Social and Urban Policy

Through a host of topics related to social and urban policy, these teaching cases enable students to grapple with a range of complex challenges including, but not limited to, community empowerment, affordable housing, urban planning, gentrification, health and health care.

  • Teaching Case - Vision Mumbai

    Vision Mumbai

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    Publication Date: July 01, 2008

    In 2006, officials of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the State of Maharashtra were beginning to implement a plan to improve the economic fortunes of the city. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, was India's richest city, with...

  • Teaching Case - Parking in San Francisco

    Parking in San Francisco

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    Publication Date: August 31, 2007

    In 2006 planners in the City and County of San Francisco were promoting an overhaul of the city's parking policy that they claimed would correct unfair and unwise subsidies for automobile users.  The effort was designed to allow market...

  • Teaching Case - Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina (Sequel)

    Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: May 31, 2007

    This sequel accompanies the main case (1862.0). On Tuesday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, causing inadequate levees to collapse and flood the city in what came to be widely seen as a man-made disaster. The Federal...

  • Teaching Case - Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina

    Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina

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    Publication Date: May 31, 2007

    On Tuesday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, causing inadequate levees to collapse and flood the city in what came to be widely seen as a man-made disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) calculated that...

  • Teaching Case - City Renovation: New Images for Athens

    City Renovation: New Images for Athens

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    Publication Date: January 27, 2006

    In preparation for hosting the 2004 Olympics, the city of Athens, Greece embarked on an extensive renovation project, New Images for Athens, to beautify the city. In total, over 1,600 buildings received attention at a cost of over 4.5 million...

  • Teaching Case - Liconsa and the Program of Social Assistance for Milk

    Liconsa and the Program of Social Assistance for Milk

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    Publication Date: September 15, 2004

    In 2003, officials in Mexico's Ministry of Social Development were debating whether to eliminate a long-standing program that provided subsidized milk to poor families. In its place, they would expand a new program that gave poor families...

  • Teaching Case - Corporate Values and Transformation (Sequel)

    Corporate Values and Transformation (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: June 01, 2004

    This case focuses on one of the largest and most successful of such microlenders, Mexico's Compartamos ("we share") organization, and raises questions about the most effective business model and scale of microlenders. Specifically, the case...