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Urban Studies and Planning - Ph.D. / Sc.D.

 

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  • Cultivating risk : weather insurance, technology and financialization in India 
    Sheth, Alpen Suresh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Climate change, technological innovation, and financialization are three of the most transformative processes shaping spatial planning and policymaking. Yet, each of these macro-structural processes and their consequences ...
  • Three essays on urban economics 
    Rolheiser, Lyndsey (Lyndsey Anne) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    The three chapters contained in this dissertation represent a body of work concerned with ubiquitous municipal issues that affect the economic health, vibrancy, and stability of municipalities. These issues are generated ...
  • To and fro : digital data-driven analyses of pedestrian mobility in urban spaces 
    Vanky, Anthony P. (Anthony Phong) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Understanding how environmental attributes can influence the behavior of pedestrians is of concern for public health officials, transportation engineers, and urban planners. To what degree, if any, do these various ...
  • A new climate for regionalism : metropolitan experiments in climate change adaptation 
    Shi, Linda, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Climate change threatens the function and even existence of coastal cities, requiring them to adapt by preparing for near-term risks and reorienting long-term development. Most policy and academic interest in the governance ...
  • Urban spatial structure, housing markets, and resilience to natural hazards 
    Kim, Chun Il (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    This dissertation consists of three essays on urban structure, housing, and environment. The first paper contributes to the existing debate on the co-location hypothesis by devising a proximity measure and controlling for ...
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