With her project, Research Assistant Professor Goldfarb searches for a scheme to reduce the energy required to manage MSW and leachate landfills and develop new ways and materials to reduce waste and slow the spread of contaminants. Goldfarb will addresses municipal solid waste (MSW) management in urban areas by using pyrolysis to produce energy and […]
Professors Sucharita Gopal and Nathan Phillips will use a data driven approach to define sustainability, resiliency and metabolism metrics to provide cities across the globe better ways to use data to address real urban challenges through the examination of the cities of Boston, New York and Melbourne. Their research seeks to answer the following questions: […]
Ph.D. candidate Taylor Cain, under the advisement of Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino, seeks to identify how place attributes (including income, racial/ethnic composition, and residential and commercial property values) influence the strategies for and consequences of revitalization in two geographically proximate Main Streets business districts in Boston. Taylor Cain Taylor Cain graduated in 2011 with a B.A. […]
In their new study, Assistant Professors Katherine Einstein and David Glick, lead-authors of the 2014 and 2015 Menino Survey of Mayors, will combine extensive mayoral interview data with municipal capital expenditures, mayoral support for city ordinances and mayoral demographic data. They will seek to evaluate the extent to which national policies influence local politics, how […]
Continuing a project that began in November 2014, Professor and Hariri Institute Director Azer Bestavros sought to create a proprietary software tool to enable area corporate employers to anonymously share employee wage data by gender, race/ethnicity and level. The goal is to track the gender wage gap across thousands of employees in the Boston region […]