#  Projects 

 



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#### The HMUI is currently supporting the following research projects:



 

 

 

##  Projects by 2025 HMUI Urban Research Grant Recipients 

 



  [### On the Abstraction of Water: Mapping the Construction of Crisis

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/abstraction-water-mapping-construction-crisis) 

   ![Blatt & Brodeur](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/On%20the%20Abstraction%20of%20Water_Cover%20Image_0.jpg?itok=qHYnLH26) 

 

 

 

  [### Disabled Afro-Indigenous Women’s Lives and Imaginaries in Jim Crow Oklahoma

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/abstraction-water-mapping-construction-crisis) 

   ![Anderson, back](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/Anderson%20img.03.jpg?itok=_-gayXKh) 

 

 

 

  [### A Massacre in Four Maps

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/massacre-four-maps) 

   ![hmui white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white_01.png?itok=QZ8sGBli) 

 

 

 

  [### Visualizing, Representing, and Interrogating Latin American Urbanism: Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Mexico City

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/visualizing-representing-and-interrogating-latin-american-urbanism-buenos-aires-sao-paulo-and) 

   ![01](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Capa-lisa-folder-Conference-Image-1536x1237_1.jpeg?itok=Rt1xRBV1) 

 

 

 

  [### Attalid Urban Revival in the City Center of Sardis: ca. 215–160 BCE

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/attalid-urban-revival-city-center-sardis-ca-215-160-bce) 

   ![hoffman4](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Picture4.jpg?itok=YtEAuB0Q) 

 

 

 

  [### Research on (Migrant) Belonging in Spanish cities: Anthology of Culturally Hybrid Artists in Spain

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/research-migrant-belonging-spanish-cities-anthology-culturally-hybrid-artists-spain) 

   ![hmui white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white_01.png?itok=QZ8sGBli) 

 

 

 

  [### Lines in the Sand: The Spatiality of Racial Segregation at Public Beaches in the United States 

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/lines-sand-spatiality-racial-segregation-public-beaches-united-states) 

   ![moses 3](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/moses%203.jpg?itok=akqrV4Lw) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

##  Projects by 2024 HMUI Urban Research Grant Recipients 

 



  [### Old Capital, New Capital: Urban Construction during the Nizams of Hyderabad, 1724-1774

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/old-capital-new-capital-urban-construction-during-nizams-hyderabad-1724-1774) 

   ![P1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Picture1.jpg?itok=WWH2-GbV) 

 

 

 

  [### The “Floating Options”: Waterborne Migrant Housing in Europe, 1987-2006

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/floating-options-waterborne-migrant-housing-europe-1987-2006) 

   ![zhang p1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/ZHANG%20HMUI%20Report%205-29-25.jpeg?itok=z52p82M8) 

 

 

 

  [### Sentiment and Space: Mapping Affective Reactions in Urban Environments Through Social Media and Street View Analysis

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/sentiment-and-space-mapping-affective-reactions-urban-environments-through-social-media-and-street) 

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##  Projects by 2023 HMUI Urban Research Grant Recipients 

 



  [###  The suburbs, the city, and the Plantationcene

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/suburbs-city-and-plantationcene) 

   ![p1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/GINES%20-%20project%20card%20photo%20credit%20Justin%20Hardman.jpg?itok=EoCIRWtk) 

 

 

 

  [### Menteng Pulo Cemeteries: A Window into Trans-Oceanic Migration to Indonesia

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/menteng-pulo-cemeteries-window-trans-oceanic-migration-indonesia-0) 

   ![p1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Picture1.png?itok=UDShAp_2) 

 

 

 

  [### Migrant Kathmandu: A Study of Urban Affect

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/migrant-kathmandu-study-urban-affect) 

   ![p1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/GYAWALI_HMUI%20project.jpeg?itok=vD6A0gdl) 

 

 

 

  [### Mapping Singapore’s Shifting Ethnic Enclaves: Sites of Impermanence and Belonging

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/mapping-singapores-shifting-ethnic-enclaves-sites-impermanence-and-belonging) 

   ![p1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/LIM%20proj%20card%20image.png?itok=7AnCBY5C) 

 

 

 

  [### Report on Black Women's Monuments in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/report-black-womens-monuments-new-york-chicago-and-washington-dc) 

   ![hmui white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white_01.png?itok=QZ8sGBli) 

 

 

 

  [### The Search for Rural Modernity in Urban China: A Survey of China's Scholar Activist Networks for Rural Modernization

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/search-rural-modernity-urban-china-survey-chinas-scholar-activist-networks-rural-modernization) 

   ![hmui white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white_01.png?itok=QZ8sGBli) 

