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Urbanizing terrains
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Urban "sprawl"in the East Attica area of Athens has dramatically changed the former rural economy in a manner consistent with the urbanizing terrain's underlying properties: agricultural subdivisions, existing centres, ...
Bolshevik era, the extreme case of urban planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
The key premise of the Russian revolutionary movement was the overthrow of the old government and establishment of the new political order under the one party leadership of the Bolsheviks. The political platform of the new ...
Leveraging infrastructure : sustainable bus rapid transit route planning in Beirut, Lebanon
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This thesis applies the concepts of urban design, public transportation planning, economic development, and sustainability, to the routing and site plan of a two-kilometer bus rapid transit (BRT) line segment into downtown ...
Building skills : a construction trades training facility for the eastern Canadian Arctic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
On April 1, 1999, the Inuit of the Eastern Canadian Arctic achieved sovereignty over a new territory, Nunavut, envisioning economic self-reliance, political self-determination, and renewal of confidence in Inuit community. ...
The global walkability index
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Although a significant number of trips are made by foot in developing cities, pedestrian infrastructure, amenities, and services are often neglected in municipal planning and budgets. Since helping city planners understand ...
Infrastructure as a vehicle for community building : an urban design strategy for Iztapalapa, Mexico City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Mexico City suffers from flooding, water scarcity, pollution, subsidence and enormous financial costs related to water infrastructure. Poor governance contributes to the city's water troubles by creating overlapping political ...
"Young Town" growing up : four decades later : self-help housing and upgrading lessons from a squatter neighborhood in Lima
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This thesis examines self-help housing policies in Peru by revisiting Independencia, one of Lima's young towns (squatter settlements), forty-five years after its founding. The study was designed to better understand how ...
Food urbanism : urban agriculture as a strategy to facilitate social mobility in informal settlements
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Can community-based urban agriculture generate stronger communities? How is this possible? This thesis explores the possibility of community development through application of community gardens in an informal settlement ...
Border fusion / Fusión en la frontera : integrating industry, habitation and exchange in a divided city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The urban fabric of communities along San Diego/Tijuana's la Línea or border wall are characterized by high degrees of spatial fragmentation: -- a condition typical of border interface areas in politically partitioned or ...
A hydrogen fueling station in 2005?-- will it happen : how do we get from here to there?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Fuel cell vehicles appear promising for major reductions in local emissions and significant decreases in greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Efficient fuel cells require hydrogen fuel. If the hydrogen ...