Urban Studies and Planning - Ph.D. / Sc.D.
Recent Submissions
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Sensing lights : transforming street lights into a networked urban knowledge platform ?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)This work is subdivided into three academic papers that together form a coherent exploration of the phenomena of intelligent street lights and their potential applications as a new type of digital urban infrastructure. In ... -
How cities learn : urban experimentation for creating and governing technology ?
As technologies become increasingly complex and embedded in cities, they are less and less intelligible with existing urban governance frameworks. In response, actors in cities around the world are taking up urban ... -
Water Operator Partnerships : utility reform and the struggle for alternatives to privatization ?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The water privatizations that swept across the global South in the 1990s and early 2000s failed to meet expectations. Rather than bringing about increased efficiency and investment, a suite of public-private partnerships ...
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