 

 

 

  [### “The Environmental Impact of Housing, Transit, and Energy Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts” A Holistic Evaluation of Cambridge’s Net-Zero Action Plan

 ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/environmental-impact-housing-transit-and-energy-policy-cambridge-massachusetts-holistic-evaluation) 

   ![p1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Picture13.png?itok=uFR2pOgH) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

##  Projects by 2022 HMUI Urban Research Grant Recipients 

 



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

 ](/city-memories-%E2%80%93-mapping-and-re-constructing-hyderabad%E2%80%99s-water-network%E2%80%9D-hyderabads-water-network) 

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  [### Born in Flames

 ](/born-flames) 

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

 ](/dreams-d-mecca-racial-crossings-and-urban-renewal-islamic-detroit?admin_panel=1) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  [### Medicalizing Milan: Hospital Reform and Urban Identities in Enlightenment Italy

 ](/medicalizing-milan-hospital-reform-and-urban-identities-enlightenment-italy?admin_panel=1) 

   ![ori_ben-shalom_03-card.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/ori_ben-shalom_03-card.jpg?itok=BUyWkytk) 

 

 

 

  [### Fires in Ottoman Istanbul: Mapping Transformations in the Social Fabric

 ](/fires-ottoman-istanbul-mapping-transformations-social-fabric?admin_panel=1) 

   ![jordan_cannon_garabet_yazmaciyan_fire_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/jordan_cannon_garabet_yazmaciyan_fire_01.jpg?itok=nN44QEPO) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/architecture-under-occupation-interpretation-suppression-and-censorship-islamic-architecture?admin_panel=1) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  [### CDP and the New Environment of Urban Disclosure

 ](/cdp-and-new-environment-urban-disclosure?admin_panel=1) 

   ![tayler_davey_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/tayler_davey_01.jpg?itok=wQ8xABBt) 

 

 

 

  [### Segregation in South Africa and India

 ](/segregation-south-africa-and-india?admin_panel=1) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  [### The everyday life of the laws of the cities

 ](/everyday-life-laws-cities?admin_panel=1) 

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

 ](/visualizing-adriatic-city-ravenna-and-future-italian-energy?admin_panel=1) 

   ![ficarelli-image_1-card.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/ficarelli-image_1-card.png?itok=7D05eAYm) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/wheat-city-karachi-commodity-revolution-1880s-1920s?admin_panel=1) 

   ![image_1_ghosh_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/image_1_ghosh_01.jpg?itok=oHHhyM_R) 

 

 

 

  [### A History of Urban Food Gardens in Boston

 ](/history-urban-food-gardens-boston) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  [### Municipal Hoarding and the Fragmentation of Local Tax Bases

 ](/municipal-hoarding-and-fragmentation-local-tax-bases?admin_panel=1) 

   ![brian_highsmith_project_box_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/brian_highsmith_project_box_01.jpg?itok=cTRTFBms) 

 

 

 

  [### The heterogeneous relationship between rent control and NIMBYism

 ](/heterogeneous-relationship-between-rent-control-and-nimbyism) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/crime-control-child-protection-and-development-urban-schooling) 

   ![rebecca_horqitz-wills_chi_daily_news_pic_-_1902_003_01.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/rebecca_horqitz-wills_chi_daily_news_pic_-_1902_003_01.jpeg?itok=-eA_TUFh) 

 

 

 

  [### An Economic Inquiry into Street Work: Evidence from Urban India

 ](/economic-inquiry-street-work-evidence-urban-india) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/remapping-nicosia-womens-agency-contested-walled-city) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/coptic-institutions-and-development-egyptian-public-sphere-ca-1900-1920) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  [### Mapping Water Shortage in Early Modern Istanbul

 ](/mapping-and-contesting-early-modern-hydropolis-water-shortage-istanbul-0) 

   ![moses_1-card.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/moses_1-card.jpg?itok=_djNlnht) 

 

 

 

  [### A side note of the making and unmaking of smart city

 ](/side-note-making-and-unmaking-smart-city) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/most-peoples-government-4-h-and-urbanization-east-asia) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/cultures-cargo-trucking-music-and-other-punjabi-logistical-medi) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/planning-participation-urban-design-black-power-and-struggle-community-control-during-american) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  [### Open Storefront Directory

 ](/open-storefront-directory) 

   ![william_swett_01-card.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/william_swett_01-card.jpg?itok=BVsIH3Yd) 

 

 

 

  [### Who Governs the Crisis City

 ](/who-governs-crisis-city) 

   ![torres_image_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/torres_image_01.jpg?itok=SnimF9f0) 

 

 

 

