Designated Emphasis Student Projects
Precarity & Publics: Making and Unmaking Resilience in Mexico City
Beki McElvain
PhD Candidate
City and Regional Planning
Reclaiming Culture: Infrastructure, Islands, and Art in the Shadow of Contemporary China
Chris Chan
PhD Candidate
Anthropology
Landscapes of Industrialization: The ‘long 1970s’ under the Spanish authoritarian regime
Pol Fité Matamoros
PhD Student
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Jitney-lite: low-cost, flexible-route feeder transit without communication devices
Tawit Boom Sangveraphunsiri
PhD Candidate
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lands, Camps, and the Remains: A Spatial History of Refugees in Jordan (1878–2011)
Heba Alnajada
PhD Candidate
Architecture
Social Vulnerability and Risk: Water Infrastructure and Earthquake Hazard in Mexico City
Beki McElvain
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
Assembling Urban Resilience in Miami
Savannah Cox
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
A study of ridehailing programs for passengers with disabilities in Boston and NYC
Madeleine Parker
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
“Urbanizing” the hinterland: agriculture-led urbanization in the Brazilian Midwest
Giselle Kristina Mendonça Abreu
PhD Candidate
City and Regional Planning