Based on survey research and ethnographic interviews, we analyze struggles over housing and access to infrastructure in two low-income "…
Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social
composition of neighborhoods. Yet, the relationship between…
Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in the US rivaling that of Presidential…
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
What limits should be placed on the public power to take private property? Ten years ago, when the Supreme Court heard the case of Kelo v.…
Harvard Kennedy School students learn firsthand about the practice of public sector innovation by tackling real problems in Chelsea,…
A modest approximation by homebuyers leads house prices to display three features that are present in the data but usually missing from…
A professor, a mayor and a class full of students change a community and reinvent a way of teaching.