Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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(Re)Centering place within Detroit's black gentrification
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Detroit's 1940s industrial boom began to falter in the middle of the twentieth century as foreign competition and automation spurred deindustrialization. Employment scarcity and a growing black population ignited white ... -
(Re)envisioning Land and Power: A Fight for Community Ownership + Control in Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)This thesis describes a client-based project I undertook in service to the Healthy Neighborhood Study Research Consortium (HNSRC) to help them develop a toolkit for community ownership + control. The toolkit explores what ... -
(Re)Turn to Stone
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)In contemporary Armenia, stone is ubiquitous -- from street furniture to the home, from thousands of public water fountains to thousands of medieval churches, from municipal buildings to Soviet housing blocks disguised ... -
(Re-)integration dynamics of the PC platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Since the 1990's, the PC has come under increasing integration pressure. Many electronic components which had previously existed as separate standalone components have been integrated onto the PC mainboard. Examples include ... -
Re-Alimentaciones-Cruzadas: Procesos de Re-imaginación entre Epistemologías Acústicas/Cross-Feedback: Re-Imagining processes between Acoustemologies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)This compilation of texts actively revisits and develops poetical mythologies through notions of reverberation and feedback to transcend juxtapositions. Re-imagining two mythological snakes, the Amphisbaena, and the ... -
Re-analysis of deep excavation collapse using a generalized effective stress soil model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis re-analyzes the well-documented failure of a 30m deep braced excavation underconsolidated marine clay. Prior analyses of the collapse of the Nicoll Highway have relied on simplified soil models with undrained ... -
Re-architecting the Battalion Tactical Operations Center : transitioning to network centric operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)As the Army conducts transformation in the midst of an ongoing information driven Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and the War on Terror, it has realized the need to develop leaner, more agile, versatile and deployable ... -
Re-Architecting the DoD acquisition process : a transition to the information age
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The military is the midst of significant change, due to the DoD transformation guidance and movement to Network-Centric Warfare/Operations. Unfortunately, both the guidance given, roadmaps produced and the level of espoused ... -
Re-architecting the failure analysis supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)With customer satisfaction and lifecycle product quality becoming a competitive advantage, technology companies are motivated to look beyond their historical focus on forward supply chain management. Operational excellence ... -
Re-collective Revolution: A Reclamation of Black Self-Subsistent Economic Tradition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)The envisioning and deliverance of a collectively liberated future for all marginalized peoples is rooted in a rectified understanding of the redacted history of marginalized peoples. This paper uncovers a history of ... -
A re-connection : modeling built works after natural systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)The constructed world is full of built works that consume energy and emit unusable waste. This is fostered by the act of 'masking' the true situation and the lack of embedded feedback, associated with the destructive ... -
Re-constructing place and community : urban heritage and the symbolic politics of neighborhood revitalization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Inner-city neighborhoods have gathered new life as the hopeful settings for the resurrection of community, safety, economy, and social vitality. Preservationists, artists, historians, and urban designers make bold claims ... -
Re-creating the context : the design of a community theater
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)Herein lies the design of an imaginary building in a very real neighborhood. The building is, among other things, a theater, café, childcare facility and guest house. The neighborhood is a 100 year old urban residential ... -
Re-curating the city : accessories for a new tourism of New York
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis poses a challenge to normal modes of experiencing and representing the spaces of tourism: that is to say, it proposes new ways of touring space. Although this project was initially conceived as a critique of ... -
Re-designing public housing integration : investigating efforts for a socio-spatial connection between project and neighborhood
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)In 1992, the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing (NCSDPH) clearly established the need to revitalize some of the most distressed and isolated housing environments in the U.S. In response, the Department ... -
Re-embedding the global soul
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis proposes to "re-embed" the "global nomad" into the context of an increasingly globalized world at the room scale. I define re-embedding as the "plugging in" of social relationships to local contexts and their ... -
Re-enchanting spaces : location-based media, participatory documentary, and augmented reality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Location-based media have always played a key role in defining both spaces and publics. Due to the proliferation of sophisticated locative technologies, location-based media are increasingly ubiquitous in areas including ... -
Re-energized : a new model for suburban housing through infrastructural remediation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Isolated houses within secluded subdivisions have been dominating the American landscape for decades. Commonly criticized as energy and resource wasteful, financially vulnerable, and socially unresponsive, few have provided ... -
Re-engineering engineering : how Course 2-A is paving the way for interdisciplinary engineering education at MIT
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)In 2004, The National Academy of Engineers (NAE) released a report calling for changes to be made to the current engineering education system in response to the growing need for engineering graduates who would be able to ... -
Re-engineering knowledge networks for development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis examines the evolution of Internet based knowledge networks (e-knowledge networks) in the domain of sustainable development. The objective of this thesis is to use an engineering systems approach to understand ...
