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Synthetic ecology : revisiting Mexico City's lakes project
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Mexico City was founded 700 years ago on man made islets in the middle of a lake. Today, it faces a contradictory situation were water is running scarce, but simultaneously the city runs the risk of drowning in its own ...
The city design and the new Urban Revolution : conceptualizing catalytic, sustainable development in Mexico's second tier
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
What is the present role of technical change - particularly change in integrated Information-Communication Technology (ICT) - in facilitating sustainable urbanism in the developing world? Technological advancements are ...
Networked enclaves of Los Angeles : infrastructural strategies for the immigrant enclaves of Koreatown
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Racial and ethnic segregation has always been physically embedded into Los Angeles. The history of planning within the LA metropolitan area, the development of its highway infrastructure, and the demographic mix are all ...
Granular urbanism : adaptive strategies for obsolete downtown neighborhoods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Tackling the problem of obsolescence in North American cities, this thesis interrogates the question of how we should plan for the regeneration of aging office buildings. I argue that current whole-building, coarse-grained ...
Instruments of service
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Instruments of Service are defined by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) as "representations, in any medium of expression now known or later developed, of the tangible and intangible creative work performed by the ...
Public realm usage patterns : lessons from Shenzhen's disappearing urban villages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Shenzhen's villages in the city or urban villages are forms of informal settlement that emerged in the midst of rapid Chinese urbanization. For a period of time, both the city and villages mutually benefited from the ...
The urban design of distributed energy resources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Distributed energy resources (DERs) are a considerable research focus for cities to reach emissions reduction goals and meet growing energy demand. DERs, consisting of local power plants and distribution infrastructure, ...
Approximate translation : media, narrative, and experience in urban design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Approximate translation is developed as a design process through which the place-embedded history of an urban environment can be understood, allowing for better design and intervention in that urban environment. Generally, ...
Introverted architecture and the human dimension : the conflict of placemaking in the disconnected urban fabric of Doha, Qatar
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Doha, the capital city of Qatar, has become a metropolis of disconnected inward-facing mega-projects with no regard to the remaining fabric of the city. This can be owed to the relatively short urbanization period that the ...
Infrastructure as a vehicle for community building : an urban design strategy for Iztapalapa, Mexico City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Mexico City suffers from flooding, water scarcity, pollution, subsidence and enormous financial costs related to water infrastructure. Poor governance contributes to the city's water troubles by creating overlapping political ...