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Jazz, improvisation, and streetscapes : guidelines for in-fill development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
How can we design in-fill buildings that are frankly new and dynamic, yet respectful and engaging of the context of the streetscape? Improvisational jazz is a form of music whose practitioners seek to integrate the familiar ...
Historicizing the landscape : recovering the aesthetics of the Alhambra
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The thesis explores the conception and evolution of the Alhambra as a monument during the 19th and 20th centuries. The contemporary monument encompasses a vast landscape complex saturated by nine hundred years of continuous ...
The feasibility of establishing a secondary mortgage market in the Philippines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis will assess the "readiness" and analyze the factors that will lead to the development of an effective secondary housing mortgage market in the Philippines. We will use secondary mortgage market models from the ...
Foreign investment in Latin American real estate : a comparison of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
A common misconception is that Latin America is one homogeneous market. In reality each Latin American country has unique characteristics with sectors that collectively span much of the risk/reward spectrum. For example, ...
Imaging and re-imaging public housing : from modernism to new urbanism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
When public housing was first introduced as a program on the heels of the Great Depression, its image was a largely positive one, resulting as it did from the confluence of modernism, marketing, and media representation. ...