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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are matched saving accounts for low-income individuals to save for the purchase of an asset. As one of many national initiatives that encourage homeownership, this thesis explores how ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)Based on the critique of privatization of the waterfront, design and d~velopment explorations are made to reinforce public access from the city to the water with emphasis on creating a clear sequence of public spaces that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The past century of highway construction has assumed relentless growth of vehicular traffic capacity. Yet today is an era of highway rationalization, aging facilities, strained finances, peak oil concerns, climate change, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This is a study of the effect researchers and their methods have on the process of community organizing. It specifically focuses on Heritage Common, a subsidized housing development in Lawrence, Massachusetts with a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The land market and the associated land-development-control mechanism in China have been experiencing a series of reforms since the 1990s, of which Land Conveyance Reform (LCR) in 2004 is a very recent and an important ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis looks to Great Britain for lessons in building New Towns, with an eye towards the nascent Eco-Towns program. Specifically, three areas in urban design are considered: the employment of the neighborhood unit, ...
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From project to neighborhood--investigating assumptions behind current U.S. public housing redesign (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Despite their growing popularity, bottom-up, innovation-based development efforts are failing to make a significant social impact at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP). Merely inventing widgets for development - like affordable ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)With the fast urbanization in contemporary China, "spontaneous" civic spaces rooted in the rural area-the spaces in which local people of different origins and paths of life can commingle without overt control by government, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Today, Toronto is revered among Great Lakes' and waterfront cities for its environmental planning: its massive re-investment in water and stormwater infrastructure; protected headwaters of the region's rivers; realized ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Two broad schools of thought dominate theories regarding financial innovation. One seeks to explain the process of security design in terms of relatively static organizations creating and promoting their wares and services ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The need for cities to adapt to climate change is widely acknowledged, yet the question of adaptation finance remains uncertain. Unable to access global climate funds, cities must seek out alternative sources to support ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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