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 City and Regional Planning
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Marginalized youth often lack sufficient access to quality, safe, and diverse spaces that support their holistic development due to environmental traumas such as poverty, disinvestment, pollution, violent crime, and substance use.
Thesis: Amanda Cecilia Peña
Thesis Amanda Cecilia Peña
By using a manifesto and a set of questions, planners can engage in a discussion about not just what they're planning, but also how they're planning it, and who will benefit.
Power/Practice/Place: Responding to Vulnerability, Philly to Baltimore
CPLN 7030
I argue that self-organized arts spaces must be acknowledged, accommodated, and planned for, and the coexistence of their safety and creativity must not only be allowed but also enabled.
Thesis: Marian April Glebes
Thesis Marian April Glebes
By examining the history of intervention and redevelopment in Dharavi and evaluating current policies, the thesis aims to contribute to a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the complexities of urban development in rapidly changing Indian cities.
Thesis: Christina Rose Michael
Thesis Christina Rose Michael
These empirical findings of disparities in accessing DE and EL that are associated with safe driving skills development motivate planning interventions to address equity issues in access to DE, such as subsidy programs that ease the barriers for lower-SES teenagers and families.
Thesis: Jasmine Siyu Wu
Thesis Jasmine Siyu Wu
The plan for Jimani aims to guide urban growth towards reconnecting fragmented neighborhoods, mitigating sprawl, and improving pedestrian conditions by providing consolidated housing, green buffer zones, siphon protection, and a public transit network.
Healing Borders: Dominican Republic
CPLN 7020
Sea-level rise in St. Croix threatens both human and natural infrastructure..
St. Croix: Addressing Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in the US Virgin Islands
CPLN 7010
Community outreach programs, such as sign-up events, can increase bike-share usage in neighborhoods, and for people with language barriers.
Boston’s Transportation Future: Safety, Enforcement, and Equity
CPLN 7050
This work contends that the federal government can play a more active role in bridging the transmission supply gap by leveraging its land for transmission siting in the region, and, particularly, its land reserved for coal operations.
Thesis: Lindsey M. Hover
Thesis Lindsey M. Hover
An analysis of the Pedestrian Friendliness Index and Transit Walkshed reveals the lower quality of sidewalk infrastructure and metro station accessibility in the Corridor.
Anacostia Riverfront Corridor
CPLN 707
The study finds that tightening housing markets are decreasing the supply of affordable rental units available through the private market and negatively impacting the housing outcomes of the homelessness response system.
Thesis: Chris Brzovic
Thesis Chris Brzovic
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Interdisciplinary Independent Studio: Jackson Plumlee and Jamaica Reese-Julien
Independent Studio: Plumlee and Reese-Julien
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