Yonah Freemark

Dissertation Project

Mobility Politics: Local Ideologies in the Multi-Jurisdictional Metropolis

Successfully defended July 14, 2020. Awarded prize of Outstanding PhD Dissertation–best dissertation in the department–by the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning in June 2021.

Dissertation Committee

  • Lawrence J. Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Chair)
  • Justin Steil, Assistant Professor of Law and Urban Planning, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Kathleen Thelen, Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT Department of Political Science
  • Jinhua Zhao, Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor of Transportation and City Planning, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Research support

This research was supported by grants provided by the Urban Affairs Association Emerging Scholar Award, Lynne Sagalyn and Gary Hack Fund Research Award, the Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Award, and the MIT Center for International Studies Summer Study Fellowship.