Community Voices: If all politics are local, all local politics are about parking
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD Jaymes Dunsmore G, is in Los Angeles working with their Urban Design Studio to improve access to public transportation, increase pedestrian and bicycle safety, and enhance the quality of life in neighborhoods around existing and planned Metro stations. With an issue as broad as transportation planning, in a city as diverse [...]
Grace Lee ’10: Student Leader in Service
Student Leaders in Service is an AmeriCorps program that provides participating students with tuition assistance for completing 300 hours of service over the course of a year. Forty-two student awards have been handed out since MIT began participating in the program in 2008. Two-time participant Grace Lee ’10 performed the majority of her service as [...]
SAP Builds in Perquin, El Salvador
SAP Builds, a student-run group comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from Architecture and Urban Planning, participated in a two-week design/build workshop in Perquin, El Salvador in January 2009. Students and Professor John Ochsendorf helped to develop and build an iconic entry plaza for the Amún Shéa elementary school and community center. The student body [...]
Working for New Ecology Inc.
Community Service Work-Study student Shiva Prakash ’09 assisted New Ecology Inc (NEI) with background research on new technologies for public housing and other government sponsored projects in low-income communities. NEI works with its constituents to help them integrate sustainable development into their ongoing work: development that protects environmental quality and eliminates pollution and waste, provides [...]
A sustainable agricultural village in Hawaii
Public Service Intern Anne Emig (G, Course 4) worked in North Kohala, HI on North Kohala’s Sustainable Agricultural Village. Working with the Kohala Center, an independent non-profit research institute, the project focused on examining Hawai’i’s existing land use zoning in an attempt to identify the current impediments to developing clustered agricultural villages in existing agricultural [...]
