Monthly Archives: September 2018

In “Housing, Institutions, Money: The Failures and Promise of Human Settlements Policy and Practice in South Africa,” Bladlow, Bolnick & Shearing critiqued the People’s Housing Process (PHP) for the ineffectiveness of their projects to build affordable housing to replace informal…

As was discussed in Chapter 2, “Basic Debates and Methodological Practices,” in Abbott’s Methods of Discovery, ontology is the philosophical study of being. Under that broad umbrella, are debates that aim to explain existence and reality. For example, some the…

Applying to Olson Scholars last spring, I proposed a research topic on the role of innovative technologies, specifically geographical information systems, in changing natural disaster response in Southeast Asia. The overarching questions/research puzzles I asked then were: Is crowd-sourced data…