Projects

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Projects by 2022 HMUI Urban Research Grant Recipient

City of Memories – Mapping and Re-constructing Hyderabad’s Water Network

Medicalizing Milan: Hospital Reform and Urban Identities in Enlightenment Italy

CDP and the New Environment of Urban Disclosure

Visualizing the Adriatic City: Ravenna and the Future of Italian Energy

Municipal Hoarding and the Fragmentation of Local Tax Bases

An Economic Inquiry into Street Work: Evidence from Urban India

Mapping Water Shortage in Early Modern Istanbul

Cultures of Cargo: Trucking, Music, and Other Punjabi Logistical Medi

Who Governs the Crisis City

Born in Flames

Fires in Ottoman Istanbul: Mapping Transformations in the Social Fabric

Segregation in South Africa and India

Wheat City: Karachi in the Commodity Revolution, 1880s-1920s

The heterogeneous relationship between rent control and NIMBYism

(RE)MAPPING NICOSIA: women's agency in the contested walled city

A side note of the making and unmaking of smart city

Planning Participation: Urban Design, Black Power, and the Struggle for Community Control During the American Century

Contest and Negotiation Over Urban Futures: An Experiment

Dreams of D-Mecca: Racial Crossings and Urban Renewal in Islamic Detroit

Architecture Under Occupation: Interpretation, Suppression, and Censorship of Islamic Architecture of the Early Modern Spanish Pacific

The everyday life of the laws of the cities

A History of Urban Food Gardens in Boston

Crime Control, Child Protection, and the Development of Urban Schooling

Coptic Civil Society and the Development of the Egyptian Public Sphere (ca. 1890-1920)

Most People's Government: 4-H and Urbanization in East Asia

Open Storefront Directory

Projects by 2021 HMUI Urban Research Grant Recipient

Image from the newspaper of a man on a trolly

Cities of Amber: Antigrowth Politics and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1950–2008.

From Refugee Camp to “Hyperghetto”: Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Hmong Refugees in the Twin Cities, 1976-1996

Rusted lock in a prison cell with a view of a grey sky.

The Effects of Prison Gerrymandering in Massachusetts

The Right to Consume: Human Rights, Protest, and Commodities in the Built Environment

Material World

A grid of photographs of city home exteriors in Barcelona, Spain.

A Real-Time Property Structure of Investment Funds in Barcelona

Abolition & Industrialization: The Churches and Paper Mills of Springfield, Massachusetts

Photo of field of grass with a city at the edge and many gray clouds.

Urban Development, Social Media, and Speculation in Peri-Urban Yangon

Mural of a family walking and looking up next to the words: Freedom is not a destination it's a Journey"

Pre-Texts North Nashville After School Music Education Program

Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016

Black and white photo of an indoor/outdoor hallway in 20th century architecture.

Transpacific Development: Chinese Cities in the Latin American Literary Imagination

TransJakarta

Leveraging Data Science to Inform Urban Public Transportation in the Wake of COVID-19: The Case of TransJakarta

Protest in São Paulo.

Mapping the Megacity

Reimagining Public Safety: policing and community control in a Boston public housing development

Photo of two shipping boxes from above

Off-Site: Diasporic Imaginaries of the Balkan Edge

Box 6. Street Lighting History Collection, 5030.001. Boston City Archives

Redlining and the Built Environment: The Case of Streetlights

Graphic from 1896 that reads International Socialist and Trade Union Congress

Mapping Socialist Nodes in a Global Network, 1900-1917

View of city on a hill.

The Architecture of Food Sovereignty

Louise Erdrich’s Twin Cities: A Literary Mapping

AAreal view of two buildings with turquoise-colored roofs.

Data and the Built Environment

Library of Study

Diversion, Non-prosecution, and Public Safety in Suffolk County, MA

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The Welfare Consequences of Climate Displacement

Land of the Free or Land of the Few? Local Concentration in US Landownership

Projects by Doctoral Fellows 2022-2023

Chaldean grocery store, Detroit, 1974

Ghetto Grocers: Race, Commerce, and Ethnicity in Detroit 1965-2001

Projects by DOCTORAL FELLOWS 2021-2022

Architecture Under Occupation: Interpretation, Suppression, and Censorship of Islamic Architecture of the Early Modern Spanish Pacific (Philippines)

Projects by Doctoral Fellow 2020-2021

Steel and Tube

Deindustrialization and Its Impact in the U.S., the U.K., and France

Collage of maps, photos and the text Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative.

Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative

Aerial view of downtown Montgomery Alabama

Fringe Cities and Urban Renewal

Debt and Development in Abu Dhabi and Kerala in the 20th C

1940s Canadian Advertisement for Seagram's

Urban Futures in History

Recovery through Remediation

Four vintage maps of Bombay, Constantinople, Boston, Berlin

Research Portals

Urban Futures

The Circulation of Urban Planning Ideas in the Americas, Post-WW2

Santa Cruz Map, ca. 1550.

Acoustic Maps of Colonial Mexico City

Harvard Undergraduate Urban Sustainability Lab

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Harvard Undergraduate Urban Sustainability Lab (HUUSL)

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