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Manufacturing firms and local jobs : the influence of competitive strategies on labor in the garment sector of San Francisco El Alto, Guatemala
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
This empirical research address how the growth gained by San Francisco El Alto's garment sector has spread across the local population. It makes evident how the family-owned firms that comprise the local industry have ...
Filling the metaphysical landscape
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Currently a gap exists between the regulatory, technocratic approach to managing a municipal landfill and the unofficial narratives of the people who live near the landfill and face a multitude of unpleasant effects in ...
There's no justice in transit! : transit equity, land use, and air quality in Boston
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
As a result of air pollution created by the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), aka "the Big Dig," transit and other air quality mitigation projects were incorporated into the State Implementation Plan (SIP). The SIP is ...
Planning for economically and environmentally sound electricity in Shandong Province, China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis specifies, simulates and examines a number of electricity service expansion scenarios for Shandong Province, China. In this exercise it communicates how a selected assortment of generation and end-use efficiency ...
Fiscal decentralization and urban public transport
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Financing public transport through public funds is a common practice that can be justified on different grounds: equity, natural monopoly and, particularly with the increasing motorization rate, externalities produced by ...
Innovative strategies for managing the increasing costs of paratransit operations under the Americans with Disabilities Act
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990, transit agencies saw a fundamental shift in the requirements of service for the disabled. Among other obligations, they were required to provide door-to-door ...
The windy city : harnessing power in the neighborhood landscape
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
As wind power has spread in North America, so has an awareness that community acceptance will largely determine whether this renewable energy source continues to grow. Despite apparently widespread popular support for wind ...
Returns on Chinese residential development projects : a practical investment evaluation procedure developed for the analysis of Chinese residential development projects based on modern financial economic norms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Since late 1990s, Chinese real estate has been experiencing rapid growth, especially in the commercial housing sector. This phenomenon is mainly supported by China's housing privatization policy implemented in the mid-1990s ...
City knowledge : an emergent information infrastructure for sustainable urban maintenance, management and planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) updates. It produces plan-ready information, by exploiting the self-serving and opportunistic pursuit of instant return-on-investment by frontline offices. Thanks to its emergent qualities, City Knowledge engenders ...
Temporary upgrading : how permanent are the results? : a case study of strategies to improve tenure in Ho Chi Minh City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
An Khanh is an informal settlement in District 2 of Ho Chi Minh City, and the site of a Master Plan that may displace up to 7,000 households. A major part of the Master Plan proposes expanding the commercial core of Ho Chi ...