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Vending the city : mapping the policy, policing and positioning of street vending in New York City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
tolerance of their activities; governments often allow street vendors in certain areas of the city, while relocating street vendors from sidewalks in others. In the absence of meaningful, in-depth datasets on urban ...
The commodification of community in residential real estate : the developer as community-builder for generation Y
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
As the Millennial generation flocks to urban neighborhoods, large apartment developers are offering new residential models that offer "community-oriented" living, externalizing some of the features traditionally limited ...
Measuring climate adaptation : assessing the use of indicators in U.S. coastal cities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In response to the growing threat of climate change, in recent years many U.S. cities have developed climate adaptation plans. However, they have made limited progress implementing these plans and even less progress ...
Where desparation planning meets reparations planning : transit as an agent of equity in the shaping of Detroit's future
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Black America has been made subject to hatred-fueled mistreatment of near incomparable magnitude and duration for over four centuries of this nation's history. From the shackles of slavery to the systematic disenfranchisement ...
University anchor for urban development and community wealth generation : Berkeley global campus in Richmond, California
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In 2012, the City of Richmond submitted a proposal and was selected to be home of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Second Campus. The elimination of more than $1.5 billion in federal funding halted the ...
Imagine Pershing Square : experiments in cinematic urban design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Each person experiences urban space through the shifting narratives of his or her own cultural, economic and environmental perceptions. Yet within dominant urban design paradigms, many of these perceptions never make it ...
Smartphone-based mobility mapping and Perceived Air Quality evaluation in Beijing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Recently, the rapid development of smartphone technologies has brought new opportunities for the citizen travel survey. Based on a survey performed using a smartphone app, Moves, in Beijing, China, this thesis discusses ...
All a diversion? : evaluating progress toward a Zero Waste goal in Los Angeles and New York City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In the last decade, the Zero Waste movement has emerged as a "visionary" approach to sustainable consumption and production. Promoting the transition from the linear system of 'take-make-dispose' to a closed-loop system ...
The shape of segregation : the role of urban form in immigrant assimilation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In this thesis I investigate the relationship between the built environment and the residential segregation of immigrants at the building level. I use micro-data that includes the exact address of all the foreign and native ...
Deepening democratic capacity through collective inquiry : community-led research at PalmasLab
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In 2015, research and innovation group PalmasLab developed their inaugural research project: a "wealth and poverty map" meant to provide a multi-dimensional picture of community development. PalmasLab is located in, and ...