Designated Emphasis Student Projects

Storm water pump station in Miami Beach.

Assembling Urban Resilience in Miami

Savannah Cox
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
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madeleine

A study of ridehailing programs for passengers with disabilities in Boston and NYC

Madeleine Parker
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
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giselle

“Urbanizing” the hinterland: agriculture-led urbanization in the Brazilian Midwest

Giselle Kristina Mendonça Abreu
PhD Candidate
City and Regional Planning
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francisco

Constructing Alternative Politics: Emerging Memberships and Identities in Mexico City’s New Urban Peripheries

Francisco Morales
PhD Student
Anthropology
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wetland

Planning for the Future of California Salt Marshes

Celina Balderas Guzman
PhD Candidate
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
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Field work in Rio de Janeiro

The rise of new political actors in Brazilian peripheries: The effects on space, politics, and planning

Priscila Coli
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
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Seville

Confronting Experiences of Water Vulnerability and Inequities of Water Management in California’s San Joaquin Valley

Yanin Kramsky
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning
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Tunis, Tunisia

Governing through Expectation: Territorial Configurations of Democratizing Politics in Post-revolution Tunisia

Lana Salman
PhD Candidate
City and Regional Planning
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Urbanization in China

Ecological State: Science, Nature and the City in China’s Southwest

Jesse Rodenbiker
PhD Candidate
Geography
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Rio’s Urban Peripheries

Deviations from Democracy: City-making in Rio’s Urban Peripheries & the Unmaking of Democratic Imaginary

Nicole Rosner
PhD Candidate
Anthropology
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