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The value of contractual terms in office leases
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This paper uses a comprehensive data set to develop a hedonic model of office rent that estimates values of contractual terms such as tenant improvement allowances, leasing commissions, and options. The model includes ...
The application of simulation to project evaluation for real estate developers in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
For developers in China to calculate project financial returns in order to make investment decisions, the traditional Excel model only gives "point estimate" (i.e. a single value) for each input variable, and therefore the ...
M49-- Machine for the Living : a performance broadcast through an interfering FM radio transmission
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
The focus of the M49: Machine For The Living project is a performance work that considers the omnipresence of layered communications, which extend, yet supersede corporeal space of the individual. M49 creates a framework ...
Equilibrium analysis of masonry domes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis developed a new method to analyze the structural behavior of masonry domes: the modified thrust line analysis. This graphical-based method offers several advantages to existing methods. It is the first to account ...
An analysis of investor types in real estate capital markets : their behavior and performance from 2000 to 2006
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis explores the timing and returns of eight types of real estate investors between 2000 and 2006. The investor types considered are 1) private local, 2) private national, 3) institutional, 4) public REIT (Real ...
A handbook for improving real estate project delivery in Malaysia : analysis, comparison and selecting the best method
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
The real estate and construction sectors are very important and integral part of the Malaysian economy. At a macro-level, governmental development plans in Malaysia are based on successive five year plans since 1956. For ...
A computational model of visual interpretation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
From the very early phases of design conception, designers use sketches as a powerful design tool. Sketches are however ambiguous. Meanings are associated on fly as the designer 'comes up' with certain ideas while working ...
Confrontation, comparison and reconstruction of the walled city of Shahjahanabad
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Cities offer a platform for cultural, social, physical and economic co-existence and conflict. Many traditional cities of India, which were conceived on the basis of relative autonomy of the existing societal structure, ...
N=1=NPK=KIMCHI=N
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
N=1=NPK=KIMCHI=N is a mobile, expandable living unit which consists of a urinal, urine processing system, hydroponic napa cabbage garden, seedling growing area, customized bed, and kitchen table. I tested my urine, modified ...
The prison of Regina Coeli : a laboratory of identity in the Post-Risorgimento Italy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In my thesis I am studying the prison of Regina Coeli in Rome. Completed in 1892, it occupies the space of the convent after which it was named: the convent of Santa Maria Regina Coeli. The particular prison was built in ...