Designated Emphasis Student Projects
![Agua Potable](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/aguapotable-315x350.jpg)
Precarity & Publics: Making and Unmaking Resilience in Mexico City
Beki McElvain
PhD Candidate
City and Regional Planning
![Chris Chan Research](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ChrisChanResearch-800x350.jpg)
Reclaiming Culture: Infrastructure, Islands, and Art in the Shadow of Contemporary China
Chris Chan
PhD Candidate
Anthropology
![Archival collage](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/collage-800x350.jpg)
Landscapes of Industrialization: The ‘long 1970s’ under the Spanish authoritarian regime
Pol Fité Matamoros
PhD Student
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
![Jitney-lite](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tawitresearch-800x350.jpg)
Jitney-lite: low-cost, flexible-route feeder transit without communication devices
Tawit Boom Sangveraphunsiri
PhD Candidate
Civil and Environmental Engineering
![Laundry](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heba16-800x350.jpg)
Lands, Camps, and the Remains: A Spatial History of Refugees in Jordan (1878–2011)
Heba Alnajada
PhD Candidate
Architecture
![beki](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Captura-de-Pantalla-2019-09-18-a-las-1.48.41-p.-m.-516x350.png)
Social Vulnerability and Risk: Water Infrastructure and Earthquake Hazard in Mexico City
Beki McElvain
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
![Storm water pump station in Miami Beach.](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/miami-800x350.jpg)
Assembling Urban Resilience in Miami
Savannah Cox
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
![madeleine](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Parker_Madeleine_GMS_Summer_2019-800x350.jpg)
A study of ridehailing programs for passengers with disabilities in Boston and NYC
Madeleine Parker
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
![giselle](https://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Summer-Research_Image-1_Giselle_2019-800x350.jpeg)
“Urbanizing” the hinterland: agriculture-led urbanization in the Brazilian Midwest
Giselle Kristina Mendonça Abreu
PhD Candidate
City and Regional Planning