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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 ...
(Managerial) style over substance : determinants of devaluation for female supervisors in an Indian garment factory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Despite the rising representation of women in management, female managers continue to be devalued compared to male managers, presenting a challenge for gender inequality in organizations. This study helps address a significant ...
Data Driven Transit Oriented Development Planning: Using Montreal’s New Transit System as a Case Study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
The goal of transit-oriented development (TOD) is to encourage personal movement via walking or cycling to/from transit stations, increase the usage of shared means of transit, reduce highway, street, and parking congestion, ...
Modeling metropolis : clean energy guidelines for neighborhood design in rapidly urbanizing China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In China's current landscape the paradigm for urban development is the rapid creation of whole neighborhoods instead of the conventional piecemeal approach of creating individual buildings that gradually aggregate over ...
The transit oriented basis boost : adapting the LIHTC to finance affordable housing near transit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is arguably the most successful and important program in American history for the creation of affordable housing. The program leverages private investment in affordable housing, through ...
A Case Study: LIHTC-to-Condo Conversion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
By the end of the decade, approximately half of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)-funded housing units are anticipated to reach the end of their affordability restrictions. This thesis examines the potential benefits ...
Transforming industrial heritage sites in major Chinese cities : reintegrating Minsheng Wharf into the life of the city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
China is a nation evolving through post-industrialization towards a cultural and innovation based society. In turn, its urban form is grappling with a number of preserved industrial heritage sites in major urban centers ...
Entrepreneurship as a Catalyzer of Housing Quality Enhancement in Colombia: Tervi
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
The evolution of cities in Latin America has been shaped by a complex interplay of factors, including political history, informality, geography, and culture. With one of the highest rates of urbanization in the world, the ...
Double-dipping or lagniappe? : a study on the use of tenant-based vouchers in low-income housing tax credit developments in New Orleans, Louisiana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans demolished nearly all of its public housing. Mirroring a national trend, not all of it was replaced. What was replaced largely took different forms: tenants received portable Housing ...