Upzoning: Promises, Perils and Possibilities
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Contours of Crisis: Critical Infrastructure, Information Governance and Remote Work in New York City during COVID-19
Advisor: Weiping Wu
Immigrant Placemaking and Urban Space: Southeast Asian American San Francisco
Advisor: Malo Hutson
Missed Opportunity: Three Baseline Evaluations of Federal Opportunity Zones Policy
Advisor: Lance Freeman
The spatial politics of urban character: Analyzing the roles of historic districts in neighborhood land use activism to resist displacement, New York City and Los Angeles, 2000-2020
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Cycles of (Dis)-Investment: Federal Intervention and the Long-term Impacts of Heterogeneous Development
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Team Rules: How City Officials Tweak Urban Futures through ‘Gray Institutions’ of Daily Practice in Land Use Permitting and Enforcement
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
The Better Way: Transit Service and Demand in Metropolitan Toronto, 1953-1990
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
Racial and Spatial Disparities in Fintech Mortgage Lending in the United States
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Urbanisme in Ayiti: Diffusion, Decentralization & Disaster
Advisor: Clara Irazabal
Mixité de Façade: How Historically Disinvested Neighborhoods Negotiate Inclusionary Zoning in Paris and New York
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Cost Overruns and Schedule Delays of Major Projects: Why We Need Reference Class Forecasting
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Housing Publics: Contested Approaches to Public Housing Redevelopment in New York City
Advisor: Lance Freeman
An Analysis of the Community Participation Process in New York City – Focusing on its Effectiveness, Representativeness, and Inclusiveness
Advisor: Lance Freeman
State Public Authorities, Local Politics, and Democratic Planning: New York’s Empire State Development Corporation
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
The Political Economy of Value Capture: How the Financialization of Hudson Yards Created a Private Rail Line for the Rich
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
Multi-Scalar Deliberative Transportation Planning: How London and Paris Made Way for Buses
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
Building on Local Successes: The Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant Program and Its Lessons for Federal Climate Policy
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
The Transport Planning Process: A Political and Institutional Analysis
Advisor: David Andrew King
Microfinance Assemblage in China: Production, Maintenance, Transformation and Deterioration
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
Anti-Carbonism or Carbon Exceptionalism: A Discursive Project of Low-Carbon City in Shenzhen, China
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
Multi-Level Governance of Agricultural Land in Japan: Farmers’ Perspectives and Responses to Farmland Banking
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
City Unplanning: The Techno-Political Economy of Privately-Financed Highways in Lima
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
Politics by Other Means: Economic Expertise, Power, and Global Development Finance Reform
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
Electricity Market Reforms and Renewable Energy: The Case of Wind and Solar in Brazil
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
Planning for Equitable Neighborhood Change: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of 80 Cities’ Displacement Mitigation Approaches
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Calming New York: An Examination of Neighborhood Slow Zones
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Strategic Planning and Urban Development in New York City, Paris and Sao Paulo: 2001-2012
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
Essays on Aging Americans’ Travel Preferences: Behavioral Survey Analyses
Advisor: Lance Freeman
An Informal Transit System Hiding in Plain Sight: Brooklyn’s Dollar Vans and Transportation Planning and Policy in New York City
Advisor: David King
Institutional Resilience and Informality: The Case of Land Rights Mechanisms in
Greater Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
The Rule of Choice: How economic theories from the 1950s became technologically embedded, politically contested urban policy in New York City from 2002-2013
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
How the Poor Afford Public Transportation: The Case of New York City
Advisor: Eliott Sclar
Reconstructing Early Modern Disaster Management in Puerto Rico: Development and Planning Examined Through the Lens of Hurricane San Ciriaco (1899), San Felipe (1928), and Santa Clara (1956)
Advisor: Jorge Otero-Pailos
Food Access in Brooklyn: Environmental Justice Meets Biopower
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
Democracy and Discrimination: Analyzing Diverging Local Responses to Immigration
Advisor: Peter Marcuse
Industrialization Pathways to Human Development: Industrial Clusters, Institutions, and Poverty in Nigeria
Advisor: Smita Srinivas
Un-traded Interdependencies as a Useful Theory of Regional Economic Development: A Comparative Study of Innovation in Dublin and Beijing
Advisor: Susan Fainstein
Bus Rapid Transit Planning Processes in Delhi and Ahmedabad
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
Institutional Change in Urban Environmentalism: A Case Study Analysis of State-Level Land Use Legislation in California and New York
Advisor: Robert Beauregard
Reinventing Infrastructure Economics: Theory and Empirics
Advisor: Hans Smit
Marketing Marginalized Neighborhoods: Tourism and Leisure in the 21st Century
Advisor: Susan Fainstein
The Political Economy of Inclusionary Zoning: Adoption, Implementation, and Neighborhood Effects
Advisor: Lance Freeman
Strategic Parallels: A Class Comparison of South Asian American Immigrant Labor Organizing
Advisor: Peter Marcuse
Boxed In: How Intermodalism Enabled Destructive Interport Competition
Advisor: Peter Marcuse
Civic Environmental Stewardship as a Form of Governance in New York City
Advisor: Dana Fisher
Evaluating the Impact of the Urban Heat Island on Public Health: Spatial and Social Determinants of Heat-Related Health Outcomes in New York City
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
Politics, Planning, and Power: Reorganizing and Redeveloping Public Housing in Chicago, Illinois
Advisor: Susan Fainstein
Understanding Foreign Direct Investment in the Context of Entrepreneurial China
Advisor: Elliott Sclar
New Doors to Development: Remittances and the Housing Industry in Colombia
Advisor: Elliott Sclar