Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The View from the Table: An Analysis of Participant Reactions to Community-Based Dialogues on Food and Justice, Jennifer Turner (Thesis)
Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: Queer Localization in the Age of Anita Bryant, 1974-1980, Stewart John Van Cleve (Thesis)
Skateboarding as Transportation: Findings from an Exploratory Study, Tessa Walker (Thesis)
Rooftop PV Impacts on Fossil Fuel Electricity Generation and CO2 Emissions in the Pacific Northwest, Daniel Albert Weiland (Thesis)
Measuring the Effects of Environmental Certification on Residential Property Values - Evidence from Green Condominiums in Portland, U.S., Xi Yang (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Engaging Global Service: Organizational Motivations for and Perceived Benefits of Hosting International Volunteers, Erin Leslie Barnhart (Dissertation)
Sustainable Operations at Portland State University: Relevant Organizational Issues and a Path Forward, Molly Mae Bressers (Thesis)
Street Art, Ideology, and Public Space, Tiffany Renée Conklin (Thesis)
Feasible Models of Universal Health Insurance in Oregon According to Stakeholder Views, Terry Richard Hammond (Dissertation)
Humor-Related Social Exchanges and Mental Health in Assisted Living Residents, Ann Elizabeth McQueen (Dissertation)
Public Policy and Sexual Geography in Portland, Oregon, 1970-2010, Elizabeth Morehead (Dissertation)
Narrative Processes in Urban Planning: A Case Study of Swamp Gravy in Colquitt, Georgia, Ronald David Pate (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The dynamics of change among community development corporations in Inner North/Northeast Portland, 1987-2006, Louisa Jenkins Brown (Dissertation)
Navigating the Edges: An Examination of the Relationship between Boundary Spanning, Social Learning, and Partnership Capacity in Water Resource Management, Stephan Edward Brown (Dissertation)
Opening Black Boxes and Following Traces: An Exploration of the Coalition for a Livable Future's Regional Equity Atlas Actor-World, 2003-2007, Meg Merrick (Dissertation)
Exploring Sense of Place of Community Gardens in Portland, Barbara E. Shields (Dissertation)
The Experience of Senior Housing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Seniors: An Exploratory Study, Kathleen Margaret Sullivan (Dissertation)
Wherefore by Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Mercy Corps' Peaceful Communities Initiative in Central Asia, John Thomas Westerman (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Portland's Independent Music Scene: The Formation of Community Identities and Alternative Urban Cultural Landscapes, Rebecca Elizabeth Ball (Thesis)
Community Development for a White City: Race Making, Improvementism, and the Cincinnati Race Riots and Anti-Abolition Riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841, Silas Niobeh Crowfoot (Dissertation)
Assessing Portland's Smart Growth: A Comprehensive Housing Supply and Location Choice Modeling Approach, Hongwei Dong (Dissertation)
The Foundation to Collaborate: Understanding the Role of Participant Interests, Tia S. Henderson (Dissertation)
Working Mothers' Decisions, Experiences and Feelings about using On-Site Childcare, Stephanie LaRae Hixson-Somanchi (Dissertation)
Guild's Lake Courts : an impermanent housing project, Tanya Lyn March (Dissertation)
Policy Responses to the Closure of Manufactured Home Parks in Oregon, Andrée Tremoulet (Dissertation)
Modeling the Role of Operational Characteristics in Safety Performance of PublicTransportation Systems: The Case of TriMet Bus Collision and Non-collision Incidents., Paul Herman Wachana (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dutch Spatial Planning: The Coordination of Compact Development and Affordable Housing, Andrew James Eickmann (Thesis)
The Incorporation of Direct Democracy : Populism and Initiative Practices as Contested Terrain, Larry Galizio (Dissertation)
The Social Bottom Line of Community Development Financial Institutions: What Facilitates or Inhibits the Uptake and Use of Meaningful Social and Community Impact Reporting?, Kelly Haines (Thesis)
Community, Conversation, and Conflict: a Study of Deliberation and Moderation in a Collaborative Political Weblog, Samantha Isabella Soma (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Giving Process its Due : can Collaboration Help Environmental Markets Succeed?, John Robert Cochran (Dissertation)
Benchmarking Community Investments in Green Building and Green Buying Programs in Five U.S. Cities, Shanna Nicole Eller (Dissertation)
"Whose streets? Our streets!" Urban Social Movements and the Transformation of Everyday Life in Pacific Northwest Cities, 1990-1999, Leanne Claire Serbulo (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Contribution of Public Support Agency Programs to Local New Firm Performance, Stephen Baker Braun (Dissertation)
Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Learning and Action Processes for Social Change and Sustainability : The Case of a Regional Food System Effort in the Pacific Northwest, Janet Michelle Hammer (Dissertation)
Active Recreation in Parks: Can Park Design and Facilities Promote use and physical activity?, Lynnette Renee Weigand (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Examining the Effects of Transit Service on Commuting Mode Choice and residential location choice, Jaturapat Bhiromkaew (Dissertation)
Impact of Universal Health Coverage on Health in Late Life, Nathalie Huguet (Dissertation)
Oregon's Approach to Health Care Reform : an Analysis of the Role of the Business Community in the evolution of the Oregon Health Plan, Peter Chuka Olemgbe (Dissertation)
Redrawing the Color Line : a Case Study of the Alliance of Minority Chambers of Commerce in Portland, Oregon, Francisca Inez Trujillo-Dalbey (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Community Benchmarks: An Analysis of Performance Measurements in Urban Planning Management, Susan Joan Daluddung (Dissertation)
Actor and Partner Effects Among Marital Dyads in Retirement Adjustment and Well-being, Julie Guenette Howard (Dissertation)
Self-help Support Groups: Choices in Participation Among Women Facing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Maria A. Pfeifer (Thesis)
Evaluating Deliberative Democracy : Comparing Habermas' Discourse Ethic and Evaluations of Consensus Process in Residential Cooperatives, Katheryn Sutter (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Women Adrift, Sporting Girls and the Unfortunate Poor: A Gendered History of Homelessness in Portland 1900-1929, Leanne Claire Serbulo (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Special Focus Programs, Magnet Programs and Schools, and Early Childhood Education Centers: Equal Access in Portland Public School's Elementary Options, Nancy Seidule Hauth (Thesis)
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit : a Case Study of Policy Learning, Coalition Building, and Paradigm expansion, Terri Hinson Silvis (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Dialectics of Control : the Origins and Evolution of Conflict in Portland's Neighborhood Association Program, Matthew Witt (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Public Transportation for the Elderly: A Neighborhood-Area Fixed-Route Alternative, Richard James Burke (Thesis)
Korean-American Elders in Independent Living Arrangements, Shinok Lee (Thesis)
Reading Neighborhood Character : A Semiotic Analysis of Three Portland, Oregon Neighborhoods, Jodi Hanson Tanner (Thesis)
Urban Traffic Arterials and the Sale Price of Single Family Houses in Portland: A Hedonic Analysis of Impacts, Philip Wuest (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Urgent Care Center Location: an Empirical Analysis of their Locations in Relation to Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Land Use Factors: a Case Study of Portland, Oregon, Abdullah Alfaiz (Dissertation)
Hedonic Analysis of Housing Prices Near the Portland Urban Growth Boundary, 1978-1990, Abdullah Alkadi (Dissertation)
Characteristics of Administrators' Leadership Style in Quality Child Care Centers, Katherine Ann Bobula (Dissertation)
Organizational Responses to Educational Telecommunications Policy in Three States: Oregon, Colorado, and Utah, Kathi Arlene Ketcheson (Dissertation)
Violent Youth Gangs in Portland: a Study of the City's Response, Debra Lynn Lindberg (Dissertation)
Unrelated Business Enterprise and Unfair Business Competition Issues Facing Nonprofit Organizations, Larry Glen Scruggs (Dissertation)
Government Policy and Private Organizational Forms: Analysis of Refuse Collection and Disposal in Three Metropolitan Cities, Thomas Wright (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Pretrial Release in Criminal Courts: a Study of Three Oregon Counties, Melvin Earl DeGraw (Dissertation)
Physical and Environmental Features that Contribute to Satisfaction with Hospice Facilities, Arezu Movahed (Dissertation)
Behavioral and Community Impacts of the Portland Needle Exchange Program, Kathleen Joan Oliver (Dissertation)
Implementing Community Policing: a Documentation and Assessment of Organizational Change, EmmaJean Williams (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Private Profit Versus Public Service: Competing Demands in Urban Transportation History and Policy, Portland, Oregon, 1872-1970, Martha J. Bianco (Dissertation)
Decentralization of Urban Service Activities: an Empirical Study, Wonseon Kyung (Dissertation)
