Assessing the future : the impacts of development on Steamboat Springs, Colorado

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Gooding, Gates
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Impacts of development on Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Michael Flaxman.
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Abstract
The residents of Steamboat Springs, Colorado are continually faced with new propositions for accommodating population growth, but do not possess the proper tools for comparing the potential impacts of different options. In this thesis, I construct four alternative futures for Steamboat Springs, based on realistic potential growth trajectories. Using a visual survey technique and geospatial impact modeling, I then test the impacts of each scenario on five concerns that the community in Steamboat Springs identified as being most important.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.
 
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62).
 
Date issued
2010
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59724
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Urban Studies and Planning.
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