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Federal housing policy and the popular imagination has long posited suburbs as the locus of opportunity and socioeconomic mobility in the United States. Yet as the number of poor, immigrant, Black, and Latino suburban residents increases dramatically (Lacy 2016), these benefits have not always materialized. In fact, the diversification of suburbia has not eliminated racial…

While cities can anticipate increasing frequency and severity of climate-related disasters, political uncertainty and global pandemic fallout are producing crises of public capacity and accountability in state and local economies. This convergence of crises exposes a politics that upends implicit assumptions about the existence of a functioning state and its role in addressing climate risk…

My research looks at how newly reclaimed spaces for art and culture become the sites and infrastructures of both cultural production and contestation on China’s pelagic borders.  Following a series of mobile artist communities in Hong Kong and Taiwan during a time of radical political change and pandemic-related isolation, I explore how the interventions of…

In my research I intend to explore, through a spatial lens, the transition that Spain experienced during the 1970s from an authoritarian regime of fascist ascendancy to a European-integrated liberal democracy. In other words, I intend to study how Francoism operated as a mode of production of space; the role its spatial strategies played in…

Flexible-route service has been delivered as an access-and-egress mode to its trunk-line transit system. This service can benefit both users and operators because it combines the low fare of collective transport with the adaptive routing of private transportation. Early efforts to develop this service were, for example, a dial-a-ride shared taxi and a subscription shared…

Journalists, practitioners, and policymakers often claim that refugees and western humanitarianism have a coeval and coterminous history, and indeed, that the UN (United Nations) camp is the only rational solution to the refugee problem. In my dissertation, I counter such claims by situating the contemporary Syrian refugee crisis within an architectural and socio-legal history that…