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Ph.D. in Urban Planning

Dissertations

2024


Stefan Chavez-Norgaard

Incremental Vernacular Planning: Resident Repurposing of the Apartheid Built Environment in a Former South African ‘Bantustan’
Advisor: Weiping Wu

Jennifer Davis

Upzoning: Promises, Perils and Possibilities
Advisor: Lance Freeman

Younghyun Kim

Place-based Transition towards a Circular Economy: Proximity Relations, Entrepreneurial Agencies, and Knowledge Intermediation in Making Fashion Circular
Advisor: Malo Hutson

Helena Rong

Governance in the Age of Web3: An Institutional Analysis of Blockchain-Based Governance
Advisor: Weiping Wu

2023


Gayatri Kawlra

Contours of Crisis: Critical Infrastructure, Information Governance and Remote Work in New York City during COVID-19
Advisor: Weiping Wu

Minh Nguyen

Immigrant Placemaking and Urban Space: Southeast Asian American San Francisco
Advisor: Malo Hutson

Michael Snidal

Missed Opportunity: Three Baseline Evaluations of Federal Opportunity Zones Policy
Advisor: Lance Freeman


2022


Jenna Dublic-Boc

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

Wenfei Xu

Cycles of (Dis)-Investment: Federal Intervention and the Long-term Impacts of Heterogeneous Development
Advisor: Lance Freeman


2021


Bernadette Baird-Zars

Team Rules: How City Officials Tweak Urban Futures through ‘Gray Institutions’ of Daily Practice in Land Use Permitting and Enforcement
Advisor: Elliott Sclar

Jonathan English

The Better Way: Transit Service and Demand in Metropolitan Toronto, 1953-1990
Advisor: Elliott Sclar

Tyler Haupert ​

Racial and Spatial Disparities in Fintech Mortgage Lending in the United States
Advisor: Lance Freeman

Sophonie Joseph

Urbanisme in Ayiti: Diffusion, Decentralization & Disaster
Advisor: Clara Irazabal

Magda Maaoui

Mixité de Façade: How Historically Disinvested Neighborhoods Negotiate Inclusionary Zoning in Paris and New York
Advisor: Lance Freeman

Jung Eun Park

Cost Overruns and Schedule Delays of Major Projects: Why We Need Reference Class Forecasting
Advisor: Lance Freeman

Valerie Stahl

Housing Publics: Contested Approaches to Public Housing Redevelopment in New York City
Advisor: Lance Freeman


2020


Hyun Hye Bae

An Analysis of the Community Participation Process in New York City – Focusing on its Effectiveness, Representativeness, and Inclusiveness
Advisor: Lance Freeman

Elizabeth Marcello

State Public Authorities, Local Politics, and Democratic Planning: New York’s Empire State Development Corporation
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

Danielle Petretta

The Political Economy of Value Capture: How the Financialization of Hudson Yards Created a Private Rail Line for the Rich
Advisor: Elliott Sclar

Rosalie Ray

Multi-Scalar Deliberative Transportation Planning: How London and Paris Made Way for Buses
Advisor: Elliott Sclar

Siobhan Watson

Building on Local Successes: The Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant Program and Its Lessons for Federal Climate Policy
Advisor: Elliott Sclar


2019


Lauren Ames Fischer

The Transport Planning Process: A Political and Institutional Analysis
Advisor: David Andrew King

Linying He

Microfinance Assemblage in China: Production, Maintenance, Transformation and Deterioration
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

Yunjing Li

Anti-Carbonism or Carbon Exceptionalism: A Discursive Project of Low-Carbon City in Shenzhen, China
Advisor: Elliott Sclar

Maiko Nishi

Multi-Level Governance of Agricultural Land in Japan: Farmers’ Perspectives and Responses to Farmland Banking
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

Matteo Stiglich

City Unplanning: The Techno-Political Economy of Privately-Financed Highways in Lima
Advisor: Elliott Sclar

2018


Jigar Bhatt

Politics by Other Means: Economic Expertise, Power, and Global Development Finance Reform
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

Amanda Bradshaw

Electricity Market Reforms and Renewable Energy: The Case of Wind and Solar in Brazil
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

Marie-Adele Cassola

Planning for Equitable Neighborhood Change: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of 80 Cities’ Displacement Mitigation Approaches
Advisor: Lance Freeman

Jonas Xaver Hagen

Calming New York: An Examination of Neighborhood Slow Zones
Advisor: Lance Freeman

Bruno Lobo Bispo de Graca

Strategic Planning and Urban Development in New York City, Paris and Sao Paulo: 2001-2012
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

Xiaohong Pan

Essays on Aging Americans’ Travel Preferences: Behavioral Survey Analyses
Advisor: Lance Freeman

2017


Eric Goldwyn

An Informal Transit System Hiding in Plain Sight: Brooklyn’s Dollar Vans and Transportation Planning and Policy in New York City
Advisor: David King


2016


Julie Touber

Institutional Resilience and Informality: The Case of Land Rights Mechanisms in Greater Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

John West

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


2015


Alexis Perrotta

How the Poor Afford Public Transportation: The Case of New York City
Advisor: Eliott Sclar

Ingrid Olivo

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

Dory Kornfeld

Food Access in Brooklyn: Environmental Justice Meets Biopower
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

Justin Steil

Democracy and Discrimination: Analyzing Diverging Local Responses to Immigration
Advisor: Peter Marcuse


2014


Oyebank Oyeyinka

Industrialization Pathways to Human Development: Industrial Clusters, Institutions, and Poverty in Nigeria
Advisor: Smita Srinivas


2013


John Powers

Un-traded Interdependencies as a Useful Theory of Regional Economic Development: A Comparative Study of Innovation in Dublin and Beijing
Advisor: Susan Fainstein

Andrea Rizvi

Bus Rapid Transit Planning Processes in Delhi and Ahmedabad
Advisor: Elliott Sclar


2012


James Connolly

Institutional Change in Urban Environmentalism: A Case Study Analysis of State-Level Land Use Legislation in California and New York
Advisor: Robert Beauregard

Shagun Mehrotra

Reinventing Infrastructure Economics: Theory and Empirics
Advisor: Hans Smit


2011


Johannes Novy

Marketing Marginalized Neighborhoods: Tourism and Leisure in the 21st Century
Advisor: Susan Fainstein

Constantine Kontokosta

The Political Economy of Inclusionary Zoning: Adoption, Implementation, and Neighborhood Effects  
Advisor: Lance Freeman

Padmini Biswas

Strategic Parallels: A Class Comparison of South Asian American Immigrant Labor Organizing
Advisor: Peter Marcuse


2010


James Potter

Boxed In: How Intermodalism Enabled Destructive Interport Competition 
Advisor: Peter Marcuse

Erica Svendsen

Civic Environmental Stewardship as a Form of Governance in New York City
Advisor: Dana Fisher

Joyce Klein Rosenthal

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


2009


Matthew Gephardt

Politics, Planning, and Power: Reorganizing and Redeveloping Public Housing in Chicago, Illinois
Advisor: Susan Fainstein

Lei Wang

Understanding Foreign Direct Investment in the Context of Entrepreneurial China
Advisor: Elliott Sclar

Milena Gomez

New Doors to Development: Remittances and the Housing Industry in Colombia
Advisor: Elliott Sclar