  [### Contest and Negotiation Over Urban Futures: An Experiment

 ](/contest-over-sustainable-urban-futures) 

   ![lucy_ballard_what_up_doe_2_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/lucy_ballard_what_up_doe_2_01.jpg?itok=0EK_3nfp) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

##  Projects by 2021 HMUI Urban Research Grant Recipients 

 



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

 ](/cities-amber-antigrowth-politics-making-modern-liberalism-1950-2008) 

   ![Image from the newspaper of a man on a trolly](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/cities_of_amber_antigrowth_politics_and_the_making_of_modern_liberalism_1950-2008._1.png?itok=IcVR0GIG) 

 

 

 

  [### Pre-Texts North Nashville After School Music Education Program

 ](/pre-texts-north-nashville-after-school-music-education-program) 

   ![Mural of a family walking and looking up next to the words: Freedom is not a destination it's a Journey"](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/pre-texts_north_nashville_after_school_music_education_program.png?itok=okJ7DD4u) 

 

 

 

  [### Mapping Socialist Nodes in a Global Network, 1900-1917

 ](/mapping-socialist-nodes-global-network-1900-1917) 

   ![Graphic from 1896 that reads International Socialist and Trade Union Congress](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/mapping_socialist_nodes_in_a_global_network_1900-1917.png?itok=-fA0r_yp) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/refugee-camp-%E2%80%9Chyperghetto%E2%80%9D-mapping-spatial-distribution-hmong-refugees-twin-cities-1976-1996) 

   ![borja_and_gilbreath.pdf.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/borja_and_gilbreath.pdf.png?itok=iA4dZJg2) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/urban-power-democracy-inequality-sao-paulo-johannesburg-1985-2016) 

   ![urban_power_democracy_and_inequality_in_sao_paulo_and_johannesburg_1985-2016.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/urban_power_democracy_and_inequality_in_sao_paulo_and_johannesburg_1985-2016.png?itok=DJ0017r9) 

 

 

 

  [### The Architecture of Food Sovereignty

 ](/food-sovereignty-or-how-lan-interdependent-food-system-future-case-milpitas-supply-chamexico-city) 

   ![View of city on a hill.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/chasing_mila.png?itok=oHqwoC42) 

 

 

 

  [### The Effects of Prison Gerrymandering in Massachusetts

 ](/effects-prison-gerrymandering-massachusetts) 

   ![Rusted lock in a prison cell with a view of a grey sky.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/the_effects_of_prison_gerrymandering_in_massachusetts.png?itok=PNbVD_hn) 

 

 

 

  [### Transpacific Development: Chinese Cities in the Latin American Literary Imagination

 ](/transpacific-development-chinese-cities-latamerican-literary-imagination) 

   ![Black and white photo of an indoor/outdoor hallway in 20th century architecture.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/transpacific_development_chinese_cities_in_the_latin_american_literary_imagination.jpg?itok=sD7pDMTr) 

 

 

 

  [### Louise Erdrich’s Twin Cities: A Literary Mapping

 ](/louise-erdrichs-twcities-literary-mapping) 

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

 ](/right-consume-human-rights-protest-commodities-built-environment) 

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

 ](/leveraging-datscience-inform-urban-public-transportation-wake-covid-19-case-transjakarta) 

   ![TransJakarta](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/transjakarta_image_resized_900x643.jpg?itok=J6vEaAUx) 

 

 

 

  [### Data and the Built Environment

 ](/data-built-environment) 

   ![Areal view of two buildings with turquoise-colored roofs.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/tommy_hill.png?itok=s_obz3Xc) 

 

 

 

  [### Material World

 ](/material-world) 

   ![charlotte_malterre-barthes.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/charlotte_malterre-barthes.png?itok=uSzTtbys) 

 

 

 

  [### Mapping the Megacity

 ](/mapping-megacity) 

   ![Protest in São Paulo.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/protest_im_ap_luzinete_017_.jpg?itok=odJPKnrO) 

 

 

 

  [### Library of Study

 ](/urban-research-grant-project-proposal-library-study) 

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  [### A Real-Time Property Structure of Investment Funds in Barcelona

 ](/real-time-property-structure-investment-funds-barcelona) 

   ![A grid of photographs of city home exteriors in Spain.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/a_real-time_property_structure_of_investment_funds_in_barcelona.jpeg?itok=4tju6oJq) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/reimagining-public-safety-policing-community-control-boston-public-housing-development) 

   ![jasmine_olivier.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/jasmine_olivier.jpg?itok=ZnODpMhl) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/diversion-non-prosecution-public-safety-suffolk-county-ma) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  [### Abolition &amp; Industrialization: The Churches and Paper Mills of Springfield, Massachusetts

