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A case for public sanitation with on-site treatment in Ghana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
According to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), 14% of the population in Ghana use improved sanitation facilities and 59% use shared facilities. The objective of this thesis is to offer a situational analysis ...
Stormwater management in Boston : to what extent are demonstration projects likely to enable citywide use of green infrastructure?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Green infrastructure (GI) has been increasingly recognized as the most effective approach for major cities to manage the environmental impacts of stormwater runoff. However, adoption of this infrastructure has yet to achieve ...
Innovating the city : challenges and opportunities in establishing incubators and districts in Paris and Boston
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
All over the world, local leaders are leveraging high-tech industry in their economic development strategies. Cities are encouraging the clustering of industries in specific sectors such as manufacturing, innovation, ...
Public art in Massachusetts : an analysis of municipal-based practices and approaches
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Nationwide, there exists a wide disparity between municipal-based public art programs. Mid to large sized cities typically have public art commissions, percent for art ordinances and various programs with full-time, internal ...
Extracting the economic benefits of natural resources in the Marcellus Shale Region
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
My thesis seeks to explore the challenge of value capture from natural resources using the case of the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia and Pennsylvania as an exemplar. I examine the mechanisms in place to capture the ...
Design and deploy : iterative methods in adapting mobile technologies for data acquisition : a case study in St. Louis, Missouri
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Advancements in mobile technology provide the opportunity to explore not only how data gathering (e.g., surveying) can be eased through digital input mechanisms, but also how such devices can bring new resolution to data ...
Domestic migration networks in the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
In recent years, there has been substantial interest in understanding urban systems at the national and global scales: what are the economic and social ties that link cities together, and what is the network structure ...
Dynamics of vehicle ownership in Singapore
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Cities around the world are trying out a wide range of transportation policy and investment alternatives to reduce car-induced externalities. However, without a solid understanding of how people behave within the constraints ...
Monkey see, monkey do : establishing new real estate development frameworks for the land optioning and assembly process in Singapore
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Development projects ultimately create places in the built environment. As such, the developer should be concerned with the quality of spaces they create for those in the community to interact within. For this reason, a ...
Pro-forma for city form
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis aims to examine impact of financial decisions on the city morphology, specifically on the current crop of new city projects undertaken in India. While there has been some existing research on impact of capital ...