unmet Needs During Disaster Phases: The Case of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Texas. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Hovde, Lauren Amelia (2016-12). Economic Effects of Residential-Neighborhood Conservation Zoning in Bryan, Texas. Master's Thesis.

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Djonie, Jamil (2009-12). Urban Racial Segregation Measures Comparison. Master's Thesis.

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Choi, Myungshik (2015-05). The Impact of Community Land Trusts on Gentrification. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Norboge, Nicolas Dane (2018-12). A Mixed-Methods Analysis of State Highway Public-Private Partnership Enabling Legislation. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Seong, Ki Jin (2021-08). Living with Floods: Longitudinal Impact of Floodplain Buyouts on Neighborhood Change. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Woo, Ayoung (2014-05). Siting of Subsidized Housing in Neighborhoods: Assessing Economic, Neighborhood, and Social Equity Impacts. Doctoral Dissertation.

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