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Integrating climate, economic, and racial justice through a Boston FutureCorps
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Amidst a rapidly evolving political landscape, with the 2021 Boston Mayoral Election, recently passed Massachusetts State climate policy, and President Biden’s Executive Order to create a Civilian Climate Corps, the City ...
Mandela, Massachusetts: Design Futures for a Proposed City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
In 1986 and 1988 there was an unsuccessful referendum for majority Black neighborhoods across Boston to incorporate and form an independent city called Mandela. The referendum, motivated by widespread dissatisfaction with ...
Power, Risk, and Democratic Control in State-Local Finance: The Effect of State Tax and Expenditure Limits on Municipal Debt and Risk
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Municipal finance is important, if opaque, to the daily lives of people across the United States. Cities and towns provide essential services which are often financed through debt. Over the course of the 20th century, the ...
Nationwide Pedestrian Safety Analysis Using Crash and Survey Data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Pedestrian safety is studied using two approaches: injury severity modeling using NHTSA’s Crash Report Sampling System crash data and administering a nationwide survey on roadway safety topics. The crash data models ...
‘Autogestión’: Community-led Squatting as a Means of Transformative Revitalization of Abandoned Spaces in Puerto Rico
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
This thesis documents and reflects on the emergence of a new form of squatting led by collectives in urban communities across Puerto Rico. This new form of squatting is using squatting beyond a means of survival and more ...
From Rural Ground to Rural Grocery: Designing a local food value chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)
Present-day food systems in the U.S. are fraught with challenges that have spillover effects ranging from economic hardship of agricultural communities, inequitable access to nutritional foods, asymmetrical distribution ...
Re-collective Revolution: A Reclamation of Black Self-Subsistent Economic Tradition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)
The envisioning and deliverance of a collectively liberated future for all marginalized peoples is rooted in a rectified understanding of the redacted history of marginalized peoples. This paper uncovers a history of ...
Dispossessing the public : privatization of open public spaces in Lima, Peru
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The Metropolitan Area of Lima has on average 3.6m² of green area per person, for a total of 10 million inhabitants. Although this is not the most accurate metric, it is the most available proxy to measure and understand ...
People-Centered Planning: A Case Study in Virtual Participatory Design with Chicago Residents
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)
This thesis demonstrates how neighborhood planning decisions can move from the purview of developers, engineers, planners and politicians to community members themselves through participatory design. Amid the stay-at-home ...
Making A Neighborhood Illegal Zoning, Nimbyism, and Housing Justice in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
As the national housing crisis pushes low-income tenants out of urban inner cores, the local land use politics of the peripheral neighborhoods that they move to have taken on great importance. Part historical narrative and ...