Research and outreach
Research and outreach
Research centers
Georgia Tech planning faculty and students are important members in many research centers and associations. Here are links to some of them:
Student projects
Our students work on many applied planning problems in the Atlanta region and throughout the state of Georgia. Here are some examples:
- A 2006 studio project proposing redevelopment of auto assembly plants in the Atlanta suburbs of Doraville and Hapeville.
- Georgia Tech won Honorable Mention in the 2005 Urban Land Institute Urban Design Competition.
- A 2004 studio worked on the Georgia Conservancy's Blueprints program for Berkeley Park.
- A 2003 studio on brownfields won the 2003 Georgia Planning Association Student Project Award.
Faculty research
In addition to projects through formally established research centers, faculty and staff at Georgia Tech are involved in numerous other basic and applied research projects at the local, state, regional, federal, and international level. Projects and interests of City Planning faculty include:
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- South Fulton Parkway project
- Atlanta Steel project
- Inner city carpet recycling
- Historical industrial development patterns and their effect on brownfield redevelopment
- The industrial restructuring of the wood products industry in the U.S.
- Economic benefits from good planning and design in residential development
- Alternative environmental valuation methods in water resource planning
- The impact of urban growth and development in the Sunbelt
- Values for the public and professionals in planning and development
- Effective stormwater management practices
- The management of conflicts involving land and resource allocation decisions
- The siting of regionally desirable but locally unwanted facilities
- Security and crime prevention in transit stations through design and planning
- Risk management and mitigation in environmental planning
- Development plans for growing neighborhoods with mixed-uses
- Urban design implementation
- Central business district revitalization
- Suburban and ex-urban development patterns
- Development planning for Atlanta
- Productivity in the homebuilding industry
- Geographic information systems for small and large areas
- Evaluating the economic and fiscal impacts of development
- Homelessness and the design of housing programs
- Market analysis for large-scale residential and commercial development
- The effectiveness of local transportation planning agencies
- Research on transit impact and transportation alternatives in metropolitan areas