Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:34:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon_logo-32x32.jpg 32 32 /projects/indicators-of-neighborhood-distress/ /projects/indicators-of-neighborhood-distress/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:43 +0000 https://commons.epicn.org/projects/indicators-of-neighborhood-distress/ Read More... from Indicators of Neighborhood Distress

]]> Is there a geographic pattern of crimes in Howard County? Are these crimes clustered? Any hot spot?

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]]> Are there any spatial patterns of assaults in Howard County? Are there any clusters, hotspots or outliers?

]]> /projects/assault-incidents-in-howard-county-maryland/feed/ 0 /projects/signage-safety-road-signs-pedestrian-crossing-conditions-and-hit-run-police-calls-in-howard-county-maryland/ /projects/signage-safety-road-signs-pedestrian-crossing-conditions-and-hit-run-police-calls-in-howard-county-maryland/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:40 +0000 https://commons.epicn.org/projects/signage-safety-road-signs-pedestrian-crossing-conditions-and-hit-run-police-calls-in-howard-county-maryland/ Read More... from Signage Safety: Road Signs, Pedestrian Crossing Conditions, and Hit & Run Police Calls in Howard County, Maryland

]]> How do road signage and pedestrian crossing conditions affect the prevalence of hit & run police calls in Howard County, Maryland? More specifically, do signs encouraging driver safety and awareness reduce hit & run calls? Do marked pedestrian crossing points and lower speed limits reduce hit & run calls?

]]> /projects/signage-safety-road-signs-pedestrian-crossing-conditions-and-hit-run-police-calls-in-howard-county-maryland/feed/ 0 /projects/gis-analysis-of-crime-in-howard-county-maryland-destruction-of-properties-and-break-in/ /projects/gis-analysis-of-crime-in-howard-county-maryland-destruction-of-properties-and-break-in/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:40 +0000 https://commons.epicn.org/projects/gis-analysis-of-crime-in-howard-county-maryland-destruction-of-properties-and-break-in/ Read More... from GIS Analysis of Crime in Howard County, Maryland: Destruction of Properties and Break-in

]]> Is there any spatial pattern of destruction of properties and break-ins in Howard County? Are those crime incidents are clustered in Howard County?

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]]> The ten undergraduate students in this government and policy class were asked to examine homelessness in Howard County as part of the PALS program. Each of them researched the extent of the problem, the services in place to address it, how homelessness is addressed in comparable U.S. counties, and proposals that Howard County could adapt. Each of the ten papers thus overlaps some with others, especially in their description of current County conditions and programs. Their comparative assessment of comparable county programs, however, yields over a dozen examples of interest to Howard County. It is in their recommendations and proposals that the papers will be of greatest interest and use to the County. Numerous ideas are presented and the reader focused on the “bottom line” can peruse these sections of each paper to glean ideas.

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]]> Fulton South is an 77 acre site owned by Howard County at the intersection of Route 29 and Rocky Gorge Reservoir. Howard County plans to create a community park at the Fulton South site. The Fulton South Conceptual Plan is the result of a Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) collaboration between Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks and a team of graduate students in Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland. The design team was asked to prepare a detailed site analysis and two master plans for the site that include connectivity with the local community, ample and diverse recreational opportunities, and valuable habitat conservation/expansion.

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]]> Planned communities are one way that people have attempted to influence land use patterns and living situations to accommodate specific sociocultural, economic, and environmental needs and desires from the very start of settlement. Columbia, Maryland, a planned community, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017. At its beginning, James Rouse and his planning team used a sociological approach to develop Columbia, and help achieve its original goals, including: the creation of a fully, self-sustaining city where residents could both live and work, respecting and integrating the natural environment into the built environment, sustainably accommodating the future growth of the community, integrating mixed income and racially diverse families, and making a profit. Almost 50 years on, Columbia, via Columbia Association, is interested in understanding the staying power of the original goals as it looks forward and plans for Columbiaâ€s future. In Fall 2015, Columbia Association, PALS (Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability), and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland collaborated to collect oral histories from Columbiaâ€s residents on their experiences of living in the community over the past 50 years. Nine undergraduate students and one graduate student taking ANTH 468O/689O: Researching Environment & Culture, under the direction of Dr. L. Jen Shaffer in the Department of Anthropology, interviewed 28 men and women residents of Columbia. An additional four interviews from Columbia Associationâ€s archives were added to the transcripts of the collected oral histories for further analysis. The analysis of the interview texts explored residents†experiences of economic, demographic, sociocultural and environmental change over the past 50 years and examined responses to such change in the effort to identify ideas for developing sustainable plans to respond to future changes in Columbia. All audio and video recordings of the oral history interviews are archived at Columbia Archives at Columbia Association.

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]]> What are spatial patterns of police call incidents, especially hate bias and hit & run incidents in Howard County? Is there a relationship between establishments with liquor license and these crimes?

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]]> Are thefts and assaults more likely to occur in specific areas in Howard County?

]]> /projects/howard-county-gis-analysis-thefts-and-assaults/feed/ 0 /projects/flooding-hazard-in-howard-county-causes-and-green-infrastructure-solutions/ /projects/flooding-hazard-in-howard-county-causes-and-green-infrastructure-solutions/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:38 +0000 https://commons.epicn.org/projects/flooding-hazard-in-howard-county-causes-and-green-infrastructure-solutions/ Read More... from Flooding Hazard in Howard County: Causes and Green Infrastructure Solutions

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