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Whereto next? : analyzing livability and accessibility in the later stages of life
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The global population is aging; and municipalities across the globe are striving to better understand the needs and desires of older adults in order to better serve this growing population. Yet existing transportation ...
Code shift : data, governance, and equity in Los Angeles's shared mobility pilots
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Transportation planners suggest that smart mobility systems - cars, bikes, scooters and other vehicles connected to the internet - can advance social equity. While smart mobility systems can help address transport poverty, ...
Development inequity : advancing distributive justice by localizing SDG indicators for municipalities in Chile
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Through examining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a municipal scale in Chile, this thesis demonstrates that localizing the development agenda is required for advancing distributive justice in the country. Because ...
'The Backbone of Chicago's economy" : the Chicago Microlending Institute and the road to financial inclusion for entrepreneurs of color
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Amidst persistent and widening racial wealth divides in their communities, local and state governments across the United States have deployed non-traditional tools to support underserved entrepreneurs of color and build ...
Integrating neighborhoods, segregating power
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Since the 1990's, tenant-based vouchers have exceeded the number of conventional public housing units in the United States. Policies to expand housing choice with mobile vouchers have grown in popularity despite program ...
Provisioning public education : infrastructural violence, school districting, and spatialized inequity in the San Francisco Bay Area
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
With an alarming budget deficit and mounting fiscal pressures, Oakland Unified School District made a contentious and familiar decision in 2019- to close and consolidate schools. The ensuing conflict exposed a deeper ...
The Punto Urban Art Museum in Salem, Massachusetts : a case for shared authority
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
How can art and creative placemaking practice towards social justice? Based in the Point neighborhood of Salem, Massachusetts, North Shore Community Development Coalition's (North Shore CDC) Punto Urban Art Museum (PUAM) ...
Does the siting of neighborhood incarceral facilities influence local police behavior?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This research studies NYPD Stop and Frisk data from before and after the reopening of the Brooklyn Detention Complex in 2012 to determine whether the introduction of carceral facilities to a neighborhood changes policing ...
Energy & the built environment : assessing renewable energy planning in Burlington, Vermont
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Society's dependence on fossil fuels, spawned during the industrial revolution of the 19th century, increased the physical isolation between the sites of energy consumption, and sites of energy production. Rapid population ...
Playing to win : democratic deliberation, planning, and politics in Toronto's civic lottery
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Government institutions across the world are currently experimenting with randomized household-selection engagement methods designed to maximize the diversity and representativeness of their sampled citizen participants. ...