MIT@Lawrence

Professors

Hoyt, Lorlene

Hoyt, Lorlene, Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Developing an Epistemology for Our Time In Saltmarsh, J. and M. Hartley (eds.) Democratic Civic Engagement:  Institutional Change for Reclaiming the Public Purpose of Higher Education. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2010.

Hoyt, Lorlene and A. Leroux, Voices from Forgotten Cities: Innovative Revitalization Coalitions in America’s older Small Cities. New York: PolicyLink, 2007. 1-54.

This study identifies and analyzes innovative community economic revitalization projects in small, former industrial cities and presents a handful of transferable lessons for planning practitioners. Supported by the MIT Beamis Award, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, PolicyLink, and the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association.

Hoyt, Lorlene, “A Core Commitment to Service-Learning: Bridging Planning Theory and Practice “ From the studio to the streets: Service-learning in planning and architecture. Ed. M.C. Hardin. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 2005. 17-31.

PhDs

Burd, Leo (PhD in Media Arts and Sciences, 2007)

Technological Initiatives for Social Empowerment: Design Experiments in Technology-Supported Youth Participation and Local Civic Engagement.

Ryan, Andrea (PhD, Boston University, 2007)

Not My Brother’s Keeper: Ethnic Individualism, Civic Capitalism, and the Reinvention of Community in an Old Mill City.

Borges-Méndez, Ramón (PhD in Urban and Regional Studies, 1994)

Urban and regional restructuring and barrio formation in Massachusetts : the cases of Lowell, Lawrence, and Holyoke.

Masters

Leavy-Sperounis, Marianna (MCP ‘10)

Manufacturing Recovery: A Networked Approach to Green Job Creation in Massachusetts Gateway Cities

Beam, Jeffrey Jacob (MCP ‘09)

Holistic Revitalization in Small Post-Industrial Cities: Tools for Urban Housing Development (see also defense presentation)

Gonzalez, Eric (MCP ‘09)

Doing the Impossible: Making Urban Schools Excellent

Martin, Danielle Marie (MCP ‘09)

Participatory Media and Collaborative Facilitation: Developing Tools for Aligning Values to Practice in Organizations (see also defense presentation)

Sparks, Holly Jo (MCP ‘09)

Coming soon!

Brewer-Garcia, Eric (MCP ‘08)

What’s happening to my neighborhood? Lessons learned about civic engagement from case studies of community development initiatives

Rothrock, Laura (MCP ‘08)

Business Improvement Districts: An Effective Revitalization Tool for Massachusetts’ Forgotten Cities.

Schwieger, Anne (MCP ‘08)

In Pursuit of Continuity: Engaged Scholarship for Personal and Institutional Transformation.

Stelson, Aaron (MCP ‘07)

Mobility in Ethnic Enclaves in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Wu, Cindy C. (MCP ‘07)

Building Community Assets through Individual Development Accounts: Growing a Strategic Network in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Cheigh, Brian C. (MCP ‘05)

The Urban Economic Development Impacts of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Dominican Entrepreneurs in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Espino, Eric V. (MCP ‘05)

Collective Economics: Leveraging Purchasing Power of Low-Income Communities for Collective Gain - Lawrence Community Works and the Network Advantage.

Rice, Solana (MCP ‘05)

From Individual Development Accounts to Community Asset Building: An Exploration in Bridging People and Place-Based Strategies.

Clark, Heather (MSRED ‘04)

Redeveloping Lawrence, Massachusetts’ [sic] Historic Mill District : insights into adaptive reuse in untested residential markets.

Caulfield, Michelle (MCP ‘03)

Incremental Power: The Nexus between Information Technologies and Community Development.

Gonzalez, Antonio Francisco (MCP ‘02)

Building Partnerships: Public Schools as Catalysts for Community Development.

Delgado, Manuel E. (MS-USP ‘01)

Spicket River Greenway Project, Lawrence, MA : teaching & learning design with the community.

Fraser, Madeline C. (MCP ‘00)

From needs to action : community organizing at Heritage Common, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Andors, Jessica (MCP ‘99)

City and island : Dominicans in Lawrence : transnational community formation in a globalizing world.

Kotelchuck, Tamar (MCP ‘99)

Less-skilled workers & the high-technology economy : a regional jobs strategy for Lawrence, MA.

Mahon, Cathleen A. (MCP ‘95)

Building an enclave : the experience of micro-lending in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Stevenson, Kim (MS-USP ‘92)

A spatial analysis of socioeconomic and demographic change in the Lower Merrimack Valley and Lawrence, MA, 1980-1990.

Duran, Joseph D. (MCP ‘85)

The 1984 riots : Lawrence, Massachusetts.