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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. ...
Keeping the authority public : public housing preservation and organizational restructuring with the Rental Assistance Demonstration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The Rental Assistance Demonstration ("RAD") program is a controversial federal effort to address public housing's financial crisis by opening it up to private investment and recapitalization; in essence, to mortgage public ...
Restoration refocused : an evaluation of the Central Everglades Planning Project
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In 2000, President Clinton signed legislation authorizing the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a $7.8 billion, 68 project, 30-year effort to restore one of the most unique and diverse ecosystems in the ...
Land wars : the political economy of Nigeria's displacement crisis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
"They were burning our houses in the night. We lost everything. Then the policeman came, and the people thought they were here for our security. Until they started shooting." - Resident of Ilu Birin, Lagos, Nigeria. Evicted ...
Depolarizing the process : residential redevelopment and Seattle's design review
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In Seattle, a city with a robust public process around issues of urban growth, recent rapid redevelopment in low-rise neighborhoods has intensified the public debate over design and density. Conflict over individual ...
Evaluating the diverse impacts of megaprojects : the case of Forest City in Johor, Malaysia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Large urban megaprojects costing billions of US dollars, erected with the promise of great economic benefits but controversial due to their environmental and social impacts, are becoming more common throughout the world. ...
Perspectives on the Ridesourcing Revolution : surveying individual attitudes toward Uber and Lyft to inform urban transportation policymaking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Media coverage of ridesourcing services such as Uber and Lyft has described a rivalry between new technology and the established taxi industry. Individual users and non-users of ridesourcing, however, may have more nuanced ...
Promoting alternative dispute resolution in the Massachusetts Land Court : current perceptions and use
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The Massachusetts Land Court is overburdened. More than 15,000 new cases are filed each year, with the even more cases carried over from previous years. Each emotionally taxing case can cost litigants between $50,000- ...
Nature-Based Coastal Adaptation: A Comparative Assessment to Inform Effective Implementation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
As coastal adaptation planning becomes the new normal, governments have increasingly shifted a significant portion of new infrastructure from hardened “gray” structures toward natural and “nature-based” solutions (NbS): ...