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After retreat : buyout programs and local planning goals after Hurricane Sandy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
State run home buyout programs are becoming increasingly popular as a means to mitigate flood damage to homes within floodplains. However, there are many local benefits associated with buyout programs, including the removal ...
Notes towards a place based approach for the development of Southern Mexico
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The spatial structure of development is of both of theoretical and policy relevance given the feedback or network effects that material wealth or income inequality may have between neighboring spatial units. In order to ...
Promoting alternative dispute resolution in the Massachusetts Land Court : current perceptions and use
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The Massachusetts Land Court is overburdened. More than 15,000 new cases are filed each year, with the even more cases carried over from previous years. Each emotionally taxing case can cost litigants between $50,000- ...
Density and diversity : evaluating one CDFI's place-based revitalization strategy in Detroit's underwater market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This client-based thesis provides a review of three Detroit-based loan funds with the aim of understanding what developers have been able to access financing for multifamily and mixed-use developments in select neighborhoods. ...
Can sustainability be local? : an examination of neighborhood sustainability assessment in Denver, Colorado
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
While the challenge of achieving a sustainable built environment is global, governments and nonprofits working to advance sustainability are increasingly turning to the neighborhood scale (Luederitz, Lang, and von Wehrden ...
Organ Trade : sea level rise adaptation strategies for the San Francisco Bay Area
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
It is not only coastal conditions, but inland ones, that can inform an approach to and process of wetland adaptation in the face of sea level rise. A particular watershed clip in Alameda County, located in South San Francisco ...
The form of clean energy neighborhoods : how it is guided and how it could be
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The subject of "clean energy city" has attained increased attention in recent year. However, almost all studies to date about "clean energy" are either at the building scale or the regional scale and little touches the ...
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into urban development : lessons from two South African cities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
There is a risk that urban climate change adaptation planning - often led by city environmental agencies - will remain isolated from ongoing city decision-making processes, and thus irrelevant, unless adaptation is ...
Developing heritage : activist decision-makers and reproduced narratives in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Aleppo's rehabilitation project has received plaudits for its comprehensive pro-resident approach and an active stance to limit gentrification and touristification. As this objective goes against many of the structural and ...
Rehousing homeless families in Massachusetts : an analysis of "best practice" in Boston and Worcester
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
In 2009, three significant events related to family homelessness converged on the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). First, the shelters for homeless families in Massachusetts were at ...