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Country regulation of large scale commercial and industrial real estate development in the southwest : is it effective?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Real estate developers and county officials were surveyed to determine the existence, content and accessibility of county regulatory guidelines for land use and real estate development projects in the southwestern US. ...
A portrait, e x t e n d e d
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Every day, researchers from MIT's Materials Science Department stride past a portrait of Vannevar Bush that hangs on a curious display panel in the lobby of building 13, as they hurry to and from their laboratories. A ...
Reconnecting urban communities : Northeastern University Housing Project, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
This design thesis studies the potential of urban design and urban housing to weave vacant lands, their urban context and the urban communities surrounding them. It focuses on an urban housing project adjacent to Northeastern ...
An illuminated workspace for iterative design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The rapid development of digital technology has led to the widespread of virtual or CAD based design environments. However, these tools lack a means of combing physical and digital representations in order to support the ...
The Big Box Bill of Rights
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
On May 9, 1950, a fledgling businessman named Sam Walton bought a main street storefront in Bentonville, Arkansas and opened a discount variety store called Walton's 5 & 10. Business was good. By 2011, Walton's 5 & 10 had ...
Drosscape and the city : the case of Eleonas in Athens
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis addresses design strategies for the future development of drosscapes in urban regions and their relation with the city at large, having as an example the district of Eleonas in Athens, Greece. It provides answers ...
Adaptable architecture : a computational exploration into responsive design systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Based on the fact that architecture is, among other things, the crystallization of a mediation among design intentions (function), meaning and contextual constraints (performance), we as designers are obligated to produce ...
MetaFormances : the hermeneutics of play in language/art/life
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
MetaFormances is a correspondence-based project that took place between 2005 and 2007. Miming the protocol of business form letters, the letters request their recipient to perform absurd, erotic, and illicit behavior in ...
Re-urbanizing Ismailia : by implementing an urban infill housing strategy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Ismailia is a modem Egyptian city located midway along the Suez Canal, the renowned waterway linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The city was developed in 1983 following a French archetype, in collaboration with ...
Integrating dynamic rural clusters into multimodal town through endogenous development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Cities in China have a longstanding reputation of monotonous and hegemonic speculative urbanization. In the recent decade, real estate development transformed a large amount of arable land into urban periphery. This lead ...