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Power and Control in Disinvested Affordable Housing: San Francisco’s Limited Equity Housing Co-operatives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
The promise of the co-operative housing typology extends beyond providing stable, affordable housing. Co-operatives strive to offer a resident-centered site of democratic participation, where ownership and limited equity ...
Memorable, Legible, and Accessible Cities: Co-Stewarding Historic Preservation and Public Transportation Agendas in Boston and Hong Kong
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
This thesis seeks to understand how planners, designers, and policymakers can identify and leverage shared goals between historic preservation and public transit planning to support a memorable, legible, and accessible ...
The Story of Rubina: Lessons on Self-governance in Peruvian informal settlements and Considerations for Community Land Trusts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
Since the 1990s, the Peruvian government has introduced two policies to address informal settlements' property and housing challenges: the formalization titling policy and the certificate of possession policy. Both have ...
Application of deep learning to land cover classification: practical issues and strategies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)
Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change is a process of essential importance to urban studies and planning. Large-scale databases provide comprehensive records, but in many circumstances, they need to be supplemented or ...
How Cars Took Over America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
America has a love affair with the automobile, as the saying goes. The average American household has 1.88 cars. Songs like “Life is a Highway,” “On the Road Again,” and countless others celebrate the car. Americans have ...
Crossroads: Exploring how micro organizations that leverage design shape urbanism practice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)
Crossroads is an exploration into the role micro organizations (1-10 people) that leverage design play within the greater urbanism field. At large, this research serves to build synergies between creative practitioners ...
Affordable Housing Provision for Workers Constructing Nusantara, the New Capital City of Indonesia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
Indonesia is an important ongoing example of a country relocating its capital city for economic and environmental reasons amid numerous challenges. The new capital city site is located far from existing cities, with limited ...
Disaster Diplomacy: The spatial impact of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
This thesis aims to investigate the spatial implications of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake of Nepal, particularly in the urban municipality of Lalitpur.
I explore how emergency ...
Re-Stitching the Fabric: Urban Highway Removal as anOpportunity for Equitable, Sustainable Transformation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
The detrimental effects of a century of highway construction and use in U.S. cities are clear. From polluting the air, contributing to climate change, encouraging urban sprawl, and entrenching racial and economic injustice ...
Hacer la vida en Ciudad Verde: Bringing Participatory Action Research to Colombia’s Affordable Housing macro-projects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
Housing macro-projects have been central to Colombia’s urbanization tradition over the past century. A new set of laws put forth in the 2010s, and a particular economic chapter in the country’s history have brought a new ...