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Can state and local basic income policies support planning for equity?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Interest in basic income has been rising as more and more cities and places undertake basic income pilots, seams in existing supports become more and more apparent, and racial and class-based disparities widen. Yet the ...
Alleviating Carmageddon with a research-driven rapid transit approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
A growing number of cities and metropolitan areas in the United States are experiencing historically high rates of congestion on roads and highways. Many of the same places have extensive, although not always well maintained ...
Mobility as a public service : integrating civil rights laws in partnerships between transit agencies and ride-hailing companies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Recently, a number of public transportation agencies have formed partnerships with Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft. Proponents of these collaborations emphasize their potential to expand the ...
Marginal mobility : public transit infrastructure for precarious settlements in Metropolitan Buenos Aires
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The human right to mobility is a primary, yet underdeveloped factor in the literature and practice surrounding urban infrastructure development, especially for those living and working outside of formalized legal, political, ...
Building community resilience to climate change with facilitated, collaborative dialogue : evaluating the VCAPS process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
As communities around the world experience greater impacts from climate change, collaborative adaptation planning efforts are crucial to preparing for the future. This research examines one of these efforts, a pilot of the ...
New prescriptions? : nonprofit hospital and health system charitable spending on housing as a social determinant of health
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
There is an emerging consensus that socioeconomic, environmental, and structural factors--known as the social determinants of health (SDOH)--are stronger drivers of health outcomes than genetics or clinical care. In ...
Making change legible : public notices and the visual communication of planning in the U.S.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
By making local government more visible, could well-designed rezoning notification signs encourage engagement with development processes? This thesis is a comparative study of posted public notice for rezoning actions in ...
Daylighting pathways to good jobs in California's solar industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This paper identifies the opportunities for, and challenges to, creating good quality jobs for socioeconomically disadvantaged workers through mid-size solar photovoltaic projects in California. Recent policy proposals in ...
Fault lines : the legacy of urban renewal in Hudson, NY
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Hudson, New York, has been carved by a series of historical forces that continue to shape present-day physical and narrative representations of the city. Today, the local landscape reflects two distinct communities contained ...
Urban tree canopy governance and redlined neighborhoods: an analysis of five cities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Trees provide many environmental, social, and economic benefits. Urban neighborhoods do not have equal access to trees, however. Recent scholarship shows that historically redlined neighborhoods, as demarcated by the Home ...