Urban Issues

Asterisk (*) after year denotes honors thesis.

1985

• Nancy Leila Vorley, Waterfront Development: A Revitalization Study of the Burlington Waterfront

1987

• Jenifer Tsang, Confusion or Control?: A Parking Study Method for Urban Areas

1995

• Josh Fields, A Survey of Burlington Residents Regarding The "North 40" Urban Reserve
• Kirsten Frey, A Comparative Analysis of Consumers in an Urban Community in regard to Environmentally Sound Products
• Jeffery Tighe, A Case Study of Pedestrian Oriented Streets Comparing Church Street in Burlington, Vermont with The Main Mall in Poughkeepsie, New York

1999

• Rebecca Chaffee, Spring Informational Meetings: Enhancing Chittenden Community Action's Role in Urban Agriculture
• Daniel J. Samton, Does Street Reconstruction and Related Tree Root Damage Affect all Maple Species Equally?: An Investigation into the Causes of Street Tree Decline in Burlington, Vermont

2002

• Suzanne Brushart, Urban Youth Restore the Herring Run
• * Ignatius Piedilato and Kristofer Wilfert, Survey of Rooftop Gardens of the Northeast

2003

• Erika Graham, A Green Roof Design for the University of Vermont
• Susan King, Designing an Environmental Education Curriculum for the King Street Youth Center After School Program
• Ray Foley, Pursuing Environmental Justice in Camden, New Jersey: Working in Partnership with South Camden Citizens in Action & the Waterfront South Community

2004

• Molly Bagnato, An Analysis of the State of Vermont Water Resources Board Docket: Investigation into Developing Cleanup Plans for Stormwater Impaired Waters
  
• Hayley Cohen, Ecological Restoration in Poor Urban Communities: A Case Study of Sustainable South Bronx
  
• Kaitlin Dougherty, How Could This Happen? The Story of Camden’s Demise
  
• Patrick Flynn, Biodiesel Usage in Local Transport Authorities: A National Lesson for Chittenden County
  
• Bayley Kavanaugh, Learning to Be Whole in West Baltimore: Experiential Environmental Program Design and Implementation for ConneXions Community Leadership Academy
  
• Tristan Leggett, Biodiesel Usage in Local Transport Authorities: A National Lesson for Chittenden County
  
• Sara E. Mehalick, Creating Sustainable Urban Dwellings: A Passive Solar Design Retrofit for Wilks Hall at the University of Vermont
  
• Kat Shultz, An Assessment of the Vermont Transit Bus Barn Brownfield Redevelopment: From Community Involvement to Community Impacts

2005

• Kathryn N. Costello, Connecting Hondurans, Despite the Distance: The Importance of Traditional Foods: A Case Study of Honduran Panela and Hispanic Markets in Boston and New York City
• Lauren Masseria, The Evolution of Graffiti and its Community Implications
• *Danielle Sokol, Defining Faces and Sharing Stories with Spectrum Youth

2006

• Sophie H. Bassin, In Their Shoes: Survival and Conceptions of Home Among Homeless Youth
• Jessica Dunlop, Environmental Awareness and the Usefulness of Trees in Unlikely Places
• Allie Klein, Stormwater Management in Chittenden County
• Flora Kohane, New York City’s Hybrid Taxi Regulation: Approaches to Advancing a Clean Technology
• Lauren Sparacino, Feeding the Masses: An Ecological Economic Case for Localizing Food Production
  

  2007

• Kevin Alkire, Recommended Strategies for Mitigating Stormwater Inflows onto UVM Horticultural Research Center Property
• Marissa Harris, Environmental Justice through Community Involvement
• Allie Klein, Stormwater Management in Chittenden County
  

  2008

• Brittany Morin Dunn,  Connecting Community to Waste: Applying Waste Reduction Strategies at the Municipal Level in Newport, New Hampshire
  

  2009

• Laura Grabow, The Culture of Nature Within the Urban Landscape: The Church Street Marketplace
• Jennifer Latessa, Transiting to Sustainability: Public Transportation Assessment, Analysis, and Resolution in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Conor Rice, Uprooting Urban Decay: Ecological Design Applied to Urban Agriculture
  
• Michael John Sullivan, Burlington Permaculture: Applying Permaculture Design to Improve Urban Sustainability in Burlington, Vermont
  

  2010

• Alessandro Ascherio  –  Drifting Toward Urban Agriculture: Adventures in Urban Gardening at 26 East Avenue
  
• Hannah Beal  –  Sustainability Compendium: Using Personal Accounts to Create a Guide for Young Urbanites
  
• Allie Calnan  – Seeds of Rebellion: Civil Engagemen in the Gardens of the Lower East Side
  
• Forest William Donaj-Keys  –  Guerrilla Gardening: Perspectives and Trends in the Current Movement
  
• Josh Ellsworth  –  A Smart Growth Assessment of Affordable Housing in Burlington, Vermont
  
• Lori Gambardella  –  Sustainability Compendium: Using Personal Accounts to Create a Guide for Young Urbanites
  
• Benjamin D. Heath  –  Statistical Analysis of Chemical Constituents and Their Mean Removal Efficiencies from Stormwater Infrastructure in Williston, Vermont
  
• Timothy Smalley-Wall  –  “Food Not Lawns”: Addressing the Costs and Benefits of Converting a Backyard Lawn into a Vegetable Garden, Los Angeles, California
  
• Stephanie Steeves  –  Components of Food Access: A Food Environment Case Study in Winooski, Vermont
  
• Holly Cameron Watson   –  Cultivating Education: A Service-Learning Partnership with Grow Team ONE
  
• Brooke Ziehr  –  Detroit Urban Farm: An Urban Farm for A Better City, Detroit, Michigan
  

  2011

• Madeleine Brown  – Bike Plans, Budget Allocations and Biking Infrastructure: How City Governments Demonstrate Levels of Commitment to Bicycle Systems
  
• Nathan Canan-Zucker  –  Rural Transit: An In-Depth Investigation into the Conflict Between Equity & Efficiency
  
• James DeBiasi  –  Addressing the Interface of Urban Agriculture with Municipal Policy: A Project-Based Internship with the Urban Agriculture Task Force of Burlington
  
• Katherine Devine  –  Stormwater Management at the University of Vermont: Mapping and Design for Campus Sustainability
  
• Thomas J. Devlin  –  Why Not Green Building? The Times are Changing
  
• * Matthew Judd  –  Relationships Between Aircraft Fleet Composition and Environmental Impacts
  
• Greta Moore  –  A Landscape Design to Manage Stormwater at the University of Vermont's Environmental Program Building, The Bittersweet
  
• * Caroline Shepard  –  Sustainable Urban Composting: Determining Best Practices for Organic Waste Management in Burlington, Vermont
  

  2012

• Mary Sage Clinton Napolitan – A Permaculture Design for the Bittersweet
• Brienne Toomey – Digging Up the Dirt: Exposing the Barriers and Challenges of Community Gardening
• Melissa Wheeler – Growing Justice: A Food Justice and Urban Farming Internship with City Slickers Farms in Oakland, California

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