It’s iffy, but here’s hoping he likes it. He has a woody for specific applications and apparently for the scientific method applied to the extent possible to urban studies.
I will be making a comparison of the transportation corridors for pittsburgh’s east busway and southside rail cooridor between the 80 and 90 censuses, contrasted with another transportation corridor which was well established within the greater pittsburgh area by that time and which did not experience major transportation infrastructure upgrades in the same time period. In particular, I will be examining the effects on commute time, land values or unit rental prices, and housing tenure in the travelsheds surrounding the east busway, the T, and I-376. I suspect that commute times will decrease, land values or rental prices will increase. I hypothesize that housing tenure analysis will demonstrate a significant change in residents at the time.
I intend to use data from the decennial census, and attempt to access resources from Pittsburgh’s public transportation agency, the Port Authority of Allegheny county, and possibly the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Whats your causal mechanism? Whats driving those changes?