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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 ...
State and local economic development tools : how does the range of state-level economic development tools available to a locality influence the way local resources are deployed?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Patterns in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) expenditures for economic development in selected states were analyzed to explore whether differences in economic development tools, policies and programs available at ...
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 ...
Promoting sustainable transportation through the integration of cycling with public transit : lessons from Copenhagen and Munich for Singapore
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Sustainable modes of transportation like cycling and public transit are always desired, but trying to achieve a mode shift from the automobile to cycling and public transit can be quite a challenge because cycling and ...
Strategies for systemic urban constructed wetlands
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
As a result of ubiquitous impermeable surfaces, conventional water management and stormwater infrastructure, and the resultant degradation of natural hydrologic networks, most American urban areas have suffered severely ...
The transformation of the ideal wilderness : a case study of Springfield, Missouri and the mid-size American city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis explores the mid-size American city and examines the deeply nuanced relationship between city form, landscape and culture. Using Springfield Missouri as a representative case study, the city is viewed as a ...
Planning for water scarcity in Jordan Valley : in defense of environmental flows in arid climates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Scarcity is relative, as water resources can be mismanaged, shared inequitably and allocated asymmetrically. Half a billion people live under conditions of severe water scarcity in many arid and semi-arid regions, marked ...
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 ...
How do CSR rating schemes influence corporate behavior? : lessons from the utility industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Ninety-three percent of the world's largest 250 companies report data to voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating schemes, and over 380 CSR rating schemes exist to assess companies' corporate actions. While ...
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 ...