Project category: Urban Research

Project Members:Brent D. Ryan Engagement MethodDesignEconomics,Finance,PolicySocial Engagement Action AreaEnergy and the EnvironmentHousingLivelihoods Published Year South African cities bear the scars of racial segregation. Central business districts (CBDs) and inner-city neighborhoods were contested spaces that witnessed mass evictions and the relocation of non-white citizens. Conversely, the historically blue-collar neighborhood of Woodstock, located 2 km from the…

Practica MembersBish Sanyal Enagement MethodEconomics,Finance,Policy,Social Engagement Action AreaCommunityHealthLivelihoodsStrategic PriorityClosing the Wealth GapEnhancing Multi-Racial Democratic Governance Published Year This is field-based practicum was jointly offered by SA+P faculty and faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur to study contemporary patterns of urbanization in medium-sized cities in India where the phenomenon is no longer geographically…

Project Members:Brent D. Ryan Engagement MethodDesignSocial EngagementUrban Science Action AreaCommunityHousingMobilityRelated LinksPost Prom Podil Published Year: Postindustrial Podil: Ukraine in Transformation was a participatory action research project and independent study initiated by Brent D. Ryan in partnership with 2017-18 Fulbright Fellow Anastasiya Ponomaryova from Urban Curators. The project occurred between Spring 2018 and Spring 2019. The…

Project MembersBish Sanyal Engagement MethodDesign,Economics,Finance,Policy,Social Engagement Action AreaCommunity,Energy and the Environment,Health,Livelihoods,Mobility Published Year Launched in 2012 with a consortium of MIT partners, the Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) was established to develop new methods for product evaluation in global development. It was premised on the idea that, while countless practical, low-cost technologies have been…