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• Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Findings, Strategies, and Design Decision Support Technologies

  Michael West Mehaffy

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  The research reported in this dissertation contains three complementary and overlapping parts:

  One, “findings”: It assesses the factors of urban morphology that contribute to increased rates of greenhouse gas emissions per capita, and the ways they interact. It finds a significant but underrepresented set of factors, distinct from but relating the factors at the individual building scale and the scale of regional transportation systems.

  Two, “strategies”:...