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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Hospitals play many roles in a city: alternately, they may be caretakers of the sick, economic engines, intellectual hubs, major employers, and neighbors. This last role has evolved greatly over the last 45 years. The ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis explores the difference in adoption patterns of water recharge well technology in Mexico City both by local entities and the central city government. The research finds that this technology, originally designed ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Road pricing involves charging road users a fee for the external social costs of using private vehicles. These costs typically remain unaccounted for in routine road transport operations and benefit-cost analyses. They ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The November, 2007, street vendor riots in Dakar, Senegal, were one of the country's most powerful expressions of political and economic disintegration in recent times. Almost equally striking was the absence from these ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis examines factors associated with the limited success of the Slum Networking Project (SNP) implemented in the city of Ahmedabad, India between 1995 and 2001. The SNP was conceived as a partnership between ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Globalization has brought about a major shift in our understanding of how companies organize themselves and how they compete. The fragmentation of firms in their scope and structure, the vertical disintegration of firms ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)What is electronic waste? Why is it considered a problem? What are the public health implications of its mishandling? The electronic industry, a sector that has experienced one of the highest growth rates of the last decade, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The dust storm is a meteorological event that is caused by strong winds and proceeds from arid and semi-arid regions, transporting a thick cloud of fine sediments. In China, the sediments of dust storms mainly come from ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis is an exploration of children's educational interactions with their landscape in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the ways in which landscape, as an important contributor to human development, can be integrated as a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)To deal with the challenge of climate change and energy security, renewable energy has been widely regarded as an increasingly important solution leading to a more sustainable future. Given the fact that more than half of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Numerous authors have noted that the patchy, sprawling pattern of development characterizing the metropolitan fringe results in part from the decisions of individual landowners regarding the use, subdivision, development, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
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