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Ibn Khaldun and the city : a study of the physical formation of medieval Cairo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
This essay is an application of Ibn Khaldun's theories of culture and civilization to a study of the physical formation of medieval Cairo . The study is based on the premise that the city is an historical process governed ...
A community center for Ichikawa
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957)
Disturbance grounds : an inquiry into non-equilibrium architectural states
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Fundamentally, this project pursues the concept of construction from destructive forces. It presents architectural opportunity at the physical scale of the mega-city and the time scale of the geological, advocating for a ...
State of roads : public works as research, India circa 1960
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
That the road is a symbol of the prowess of the nation-state seems tautological, a uni"ed phenomenon of political symbolism that manifests as an infrastructural network. When subjected to a close historical examination, ...
The people in the city of the nation : re-viewing Islamabad's fifth function
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis is about Islamabad's center. Islamabad is a city built from scratch. It was the "dream" of Ayub Khan-Pakistan's gregarious and globe-trotting general-cum-president-and the product of its chief master planner, ...
Rethinking streets : urban life with autonomous vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Historically, streets have served a range of functions, primarily those associated with traffic circulation and social interaction. However, in the 20th century, the street design became centered on traffic movement and ...
Automated motion planning for robotic assembly of discrete architectural structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Architectural robotics has proven a promising technique for assembling non-standard configurations of building components at the scale of the built environment, complementing the earlier revolution in generative digital ...
Architecture of the cloud, virtualization takes command : learning from black boxes, data centers and an architecture of the conditioned environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
A single manageable architecture of the Cloud has been one of the most important social and technical changes of the 21st century. Cloud computing, our newest public utility is an attempt to confront and control cultural ...
.... but what is good urban form?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
The urban design of distributed energy resources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Distributed energy resources (DERs) are a considerable research focus for cities to reach emissions reduction goals and meet growing energy demand. DERs, consisting of local power plants and distribution infrastructure, ...