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Light in the city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis focuses on enhancing the awareness of light for the pedestrian,and using light as a way of revealing the structure of the city and its relation to the cosmos. It proposes that aesthetic qualities of light inform ...
Disturbing ecologies : interventions in Boston's seaport district
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
"For the past fifty years the question of nature has been conspicuously absent from urbanistic discourse... The development of the American city can be explained through the opposition between nature and culture, wilderness ...
Landscapes of convergence : a proposal for exchange at the San Diego-Tijuana border
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis addresses the relationship between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. Although these two cities are part of a single landscape and ecology, they are divided, not only by a physical wall, but very different ...
Dockings : transitional housing for political refugees, Stockholm, Sweden
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Inside its cocoon, a caterpillar changes slowly, transforming from one state of being to another over time, but always maintaining its fundamental essence and its origins. Similarly, a move from one place to another- whether ...
Choices and benefits : alternative access and venue sites for Ä°stanbul Olympics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This thesis is based on the idea that the Olympics, a global mega-project that interrupts and re-channels the forces of urban evolution in its host city, can be planned in ways that bring long-term benefits to that city. ...