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Urban agriculture as a tool for neighborhood fabric repair in post-industrial Detroit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This thesis focuses on Detroit as a post-industrial city that suffers from abandonment, vacancy, and food security issues. I address this problem through the lens of agriculture, asking how urban farming can be used to ...
Electricity privatization : should South Korea privatize its state-owned electric utility?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The state-owned electric utility, Korea Electricity Power Cooperation (KEPCO), privatization has been a key word in South Korea since 1997, when the government received $55 billion from the International Monetary Fund in ...
Whose city? : redevelopment and governance in Boston
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This thesis explores the challenges and opportunities of the community-based redevelopment model in a neoliberal economic context. Drawing on a review of the history and theories of redevelopment and governance in the ...
Synthetic ecology : revisiting Mexico City's lakes project
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Mexico City was founded 700 years ago on man made islets in the middle of a lake. Today, it faces a contradictory situation were water is running scarce, but simultaneously the city runs the risk of drowning in its own ...
Housing policy in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In the last three decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has managed to replace its welfare-based urban housing system with a market-based housing provision scheme. With such significant housing policy changes, the ...
Gender difference in daily activity patterns, urban form, and intra-household interactions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)