Geographical Sciences

Understanding the regional economic implications of rising water and wastewater services is important, because these services are household necessities. To date, however, [...]

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This thesis seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of chronically underused stations throughout the Chicago Transit Authority’s rail network. I will specifically [...]

Regenerative development is an emergent field of practice aimed to address escalating climate change and urbanization trends by incorporating holistic, systems thinkin [...]

Decades of segregationist housing policies, disinvestment, and structural racism have stratified urban America into wealthier and whiter neighborhoods, and poorer comm [...]

Besides its protective function, housing also has significant cultural, social, and personal meanings; therefore, the change in housing morphology can subsequently alter [...]

As cities across the world have experienced urbanization over the past several decades, gentrification, and its accompanying social and economic tensions, has become one [...]

In recent years, cities across the United States have expanded their bicycle infrastructure. In some instances, community members and local politicians have criticized th [...]

Overall place-based public expenditure in Chicago has followed patterns of neoliberal spatial selectivity, where business and economic development is prioritized, primari [...]

This thesis builds off of interviews with former members of Chicago’s Uptown Tent City to add to our understanding of the homeless community’s relationship with the shelt [...]

This study focuses on the spatial claims that the Obama Foundation and South Side Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) Coalition make regarding the Obama Presidential Cente [...]

Chicago’s black population has dropped by a third from its 1950 peak, and continues to drop even as other racial groups grow. Because of Chicago’s severe racial segregati [...]

Given the substantial cost of running carceral facilities in the United States and the overcrowding of jails and prisons, the number of individuals on electronic monitori [...]