Concord, MA: Old and New
Name Holly Masek, MUP 2013 Project Title Concord, MA: Old and New,…
Department of Urban Planning and Design
Time-Honored Versus Bigger and Better: Critical and Strategic Conservation in Post-Katrina Mississippi
by Christopher L. Cosper (MDesS ’13) Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August…
Cambridge Community Development Department, Cambridge, MA
Laura Gilmore (MUP 2013), spent her 2012 summer working for the Environment and Transportation division…
Chaebol Urbanism
Chaebol Urbanism: Diversified Corporate Conglomerates as Agents of Urban Transformation in the Seoul Metropolitan Region…
City of Everett, Everett, MA
Ksenya Benderskaya’s (MUP ’13) flagship project for the City of Everett was to create a preliminary…
Linking the Hill to New Haven's Central Corridor
Name Fabiana Meacham, MUP 2013 Project Title Linking the Hill to New Haven’s Central Corridor,…
Moving Centers, Shared Lines. There is no post-industrial city.
by Savina Romanos (MAUD ’13) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD ’13) In October 1949, Mao…
New Haven 2050
Re-connect Open Space Celebrating a Knowledge-based Urban Life Name Qingnan Liu, MUP 2013…
Rediscovering glories
by Fabiana Araujo (MAUD ’13) The design proposed for Plaça de les Glories a aims to…
Sanriku Project, Minamisanriku, Japan
A year out from last year’s tsunami, attitudes were very different. As part of the…
Solo Kota Kita, Indonesia
Alykhan Mohamed (MUP 2013) travelled to Indonesia for a summer internship with Solo…
Somerville Community Corporation, Somerville, MA
Tessa Perry (MUP ’13) worked at Somerville Community Corporation (SCC), where her primary focus was to research other states with…
The Future of US Mortgage Finance
A Public Proposition Name Pamela Lee, MUP 2012 Project Title The Future…
The School of the Year 2030 in Rio de Janeiro
Urban Development in Complexo de Alemão Name Raquel Fernández Gutiérrez, MAUD 2013 Project…
The Urban Restructuring of Metropolitan Detroit
Name Catherine Tang, MAUD 2012 Project Title The Urban Restructuring of Metropolitan Detroit, Thesis Instructors…
TOC: Transit Oriented City, Second Semester Core
by Holly Masek (MUP ’13)
Assessing the relationship between urban design and urban climate in selected Bronx neighborhoods
Research assessing the relationship between urban design features and urban climate in densely populated neighborhoods…
Extreme Urbanism I: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Back Bay of Mumbai—underdeveloped, sandwiched between high rise office and residential blocks, historic buildings,…
New Norc City
Names Jack Becker, MAUD 2012 Nicolas Rivard, MAUD 2012 Project Title New Norc City,…
South America Project
The South America Project (SAP) is a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses…
The People’s Downtown, First Semester Core Studio
by Edward (Mike) Healy (MUP ’13) Boston’s Fenway-Kenmore/Longwood district hosts an array of assets that…
Campus in Motion: A Sports Science Research Institute for Coney Island
by Amy Fung (MAUD ’12) and Danish Kurani (MAUD ’12) This project addresses a neglected and…
Designing Process: Creating long-term replicable community building solutions in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The earthquake of January 12, 2010 turned the already critical shortage of housing in Haiti…
A Better City
Catherine Tang (MAUD ’12) worked with A Better City (ABC), an independent, membership-based, non-profit organization…
[Re]Working: Brooklyn's Urban/Industrial Waterfront
by Melissa Alexander (MAUD 2013) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD 2013) 21st century American cities are facing…
Catalytic Communities, Rio de Janeiro
Jake Cummings (MUP ’12) spent his 2011 summer working with Catalytic Communities, a non-profit NGO…
Ethno-Religious Militias in Jakarta
Justin Stern (MUP ’12) spent his summer in Jakarta, Indonesia working with BAPPENAS, the National…
HealthBridge's Livable Cities Program, Hanoi, Vietnam
Chris Kuschel (MUP ’12) received funding for travel costs from the Community Service Fellowship Program—International Travel…
Appraisal of the Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project and Its Environs in Seoul, South Korea
Although well known in Korean and East Asian urban design and planning circles, the Cheonggyecheon…
196,925 Meters: Mapping the Border of Mexico City
by Laura Janka Zires (MAUD ’11) and Victor Muñoz Sanz (MAUD ’11) 196,925 Meters: Mapping…
UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya
by Iman M Ansari (MAUD ’10) and Marta Anna Nowak (MArch ’12) 2009 International Travel CSFP…
China Urban Research Fund Project
At this juncture, China appears to be at a mid-point in its present period of…
Project Khayelitsha, South Africa
Laura Shipman (MAUD ’08), Ashley Heeren (MArch 09), and Patrick Stowe Jones (MArch ’09) received travel…
Territorialization in the Region of Romagna, Italy
In large measure, territorialization is an old and venerable process by which land is settled,…
Healthy Environments
How the built environment affects physical activity and how changes in the environment can promote…
Environments for Walking and Cycling
Initiatives to spur more walking and cycling have become increasingly prominent as one strategy communities…
Better Suburbs
Beyond the core of every large urban area is a band of development called suburbs.
Democratizing Tech: A Co-Operative for Overtown, Miami
Sidra Fatima (MUP ’19) & Stefano Trevisan (MUP ’19) Our project explored the all-too-familiar narrative…
Design Trust for Public Space, New York, NY
During the summer of 2012, Melissa Alexander (MAUD 2013) served as a Program Associate at The…
Urbanization in China and North-East Asia Region
According to some estimates, China’s gross domestic product seems likely to increase substantially during the…