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From marginalized to optimized : re-envisioning urban highway corridors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The past century of highway construction has assumed relentless growth of vehicular traffic capacity. Yet today is an era of highway rationalization, aging facilities, strained finances, peak oil concerns, climate change, ...
The urban waterfront in flux : accommodating uncertainty in Brooklyn
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Urban waterfronts are host to every shade of a city's development. Once pulsating with trade and production, the very reason for the city's existence, the mid 20th century brought jarring macroeconomic shifts and technological ...
The evolution of passenger accessibility in the US airline industry, 1980-2010
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Since deregulation, passenger air travel and the airline industry as a whole have changed dramatically. While most previous research has focused on the changes experienced by the airlines, this thesis seeks to understand ...
A policy story of continuity and change : reflections on the Obama Administration's Metropolitan Agenda
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
President Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009 and within the first month of his presidency, against a backdrop of staggering concerns about financial reform, energy efficiency, and the need to allocate $787 ...
Building bus rapid transit into the existing public transit system : competition and integration of BRT and the Urban Rail Transit in cities in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
BRT is a new type of bus transit with high speed and capacity. With its advantages and benefits, BRT is getting popular in the world, including China. Since BRT and urban rail transit (URT) are both rapid public transports, ...
Creative capacity building in post-conflict Uganda
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Creative Capacity Building (CCB) is a methodology that emphasizes the ability of people living in poverty to create livelihood technologies, i.e., machines and tools that increase income, improve health and safety, decrease ...
Drawing the line : spatial street vendor management in Ho Chi Minh City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
A lack of consensus exists among urban planners and government officials on what to do with the complex issue of informal street vending and sidewalk usage, with cities often turning to ineffective licensing or harmful ...
Investing (in) equity : how can urban development internalize social cost?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This thesis recognizes the social costs created by privately driven urban development while also acknowledging cities' fiscal dependence on local property taxes. This study is based on the premise that equitable spatial ...
Creative agencies : a model for building community capacity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This research investigates how existing initiatives based in artistic and non-artistic disciplines build indigenous capacity for leadership in disenfranchised communities through the application of the creative process. ...
New Media, new voices : supporting civic engagement in low-income communities of color
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Within the past few years, large-scale events such as Obama's successful 2008 campaign and democratic mobilizations in the Middle East have increased mainstream buzz about the democratic potential of new media. With the ...