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Feb 27 2025 Past Event PhD Lunch & Lightning Talks Urban Development

Fellow in Urban Leadership Faith Applegate

Anchor Institutions

Affiliated PhD Student Rachel Bondra

Fellow in the Initiative in the History of the Built Environment Doctoral Student in City and Regional Planning

Urban Development

Publication June 20, 2023 Policy Brief: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises State & Local Finance

Feb 28 2023 Past Event Nation's Metropolis: Book Talk and Discussion Urban Development

Publication May 26, 2022 City Mutable: The United States Census Bureau’s Quest to Define the City, 1850-1930 The idea that the population of the United States first became majority urban in 1920 has been repeated so often that it has become “fact,” uncritically reprinted in high school textbooks, academic works, reports of major research organizations, popular urbanist nonfiction, and more. However, this widely accepted “fact” warrants a reevaluation. What does the word urban mean and who defined it? Urban Development

Oct 26 2021 Past Event Redlined Forever: The Racist Past of Today's Land Use Regulations Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 Cities and Epidemics in History Dense urban populations have fostered and accelerated epidemics since at least the Plague of Athens in the fifth century BCE, and epidemics have in turn reshaped urban spaces for almost as long. David Barnes

Faculty Fellow Zhongjie Lin

Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning

Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

Faculty Fellow Akira Drake Rodriguez

Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design

Article May 21, 2018 Black in White Space Elijah Anderson writes that a spate of highly publicized recent incidents has highlighted the frequent racial targeting that blacks face as they live, work, study and otherwise navigate “white spaces.” Elijah Anderson Urban Development

Fellow Sidney Wong

Senior Advisor, Econsult Solutions, Inc

Urban Development State & Local Finance

Faculty Fellow Francesca Ammon

Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design

Faculty Fellow Wendell Pritchett

James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education

Urban Development Housing , + 2

Scholar Lawrence Vale

Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning;

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Scholar Catherine Tumber

Visiting Scholar, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University

Scholar Brent D. Ryan

Vice Provost and Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Scholar Rolf Pendall

Professor, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Urban Development Housing

Fellow Sheela Patel

Founder and Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3

Scholar Scott Gabriel Knowles

Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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