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Valuing natural capital in real estate development : challenges and opportunites in the Pearl River Delta, P.R. China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The challenging economic, social, and political issues that face the Pearl River Delta region of south China make it different from any other area of the world. With the clash of such dynamic elements and a desire for rapid ...
Modeling VOC sorption of building materials and its impact on indoor air quality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Sorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by building materials can have significant effect on the indoor VOC concentration levels and indoor air quality in buildings. The objective of this study was to investigate ...
New opportunities for Boston's Chinatown : turnpike air rights
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Boston's Chinatown is a regional business, cultural and service center to the Asian community in greater Boston area. However, it is confronting serious problems at this moment. These problems can be classified as three ...
Interactive specification and acquisition of depth from single images
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
We describe a system for interactively acquiring depth for an image-based representation consisting of a single input image. We use layers of images with depth to represent the scene. Unlike traditional 3D modeling and ...
Monument without qualities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Traditional interpretations of monuments look either at the process of production or of the nature of reception. In this thesis, I take a slightly different approach and look at the monument that exists in peoples' imagination ...
Suburban revisions : redesigning suburban strip malls
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The quality of place in the American suburbs often inhibits peoples ability to have a sense of ownership and connection to the places they live. This is partly because the physical design of many suburban environments have ...
Synthetic leasing : a viable alternative for the corporate user
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Synthetic leasing is a method used to provide off-balance sheet financing to a corporate entity for the acquisition and development of a commercial real estate asset. Recently, off-balance sheet transactions, specifically ...
The medium is the method : modeling strategies for spatio-temporal events
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
In an increasingly networked environment, time has become synonymous with place. The amount of time allocated to an activity serves as the boundary between one space and another. So that where we once had places called ...
Planning accidents and pointing at them : translation and "the truth of solipsism"
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
All the things that drive me as an artist are about the same question. It is a question that may be asked in different ways. I want to know how I am already a part of the world. I want to know if when I look at the world ...
Context : physical and psycho-cultural : a design for the concert hall in Sarajevo, Bosnia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The thesis proposes a mode of designing that emphasizes the active role that the physical context, including its embedded cultural implications and poetic ideas, might play in the process of architectural design. A successful ...