Built Environment
architecture, Ground Floor Activities, Infrastructure, Interfaces, Mixed Use, public space, Retail, Streets, urban design, Urban renewal, Zoning

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Volume 51 – Number 2

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Andres Sevtsuk is Head of the City Design and Development Group and an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He is the author of Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks (2020). His research focuses on the influence of urban form on sustainable travel behaviour and on public qualities of built environments – urban ground floors, main streets, and amenity location patterns.

 

Justin Kollar is a planner, designer, researcher, and PhD student at the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) at MIT. His current focus is on infrastructure investment, urbanization, and land use policy in Taiwan, including East and Southeast Asia, at the intersection of US-China trade conflict and climate change.