Lorlene Hoyt
Associate Professor of Urban Planning
MIT@Lawrence Partnership Director
Room 9-528
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
URL: http://www.urbanrevitalization.net
Email: lorlene@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 452-2073
Current Research
I'm working on a documentary, Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Reflections on Our Practice, and a complementary book chapter entitled Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Developing an Epistemology for Our Time. Both illuminate the knowledge and strategies about engagement that M.I.T. faculty, staff, students, in partnership with the people of Lawrence, discovered together, over ten years, and still, on MIT's campus and in a once "forgotten city."
Selected Publications
Hoyt. 2009. Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Developing an Epistemology for Our Time. In Saltmarsh, J. and M. Hartley (eds.) Democratic Civic Engagement: Institutional Change for Reclaiming the Public Purpose of Higher Education. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Hoyt, L., Dougherty, A., Leavy-Sperounis, M., Martin, D., Mills, A., Sisk, E. 2009. Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Reflections on Our Practice. DVD. Cambridge, MA: MIT@Lawrence and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Morçöl, G., Hoyt, L., Meek, J. and U. Zimmermann (editors). 2008. Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies, New York: CRC Press.
Hoyt, L. 2008. From North America to Africa: The Business Improvement District Model and the Role of Policy Entrepreneurs. In Morçöl, G., Hoyt, L., Meek, J. and U. Zimmermann (eds.) Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies. New York: CRC Press.
Gopal-Agge, D. and L. Hoyt. 2008. The Business Improvement District Model in the Canada and the United States: The Retail-Revitalization Nexus. In Morçöl, G., Hoyt, L., Meek, J. and U. Zimmermann (eds.) Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies. New York: CRC Press.
Hoyt, L. and D.Gopal-Agge. 2007. The Business Improvement District Model: A Balanced Review of Contemporary Debates. Geography Compass 1(4) 946-958.
Hoyt, L. 2006. Importing Ideas: The Transnational Transfer of Urban Revitalization Policy. International Journal of Public Administration 29: 221-243.
Hoyt, L. 2005. Planning through Compulsory Commercial Clubs: Business Improvement Districts. Economic Affairs 25(4) 24-27.
Hoyt, L. 2005. Do Business Improvement District Organizations Make a Difference? Crime in and around Commercial Areas in Philadelphia. Journal of Planning Education and Research 25(2) 185-199.
Hoyt, L. 2004. The Business Improvement District: An Internationally Diffused Approach for Revitalization. Washington, D.C.: International Downtown Association, 1-65.
Hoyt, L. 2004. Collecting Private Funds for Safer Public Spaces: An Empirical Examination of the Business Improvement District Concept. Environment & Planning B: Planning and Design 31(3) 367-380.
Boddie, S., Sherraden, M., Hoyt, L., Thirupathy, P., Shanks, T., and M. Sherraden. 2004. Designing and Implementing Family-centered, Place-based Individual Development Account Programs. Saint Louis: Washington University, 1-23.
Hoyt, L. 2007. 'Beginner's Luck: Casinos Come to the City of Brotherly Love.' Planning 73(2) 18-19.
Hoyt, L. and A. Leroux. 2007. Voices from Forgotten Cities: Innovative Revitalization Coaltions in America's older Small Cities. New York: PolicyLink, 1-54.
Hoyt, L. 2005. A Core Commitment to Service-learning: Bridging Planning Theory and Practice. Pp. 17-31 in Mary C. Hardin (ed.), From the Studio to the Streets: Service-Learning in Architecture and Planning Education. Washington, DC: The American Association for Higher Education.
Carrera, F. and L. Hoyt. 2006. From Plan-demanded Data to Plan-ready Information: A Rationale for Comprehensive Urban Knowledge Infrastructures. Journal of Urban Technology 13(2) 1-21.
Hoyt, L., R. Khosla, and C. Canepa. 2005. The Power of Sticks, Leaves and Pebbles: Building a PPGIS in New Delhi, India. Journal of Urban Technology 12(1) 1-19.
Hoyt, L. 2002. Beyond Geographic Information Systems: Exploring Information and Communication Technologies in Planning Instruction. Pp. 30-37 in Disegno e Design Digitale. Milan: Polytechnic Institute of Milan.
Recent Classes
11.422 Downtown Management Organizations Spring 10
11.423 Practicum: Information, Asset-building, and the Immigrant City Spring 10
11.THG-HCED HCED Thesis Prep. Fall 09
Recent Awards
MIT Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award, 2008; President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, 2007; Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement 2007; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Grant - M.I.T., 2007 & 2002; Community Outreach Partnership Center Grant Award - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2006.
Additional Information
Co-founder, Urban Revitalizers, 1998-Present (www.UrbanRevitalizers.com). Deputy Director, Digital Doors Development Corporation, 2005-Present. Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 2001. GIS Manager, Philadelphia Police Department, 1998-2000. Planning Analyst, Philadelphia Housing Authority, 1993-1998.
Earned PhD and Master of City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, Master of Landscape Architecture at the State University of New York, and Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University.
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