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Determinants and Interventions for Physical Activity Adherence During COVID-19: A Global Study Using Machine Learning Approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
Physical activity (PA) is crucial for maintaining both physical and mental health in urban and regional settings. However, public health hazards, such as pandemics, extreme temperatures, and air pollution, pose challenges ...
Implementing (Up)Zoning for Affordability: A Seattle Case Study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)
Today, U.S. cities are continuing to grapple with housing shortages and the affordability crisis. In the United States, as of 2020, 30% of households were cost-burdened and 14% were severely cost-burdened, paying more than ...
Any Port in a Storm: UK Freeports as a Typology of Governance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
In 2019, the United Kingdom announced a new initiative to set up several free trade zones across its four nations. While many analysts have viewed freeports through the lens of the UK's messy divorce from the European ...
A Participatory Photo-Mapping (PPM) framework to observe and reflect on the transformation of public space: the case of the Paseo España Environmental Corridor in Bucaramanga, Colombia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
Public participation in urban planning processes is key to ensuring projects can be successful, can address community needs, and can be sustainable into the future. The current sociodemographic and political circumstances ...
Design for More Equitable Neighborhood Adaptation: Climate Resiliency and Public Space Planning in U.S. Border Colonias
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
The relationship between environmental harms and the political and economic marginalization of communities cannot be easily disentangled in today’s world. Consequently, this thesis reexamines the relationships between ...
Welcome to Cambodia Town
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
Cambodian American communities are at an inflection point as the generation that arrived in the U.S as refugees start to retire, and the younger generation often have other aspirations than to carry on their parents’ ...
Universities, Communities, and Service-Learning for Urban Development: Rethinking the Work of Kaya Clínica in Maputo, Mozambique
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)
Urban areas in low-income countries are confronted with major challenges, including poverty, urban deterioration, unemployment, and informality. With the low capacity of local governments to respond to the increasing demands ...
Collaboration in Unlikely Spaces: The Characteristics and Promise of Successful Collaboration Among Affordable Housing and Environmental Conservation Proponents
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
There is a decreasing amount of available land and competing priorities for the use of it. Land value appreciation and the effects of climate change reduce the amount of viable land at affordable prices. Sectors and ...
Art, Repair, and Spatial Justice in Boston's Chinatown and Seattle's International District
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)
There is a growing overlap between the fields of urban planning, art, and social justice. Projects within the realms of urban planning and socially engaged art seek to bring about changes that redistribute socially valued ...
Understanding Housing Supply under Stringent Energy-efficiency Regulations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
Massachusetts's commitment to a 50% emissions reduction by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050 is reflected in the Green Communities Act of 2008, which requires the adoption of the Stretch Energy Code for every municipality ...