M.S. in Urban Planning Theses

Listed and linked below are selected master’s theses advised by Leah at Columbia GSAPP’s Urban Planning program since 2016.

*Recipients of thesis awards are noted with an asterisk.

 
above: from Entrikin (2019)

above: from Entrikin (2019)

above: from Stokes (2019)

above: from Stokes (2019)

above: from Serra Coch (2019)

above: from Serra Coch (2019)

2020-2021

Regina Joy Alcazar. “Sandbox: Evaluating Smart City Technologies.”

Justin Barton. “Municipal Annexation, Race, and Local Power: Evidence from Four US Cities.”

Tihana Bulut. “Resilience Planning as a Means for Disaster Risk Reduction, Recovery, and Preparedness in the Rockaways: Insights from Hurricane Sandy and COVID-19”

Riley Burchell. “Between Essentialisms: An Exploration of Non-Binary Racial Identity and Placemaking.

Lanier Hagerty. “Small Town, Global City: The Changing Landscape in Muscatine, Iowa, from 2010 to 2020.”

Hui Lu. “The Collaboration Models of Practices of Aging in Community in Different Contexts.”

Xifan Wang. “The Two Tales of a New Retail Ecosystem: Analyzing how E-Commerce Reshapes the Urban Retail Landscape through a Case Study in Shanghai, China.”

 
 
 

2016-2017

Jahnavi Aluri. “Shifting from Driving to Riding: a Study of the Impacts of On-Demand Cab Services on Public Transit Ridership and Vehicle Ownership in Hyderabad, India.”

Elizabeth Leah Cohn-Martin. "Situating Urban Agriculture: What, Where, and Why in New York City."

Ubaldo Escalante. “There Goes the Barrio: Measuring Gentefication in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.”

Patrick Li. "Residential Development and Its Impact on School Access in New York City."

*Dorothy MacAusland. "Exporting Expertise? Rotterdam’s Planners and the Flood Adaptation Industry."

Madeleine McGrory. "Riot: Community Organizations and Public Communication Following Crown Heights and Tompkins Square."

Sahra Mirbabaee. "Vying for Fiber: A Comparative Analysis on Local Government Decision-Making for Fiber Internet."