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From linear spaces to linear places : recycling rail corridors in urban areas
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
To date, the reuse of abandoned railroad rights-of-way has occurred primarily in suburban and rural areas. However, a new generation of urban rail corridor conversions appears to be underway. More urban in more places than ...
Boston's back streets : planning a city program to preserve and enhance Boston's industrial health
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This study examines a new economic development initiative designed by the city of Boston to support its remaining small- and medium-sized industrial and manufacturing-related businesses. In reviewing this initiative - ...
Degradation despite regulation : water pollution in Billings Basin, Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Billings Basin, a water reservoir in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region of Brazil, suffers from pollution. When the Billings Dam was built, industrial and energy sector interests prevailed, encouraged by Brazil's authoritarian ...
Coordinated transportation and land use planning in the developing world : the case of Mexico City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Transportation, land use and the environment are inextricably linked. In recent decades there have been efforts, primarily in the developed world, to coordinate transportation and land use planning so as to use land resources ...
Balancing values : development strategies that sustain the cultural heritage of rice paddies and the natural landscape in Thimphu, Bhutan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis focuses on the impending urban development of the terraced rice paddies in the valley surrounding Bhutan's capital city, Thimphu. It makes the argument that this unique landscape is deeply rooted in Bhutanese ...
An EcoIndustrial assessment of Roxbury
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Industrial Ecology (IE) is a growing body of knowledge and theories regarding the environmental impacts of human activities. It is intended to bring some lessons from the natural ecology to bear on the functioning of our ...
Negotiating place : community participation and design in the planning of public schools
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Schools play key roles in land use, community development and public policy issues. The construction of new schools, in particular, has come to be seen as a critical growth factor with broad impacts. A participatory school ...
Electric vehicle technology in Kathmandu, Nepal : a closer look at development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Electric vehicle (EV) development in the Kathmandu Valley began in 1993 as a response to the urgency of a severe air pollution situation. The dynamics of government intervention, non-governmental organization advocacy, ...
Providing security of tenure to the urban poor : investigating the roots of slum improvement in Hyderabad, India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis is concerned with the relationship between urban land reform and large-scale slum improvement in Hyderabad, India. It forges a link between citywide slum improvement in the 1980s and efforts to guarantee the ...
Private sector provision of Internet access in rural India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In South India today, a number of ongoing projects seek to provide internet access to rural areas by combining computer, internet, and other telecommunications technologies in a profitable business model. Yet, in spite of ...