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dc.contributor.advisorMiho Mazereeuw.
dc.contributor.authorBenitez, Adiel Alexis.en_US
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialn-us-flen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-06T19:57:35Z
dc.date.available2021-10-06T19:57:35Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132761
dc.descriptionThesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2021en_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from the official pdf thesis.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 310-319).en_US
dc.description.abstractOur current global health crisis has clearly rendered how a lack of stable housing, access to care, and the effects of climate change, disproportionately affect our communities of color. Contemporary development patterns demonstrate the inadequacies of unchecked neoliberalism, and its adverse effect on the development of equitable housing. Within this context, Miami presents itself as a vulnerable coastal city exemplar. A growing city, Miami struggles with an endemic affordability crisis, and the long lasting scars of segregation, redlining, and urban renewal in its most vulnerable communities. Today, the city's muddled past has been compounded with its uncertain future. Despite palpable climate change, construction continues along the Miami waterfront, fueled by foreign investors who park capital in luxury real estate. For local residents, both low and mid income, the cost of living continues to rise along with sea levels. Miami, outwardly marketed as a tropical oasis, is now regarded as one of the country's most inequitable cities. This thesis takes issue with the commodification of housing, and its adverse effects on the vulnerable communities of greater Miami. While Miami's surplus of luxury real estate swells, climate change and speculative development have combined to threaten the stability of the city's multi-ethnic core. Instead, it re-considers the cooperative, and the collective ownership of housing, as a mechanism by which communities can reclaim agency within hostile markets, and open up access to stabilize housing in response to climate gentrification, as well as opening up access to other forms of social and financial capital. It works to re-contextualize the cooperative ownership of housing within the Miami context, considering its deployment as an architectural response who's programming and spatial organizations respond to both collective use and collective need.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Adiel Alexis Benitez.en_US
dc.format.extent327 pagesen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.rightsMIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582en_US
dc.subjectArchitecture.en_US
dc.titlePrised out of paradise : reconsidering cooperatives, in response to climate gentrification in Miami's communities of coloren_US
dc.title.alternativeReconsidering cooperatives, in response to climate gentrification in Miami's communities of coloren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreeM. Arch.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architectureen_US
dc.identifier.oclc1264797793en_US
dc.description.collectionM.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architectureen_US
dspace.imported2021-10-06T19:57:35Zen_US
mit.thesis.degreeMasteren_US
mit.thesis.departmentArchen_US


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