Urban Studies Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Urban Studies department.

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Description:: Dollar General is the most numerous store in the United States. With food accounting for the majority of the chain's sales, the stores play an …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Hornbuckle, Eliana C. (creator); Yapp, Lauren (thesis advisor); Schneider, Mindi (reader); Pangborn, Nicole (reader); Brown University. Urban Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Interviews; Rural health; Food security; Iowa; Perception; Survey; Geospatial data; Rural conditions; Rural-urban relations
Language:: English
Collection:: Urban Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This research seeks to understand how proximity to RIPTA routes, freight shipping routes, and freeways is related to variations in concentrations of CO, CO2, and …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Gendreau, Adam Kyle (creator); Hastings, Meredith G. (thesis advisor); Zipp, Samuel (reader); Porder, Stephen (reader); Brown University. Urban Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Rhode Island--Providence; Transportation; Air quality
Language:: English
Collection:: Breathe Providence Digital Collection; Institute at Brown for Environment & Society; Theses and Dissertations; Urban Studies

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Description:: The Internet is increasingly important to urban life, but Internet service in American cities is overpriced and slower than it should be. Even though it …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Sarli, Christopher (creator); Logan, John (thesis advisor); Orr, Marion (reader); Brown University. Urban Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Telecommunication; infrastructure; Internet--Access control--Government policy; Inequality; Internet; Telecommunication policy; United States. Federal Communications Commission; Monopolies
Language:: English
Collection:: Urban Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Located on the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown is a small place with a big reputation. Born out of maritime industries, over the 20th century …
Year:: 2026
Contributor:: Kylee Hong (Author); Marijoan Bull (Advisor/Reader); John Logan (Advisor/Reader); Urban Studies (Brown University) and Interior Architecture and Adaptive Reuse (RISD) (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: municipal housing policy; local political economy; affordable housing; municipal governance; community preservation; Provincetown; Massachusetts; seasonal communities; displacement
Collection:: Urban Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: I begin with the premise that our current housing market is one in crisis, in which Americans are faced with a rigid binary-- buy or …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Gosselin, Nora (creator); Zipp, Samuel (thesis advisor); Bull, Marijoan (reader); Brown University. Urban Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Housing; Cooperative; Rhode Island--Providence
Language:: English
Collection:: Urban Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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