Improving Walkability in Lawrence, MA: The Start!
Mariko Davidson will spend IAP collaborating with non-profits Groundwork Lawrence and WalkBoston on pedestrian safety issues and increasing walkability in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The project will highlight safe pedestrian routes and propose design solutions to connect people from central Lawrence to the new Spicket River Greenway path system. This proposal will be submitted to the Mayor¹s [...]
Leaving Los Angeles
BLOGGING FROM BOSTON Jaymes Dunsmore G, was 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. After a little over two months in Los Angeles, my work was complete, or [...]
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 [...]
Re-learning what it means to be Indian
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD August 9, 2011 Urban Studies and Planning graduate student Farzana Serang was awarded the first Commitee on Race and Diversity (CRD)-Public Service Center (PSC) grant to travel to Washington, D.C, as well as Minnesota and Montana, to work with the National Congress of American Indians and the Rural Assembly. Farzana is [...]
A portrait of production in Solo, Indonesia
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELDJuly 27, 2011 Graduate student and Public Service Intern Stephen Kennedy is working with an urban development and design non-profit Solo Kota Kita (Our City Solo). As you read this, some of you may be sporting a pair of fresh Nike kicks, tapping away on your Apple laptop, or consuming countless calories [...]
Instant TODs- Just Add Transit
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD July 12, 2011 Graduate student and Public Service Fellow Jaymes Dunsmore is working for the City of Los Angeles 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. In many cities, creating [...]
The past and future of transportation in LA
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD 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. Los Angeles is often said to have a love [...]
Breakfast by boat in Banjarmasin, Indonesia
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD Blog Post 02: June 30, 2011 On our first morning in Banjarmasin the Solo Kota Kita (SKK) team awoke for a 5:00 a.m. breakfast at the morning market. Our route, however, denied our land-locked sensibilities and instead took us on a waterborne journey through the city’s extensive river network, passing under [...]
Initial impressions of “Our City Solo”
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD Blog post 01: Initial impressions of “Our City Solo”, June 9 2011 Stephen Kennedy signing on from Solo, Indonesia! I am Master of City Planning student in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning. This summer, I am embarking on my first trip to Indonesia with fellow classmate Alice Shay, where [...]
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 [...]
