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The HMUI is currently supporting the following research projects:
Urban Futures in History
Urban Futures
The Circulation of Urban Planning Ideas in the Americas, Post-WW2
Mapping the Megacity
A New Frontier of Settlement: Urban Homesteading Programs, Federal Housing Policy, and Urban Redevelopment, 1974-1986
Acoustic Maps of Colonial Mexico City
The Architecture of Food Sovereignty
Leveraging Data Science to Inform Urban Public Transportation in the Wake of COVID-19: The Case of TransJakarta
Urban Development, Social Media, and Speculation in Peri-Urban Yangon
Redlining and the Built Environment: The Case of Streetlights
The Effects of Prison Gerrymandering in Massachusetts
Architecture Under Occupation: Interpretation, Suppression, and Censorship of Islamic Architecture of the Early Modern Spanish Pacific (Philippines)
Mapping and Contesting the Early Modern Hydropolis: Water Shortage in Istanbul
The Welfare Consequences of Climate Displacement
Library of Study
Deindustrialization and Its Impact in the U.S., the U.K., and France
Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative
Fringe Cities and Urban Renewal
Research Portals
A Real-Time Property Structure of Investment Funds in Barcelona
Cities of Amber: Antigrowth Politics and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1950–2008.
(RE)MAPPING NICOSIA: women's agency in the contested walled city
From Refugee Camp to “Hyperghetto”: Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Hmong Refugees in the Twin Cities, 1976-1996
Who Governs the Crisis City
Cultures of Cargo: Trucking, Music, and Other Punjabi Logistical Medi
Most People's Government: 4-H and Urbanization in East Asia
Louise Erdrich’s Twin Cities: A Literary Mapping
Material World
Off-Site: Diasporic Imaginaries of the Balkan Edge
Reimagining Public Safety: policing and community control in a Boston public housing development
Data and the Built Environment
Transpacific Development: Chinese Cities in the Latin American Literary Imagination
Chaldean grocery store, Detroit, 1974
Ghetto Grocers: Race, Commerce, and Ethnicity in Detroit 1965-2001
Recovery through Remediation
Abolition & Industrialization: The Churches and Paper Mills of Springfield, Massachusetts
Diversion, Non-prosecution, and Public Safety in Suffolk County, MA
Gather: Archiving and Visioning Black Community Learning Initiatives
Mapping Socialist Nodes in a Global Network, 1900-1917
Debt and Development in Abu Dhabi and Kerala in the 20th C
Nonprofits in Crisis: The Case of Homeless Shelters
Coptic Institutions and Development of the Egyptian Public Sphere (ca. 1900-1920)
Planning Participation: Urban Design, Black Power, and the Struggle for Community Control During the American Century
Pre-Texts North Nashville After School Music Education Program
Land of the Free or Land of the Few? Local Concentration in US Landownership
The Right to Consume: Human Rights, Protest, and Commodities in the Built Environment
Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016
A side note of the making and unmaking of smart city
Open Storefront Directory
Contest and Negotiation Over Urban Futures: An Experiment
