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A century of urban development in Rome : people, politics, planning, and ideology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
Rehabbing the suburbs : freedom to change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
Privately owned public space attached to office buildings in Manhattan : economic and urban perspectives of incentive zoning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
This thesis examines the Incentive Zoning Policy of New York City from economic and urban perspectives. In the first part, it evaluates empirically the economic contribution of privately owned public space to the value of ...
Resurrection of the Bombay trans-harbour link project by using Wheaton's monocentric models of urban land use
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
BOMBAY TRANS-HARBOUR LINK PROJECT: A possible solution to Bombay's seemingly unsurmountable social problems. The primary idea behind this thesis is to present a new technique for the appraisal of large scale urban ...
Civitas Peregrina : abject space in early immigrant Toronto
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
The literature on early planning history tends to document the 'progress' made at the turn of twentieth century through the scientific study and rationalization of urban space. Through a detailed study of two areas in early ...
Urban settlement and evolution in XIXth century Antioquia, Colombia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Granular urbanism : adaptive strategies for obsolete downtown neighborhoods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Tackling the problem of obsolescence in North American cities, this thesis interrogates the question of how we should plan for the regeneration of aging office buildings. I argue that current whole-building, coarse-grained ...