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Public space as an anchor in suburban commercial development : new main streets and town centers.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
An innovative suburban commercial development strategy is gaining momentum in the 1990s. Its prototype may be called the new Main Street/Town Center (MS/TC). The model reacts to complex economic and social circumstances ...
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 ...
Shrinking gracefully : looking for effective planning and design approaches for small town America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The term "shrinking" is often considered a death sentence for Small Town America. Public officials, planners and residents often try to "solve" the condition of shrinking, applying the same tool kit used for growth, with ...
The application of information and incentives as tools to promote green affordable housing development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) developers to produce more green affordable housing.
Historicizing the landscape : recovering the aesthetics of the Alhambra
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The thesis explores the conception and evolution of the Alhambra as a monument during the 19th and 20th centuries. The contemporary monument encompasses a vast landscape complex saturated by nine hundred years of continuous ...
The people in the city of the nation : re-viewing Islamabad's fifth function
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis is about Islamabad's center. Islamabad is a city built from scratch. It was the "dream" of Ayub Khan-Pakistan's gregarious and globe-trotting general-cum-president-and the product of its chief master planner, ...
Designation : the use of information-based strategies in planning and preservation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This thesis explores one tool of government action - information - and its influence on local policy and planning. This thesis is not a comprehensive account of information-based strategies, which would require far-reaching ...
Data-driven customer segmentation: Assessing disparities in COVID impact on public transit user groups and recovery
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
COVID-19 triggered an unprecedented global lockdown and severely dampened public transit ridership, which was down 62% year-on-year across the U.S. through Q4 2020 [1]. Beyond these stark headline figures, more granular ...
A Fare Approach to Attracting Transit Ridership After COVID-19
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
The COVID-19 global pandemic substantially depressed ridership on transit agencies across North America. While much is still unknown about the anticipated return of transit ridership after the pandemic, the exacerbation ...
Equality of opportunity in travel behavior prediction with deep neural networks and discrete choice models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Although researchers increasingly adopt machine learning to model travel behavior, they predominantly focus on prediction accuracy, while largely ignore the ethical challenges and the adverse social impacts embedded in the ...