Yonah Freemark

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA | 2016-Present

  • PhD in City Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Edward H. Linde (1962) Presidential Fellow

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA | 2010-2013

  • Master of Science in Transportation (MST), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Master of City Planning (MCP), Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Winner of the Flora Crockett Stephenson Writing Prize from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning upon graduation.

Yale University
New Haven CT | 2004-2008

  • Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, with Distinction

Hillside High School
Durham NC | 2000-2004

  • Valedictorian, National Merit Scholar, International Baccalaureate Diploma

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Conference/Workshop Presentations

  • Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, April 2017, Minneapolis MN
    “What if upzoning doesn’t provoke a market reaction? Short-term impacts of Chicago’s 2013 TOD ordinance.”
  • American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 2017, Boston MA
    “Expanding access to retail for low-income households: Obstacles to mixed-use affordable housing.”
  • Society for City and Regional Planning Biennial Conference, November 2011, Baltimore MD
    “Private Aims, Redistributive Reality.”
  • MIT PhD Research Workshop, March 2017, Cambridge MA
    “Expanding access to retail for low-income households: Obstacles to mixed-use affordable housing.”
  • MIT JTL, March 2017, Cambridge MA
    “An urban agenda for the deployment of autonomous vehicles: Research progress.”

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Research Assistantships

Working with Professor Jinhua Zhao on projects related to self-driving vehicles and shared vehicle use (2016-present).

Worked with Professor Lawrence Vale on American public housing history (2010-2013). Aided in the research for Professor Vale’s book Purging the Poorest.

Worked with Professors John Attanucci and Nigel Wilson on London’s Underground (2011-2013).