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Higher occupancy humanism : the trade-offs for encouraging middle income housing in a global city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
In high density urban areas where the land acquisition and construction cost components are significant relative to total development costs, the market typically supplies a high-income housing product in order to justify ...
Privately owned public space attached to office buildings in Manhattan : economic and urban perspectives of incentive zoning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
This thesis examines the Incentive Zoning Policy of New York City from economic and urban perspectives. In the first part, it evaluates empirically the economic contribution of privately owned public space to the value of ...
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 ...