yfreemark – Yonah Freemark

A note on this site

This site and all of its contents, including photographs and other images, are copyright Yonah Freemark, 2017. The website use

Yonah Freemark is senior research associate in Metropolitan Housing and Communities at the Urban Institute. He studies how loc

Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA | 2016-2020 PhD in Urban Studies, Department of Urban Studies and

Mobility Politics: Local Ideologies in the Multi-Jurisdictional Metropolis Successfully defended July 14, 2020. Dissertation C

I study how local governments shape planning outcomes in the context of political conflict and multi-level governance systems.

I have worked as a journalist and op-ed contributor on hundreds of articles for more than a dozen outlets, including The New Y

Employment Urban Institute, Washington DC Senior Research Associate, 2020-present. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Camb

The Transport Politic was created in October 2008 and tracks the state of transit in the U.S. and around the world; I founded

Academic Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, October 2020, Online (upcoming) Urban Affairs Associ

Below, find a selection of the design work I conducted as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Yale U