Though most were created prior to the conception of MIT@Lawrence, the following theses and dissertations have address the City of Lawrence, MA over the past three decades:
- 2010: Rethinking homeownership : why alternative tenure strategies are needed to stabilize neighborhoods in Lawrence, MA
- 2010: Manufacturing recovery : a networked approach to green job creation in Massachusetts Gateway cities
- 2009: Participatory Media and Collaborative Facilitation: Developing Tools for Aligning Values to Practice in Organizations
- 2009: Holistic revitalization in small post-industrial cities : tools for urban housing development
- 2009: Doing the Impossible: Making Urban Schools Excellent
- 2008: What’s happening to my neighborhood? : lessons learned about civic engagement from case studies of community development initiatives
- 2008: In pursuit of continuity : engaged scholarship for personal and institutional transformation
- 2008: Business improvement districts : an effective revitalization tool for Massachusetts’ forgotten cities?
- 2007: Should I stay or should i go? : residential mobility in ethnic enclaves in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- 2007: Collective economics : leveraging purchasing power of low-income communities for collective gain : Lawrence Community Works and the Network Advantage Program
- 2007: Building community assets through individual development accounts : growing a strategic network in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- 2005: The urban economic development impacts of ethnic entrepreneurship : a case study of Dominican entrepreneurs in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- 2005: From individual development accounts to community asset building : an exploration in bridging people-and place-based strategies
- 2004: Ways of contending : community organizing and development in neighborhood context
- 2004: Redeveloping Lawrence, Massachusetts’ [sic] Historic Mill District : insights into adaptive reuse in untested residential markets
- 2003: Reworking the City of Workers: A New Housing Paradigm for the Immigrant City
- 2003: Mediating inequality : mediators’ perspectives on power imbalances in public disputes
- 2003: Incremental power : the nexus between information technologies and community development
- 2002: Building partnerships: public schools as a catalysts for community development
- 2001: Spicket River Greenway Project, Lawrence, MA : teaching & learning design with the community
- 2000: From needs to action : community organizing at Heritage Common, Lawrence, Massachusetts
- 1999: Less-skilled workers & the high-technology economy : a regional jobs strategy for Lawrence, MA
- 1999: City and Island: Dominicans in Lawrence transnational community formation in a globalizing world
- 1995: Building an enclave : the experience of micro-lending in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- 1994: Urban and regional restructuring and barrio formation in Massachusetts: the cases of Lowell, Lawrence, and Holyoke
- 1993: The feasibility of converting resident care facilities into assisted living facilities
- 1993: A spatial analysis of socioeconomic and demographic change in the Lower Merrimack Valley and Lawrence, MA, 1980-1990
- 1992: A spatial analysis of socioeconomic and demographic change in the Lower Merrimack Valley and Lawrence, MA, 1980-1990
- 1985: The 1984 riots : Lawrence, Massachusetts