A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Harvesting Blue-Green Algae in Brown County, Wisconsin

This report provides a cost-benefit analysis of the removal of blue-green algae (BGA)from the waterways of Brown County. BGAis a common but toxic bacteriaprone to rapid and uncontrolled growth.Itcan be found in waters around the world,includingthose inBrown County. These algal bloomshave become increasingly frequent and sizeable in Brown County and pose threats to human and […]

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Lifecycle Cost Benefit Analysis Project- Road to Smart City

The utilidor is an environmentally and financially sustainable infrastructural solution for subsurface public right of way (PROW) congestion, known as the “subsurface spaghetti” problem, that has been created by utilities’ historical ad hoc practice of direct subsurface burial of transmission infrastructure. With the appropriate financial structure, the utilidor solution can capture the value of the […]

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Nonprofit and Government Partnerships:Addressing Specific Needs of the City of Lemon Grove through Nonprofit Collaboration

The research in this report was created through a partnership between the City of Lemon Grove and the Sage Project at San Diego State University during the spring of 2017. This research was completed by students in an upper division Public Administration class, titled Nonprofit Organizations and Government. This work sought to understand how the […]

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Designing National City

Five teams of graduate students in the Urban Design and Land Use Planning Studio class at San Diego State University prepared design concepts for various project sites around National City, California. In this project, students and faculty collaborated with city representatives to identify core areas of potential “smart growth” development opportunities within National City. The […]

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An Assessment of Homeless Individuals’ Perceptions of Service Accessibility in Downtown San Diego

This report details the findings of research commissioned by the City of San Diego and carried out by student-researchers at San Diego State University on the issue of homelessness in downtown San Diego. We provide a snapshot of the perceptions of the homeless residents of the East Village neighborhood of downtown San Diego in Spring […]

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Resident and Nonresident Views on Potential Improvements to the City of Lemon Grove

This report details the findings of research commissioned by the City of San Diego and carried out by student-researchers at San Diego State University on the issue of ways to improve the City of Lemon Grove and what improvements participants were most highly interested in. To answer this question, we interviewed both nonresidents and residents […]

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Stable Neighborhood Action Plan Update

Update the City’s Stable Neighborhood Action Plan (SNAP) to evaluate neighborhood improvements since creating the original SNAP document in 2005. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Resilient Communities Project Contact Info University Faculty Contact Geoff Maas Public Affairs Affiliate Faculty Member maas0021@umn.edu Local Government / Community Contact Emily Carr Development […]

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Exploring the Use of the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program for Multifamily Buildings

This project was completed as part of the 2018-2019 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Ramsey County. The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program is a loan program that provides financing for energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy retrofits for commercial, industrial, and multifamily residential properties. PACE helps property owners overcome the challenge of gathering […]

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