A Simultaneous Route-level Transit Patronage Model: Demand, Supply, and Inter-route Relationship, Zhongren Peng (Dissertation)
The Decision and Rationale Which Led to Construction on High-risk Land After the 1964 Alaska Earthquake: Analysis of Risk-based Cultural Dissociation, Sheila Ann Selkregg (Dissertation)
The Determinants of Women's Work: A Case Study from Three Urban Low-income Communities in Amman, Jordan, Taghrid Khuri Tubbeh (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Comparative Analysis of Resettlement Policies in Third World Countries, Abrahim Jawad Al-Khalisi (Thesis)
Cities and Automobile Dependence: An Empirical Examination of Density and Automobile Dependence Relationship and Their Underlying Factors, Musaad Abdullah Al-Mosaind (Dissertation)
Explorations into the Characteristics, the Determinants of Production, and the Impact of Land Policies on the Informal Housing Sector in Alexandria, Egypt, Mostafa Morsi El Araby (Dissertation)
Assessing the Impact of an ESL/Bilingual Program by Means of Instrumental Variable Estimation, John Akanbi Babatunde (Thesis)
Urban Regimes and Downtown Planning in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, 1972-1992, Mark Richard Bello (Dissertation)
A Study of Differences between Social/HMO and Other Medicare Beneficiaries Enrolled in Kaiser Permanente under Capitation Contracts Regarding Intermediate Care Facility Use Rates and Expenditures, Lynn Allen Boose (Dissertation)
Hidden Hills, Hidden Meanings: A Neighborhood Study, Terri Ewing (Thesis)
Urbanization in a Peripheral Capitalist State: A Guyana Case Study, Wazir Ahmad Ishmael (Dissertation)
The Theory and Practice of Community Policing: An Evaluation of the Iris Court Demonstration Project, Charles Moose (Dissertation)
Evaluation of Information Resource Management: Measuring Change in a Federal Bureaucracy, Randolph D. Perrin (Thesis)
Object Parallel Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Modeling System, David Bruce Rex (Dissertation)
An Implementation Analysis of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, James Joseph Rich (Dissertation)
Satisfaction with Social Support Among Recent Widows, Rachael Ann Silverman (Thesis)
Rapists and Their Parental Relationships, Yaeko Steidel (Dissertation)
Determining the Property Value Impact of Landfills, Okwuchukwu Gerald Uba (Dissertation)
Towards Comprehensive Migration Modeling: A Meta-analytic Approach, Wamukota Francis Wambalaba (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Alzheimer's Disease Caregivers: The Transition from Home Care to Formal Care, Marie Theresa Duncan (Dissertation)
Residential Mobility and Revitalization in Portland Between 1970 and 1980: A Study of the Urban Structural Impacts on Neighborhood Revitalization, Sheka Gassimou Kamara (Dissertation)
Geographic Data in City Planning Departments: The Volume and Use Related to Advancements in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology, Fawzi Saeed Kubbara (Dissertation)
The Metropolitan-Nonmetropolitan Turnaround in the Pacific States (California, Oregon, and Washington): Labor Migration Flows and Economic Deconcentration, Beverly Marie McLean (Dissertation)
Perceiving and Coping with Exclusion: The Socialization Experiences of Ethnic Minority Nursing Students, Sarah Porter-Tibbetts (Thesis)
Intergenerational Programming: A Confluence of Interests Between the Frail Elderly and Urban Youth, Doris Schindler (Dissertation)
State Industrial Policy and the Autonomy of State Leaders: Evidence from the Oregon Experience, Matthew I. Slavin (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The Effect of Road Investment on Economic Development: A Case Study of the Oregon Counties, Ameer Mohammed Al-Alwan (Dissertation)
The Role of Tourism in Development: A Case Study of Turkey, Habib Alipouraghtapeh (Dissertation)
Who's in Jail?: An Examination of Irwin's Rabble Hypothesis, John Allen Backstrand (Dissertation)
The Process of Neighborhood Development: The Role of Restrictive Covenants in the Development of Residential Neighborhoods, Eric David Hart (Thesis)
A Comparison of Socio-Political Attitudes of Older Urban Women: The 1910-1924 Cohorts, Elizabeth Slack Ikehara (Dissertation)
The Relocation of North Bonneville, Washington, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A Policy Implementation Study, Cecil Eugene Reinke (Dissertation)
An Exploratory Analysis of Certain Characteristics of Policewomen: A Second Look, Harry Oliver White Jr. (Dissertation)
The Development and Testing of an Instrument to Measure Client Satisfaction of Child Protective Service Families, James Michael White (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Determinants of OPEC Market Share Stability, Fahed M. Al-Ajmi (Dissertation)