 ](/abolition-industrialization-churches-paper-mills-springfield-massachusetts) 

   ![noah_secondo.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/noah_secondo.png?itok=IfAuInfc) 

 

 

 

  [### Off-Site: Diasporic Imaginaries of the Balkan Edge

 ](/site-diasporic-imaginaries-balkan-edge?admin_panel=1) 

   ![Photo of two shipping boxes from above](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/off-site_diasporic_imaginaries_of_the_balkan_edge.png?itok=zY8WKfJz) 

 

 

 

  [### The Welfare Consequences of Climate Displacement

 ](/welfare-consequences-climate-displacement) 

   ![Graph](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/the_welfare_consequences_of_climate_displacement.png?itok=qoqR8AY5) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/urban-development-social-media-speculation-peri-urban-yangon) 

   ![Photo of field of grass with a city at the edge and many gray clouds.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/urban_development_social_media_and_speculation_in_peri-urban_yangon.png?itok=iL-_wi2D) 

 

 

 

  [### Redlining and the Built Environment: The Case of Streetlights

 ](/redlining-built-environment-case-streetlights) 

   ![streetlights](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/redlining_and_the_built_environment_the_case_of_streetlights.png?itok=nRfvnY0U) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/rules-engagement-forming-guidelines-design-schools-working-marginalized-communities)​​​​​​​



 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

##  Projects by Doctoral Fellows 2022-2023 

 



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

 ](/ghetto-grocers-chaldean-merchants-commercial-space-and-racial-conflict-detroit-1965-2001) 

   ![Ghetto Grocers: race, commerce, and ethnicity in Detroit, 1965-2015.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/preview-full-kenneths_project-resized.jpg?itok=qbF4QVq8) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

##  Projects by DOCTORAL FELLOWS 2021-2022 

 



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

 ](/architecture-under-occupation-interpretation-suppression-and-censorship-islamic-architecture?admin_panel=1) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

##  Projects by Doctoral Fellow 2020-2021 

 



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

 ](/deindustrialization-and-its-impact-us-uk-and-france-0) 

   ![Steel and Tube](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/joel_sabando.png?itok=56zp-ejN) 

 

 

 

  [### Urban Futures in History

 ](/urban-futures-history) 

   ![1940s Canadian Advertisement for Seagram's](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/urban_futures_in_history.png?itok=R6dBwcmw) 

 

 

 

  [### Urban Futures

 ](/urban-futures) 

   ![Back to the Future: How the Past Imagined the Cities of Tomorrow.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/treelike_buildings_by_b._g._seielstad900.jpg?itok=FxKBk5PK) 

 

 

 

  [### Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative

 ](/urban-intermedia-city-archive-narrative) 

   ![Collage of maps, photos and the text Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/urban_intermedia_card_image_2.jpg?itok=92T03pbk) 

 

 

 

  [### Recovery through Remediation

 ](/recovery-through-remediation-landscape-and-economic-transformation-gdr%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cenergy-district%E2%80%9D) 

   ![recovery_remediation_title_image_07.23.20_final.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/recovery_remediation_title_image_07.23.20_final.jpg?itok=zhPvD5tG) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/circulation-urban-planning-ideas-americas-post-ww) 

   ![from_ranchos_to_superbloques_card_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/from_ranchos_to_superbloques_card_image.jpg?itok=Cy8bJwAw) 

 

 

 

  [### Fringe Cities and Urban Renewal

 ](/fringe-cities-and-urban-renewal) 

   ![Aerial view of downtown Montgomery Alabama](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/aerial_view_of_downtown_montgomery_alabama_card_image.jpg?itok=C4msIZAt) 

 

 

 

  [### Research Portals

 ](/portals) 

   ![Four vintage maps of Bombay, Constantinople, Boston, Berlin](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/portals_card_image.jpg?itok=MsLdyFBp) 

 

 

 

  [### Acoustic Maps of Colonial Mexico City

 ](/acoustic-maps-colonial-mexico-city) 

   ![Santa Cruz Map, ca. 1550.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/acoustic_maps_of_colonial_mexico_city_.png?itok=kOfYsxEb) 

 

 

 

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

 ](/debt-and-development-abu-dhabi-and-kerala-20th-c) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

##  Harvard Undergraduate Urban Sustainability Lab 

 



  [### Harvard Undergraduate Urban Sustainability Lab (HUUSL)

 ](/harvard-undergraduate-urban-sustainability-lab-huusl) 

   ![HMUI white logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hmui/files/hmui-card-logo_white.png?itok=9O4lUY46)