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The ethos in the form making of grand projects in contemporary Beijing City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Capital cities embody national identity and ethos, buildings in the capital cities have the power to awe and to inspire. While possibly no capital city in the world is being renewed so intensely as Beijing, which presents ...
Electronically modulated materials : effects and context
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Recent advancements and increased availability of technologies have led to the design of surfaces and materials that can encode physical properties into digital information that can be manipulated at will. While research ...
Site plan review in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : authoritative abuse or administrative method for regulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Inclusionary housing requirements in California : examining the economic impact on three cases
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Site selection criteria in community shopping centers : implications for real estate developers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate retail site selection criteria in community centers and ascertain the implications of these criteria for the retail real estate developer. Historically, real estate developers ...
Turkish REITs : an overview of the industry and its performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This thesis aims to provide insight into the emerging real estate investment trust (REIT) sector of Turkey, the reasons underlying its creation, its legal and economic evolution and its performance since the commencement ...
The evolution of an American small town : an intervention focusing upon re-centralization and diversification
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
A research and design thesis exploring the evolution of a small southwest Virginia farming town named Christiansburg. The first section of this work focuses on the original crossroad community that aided the surrounding ...
Vacant and underutilized land in Boston
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Design operators
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Design operators is a thesis that investigates the nature and characteristics of the design process by examining the interaction of computation with architectural design. The effects of the introduction of these media in ...
Vieques, Puerto Rico : from devastation to conservation, and back again
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The donning of camouflage gear by military forces is uniformly understood to be an attempt to dissolve into a background matrix in order to deceive an enemy in combat, or in a combat simulation. This thesis examines the ...