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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, ...
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. ...
Dominion Geometries : Colonial construction and Postcolonial persistence of the Imperial in the New Delhi Plan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
New Delhi is not only the capital of India but the capital of the world's largest democracy. Conceived and built by the British, the New Delhi plan translated British India's home policy in sandstone. The government's ...
Imaging and re-imaging public housing : from modernism to new urbanism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
When public housing was first introduced as a program on the heels of the Great Depression, its image was a largely positive one, resulting as it did from the confluence of modernism, marketing, and media representation. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...