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Community in the garden in the community : the development of an open space resource in Boston's South End
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Now a permanently protected type of open space, the community gardens in Boston's South End began in the early 1970's as an effort to utilize vacant land in what was a predominantly low-income neighborhood. Since then, the ...
Placelogging : mobile spatial annotation and its potential use to urban planners and designers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
With the rise of 'Mobile 2.0,' digital telecommunications are beginning to provide deep resources of information to mobile city dwellers. Particularly striking among recent applications is placelogging, defined here as the ...
Sowing a sense of place : an in-depth case study of changing youths' sense of places
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
In this dissertation I examine the change in youths' sense of urban and non-urban places brought about by involvement in a multi-site agriculture program. The concept of 'Place' is more than the biophysical and built ...
Energy consumption and smart growth in Massachusetts : does smart growth make a difference?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
With the environmental crisis involving climate change fast approaching, all potential mitigation techniques must be explored and implemented. A key approach comes from the power towns and cities have to influence land use ...
Incentive zoning and environmental quality in Boston's Fenway neighborhood
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
A density bonus, also called incentive zoning, is a conditional liberalization of zoning regulations, allowing a real estate development to exceed as-of-right density limits in exchange for the in-kind provision or purchase ...
Designing density : building form and site design for contextually appropriate multi-family housing in Boston's inner-ring suburbs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This research focuses on multi-family residential development in the inner-ring suburbs around Boston in order to understand how dense housing can be designed in ways that are contextually appropriate for these existing ...
Web 2.0 for urban designers & planners
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The author contends that a class of new and emerging participatory Web-based tools, referred to at present as "Web 2.0," can and should be used by urban designers and planners to achieve better results in public participation ...
Greensburg, Kansas : rebuilding a green town
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The tornado that hit Greensburg, Kansas, in May 2007, traveled down the center of Main Street at two hundred and five miles per hour and destroyed ninety-five percent of the town's built environment. The extensive damage ...
Creating the city : toward 21st-century production in Brooklyn, NY
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
In the past decade, the creative city discourse has pulsated with activity, with academics, policy wonks, national organizations, and community non-profits attempting to find footholds in the conversation. By applying the ...
Is planning failing? : the impacts of decision making processes on the Green Line Extension
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Research was conducted on the proposed Green Line Extension, a light rail corridor from Cambridge through Somerville and Medford, Massachusetts. The project is being undertaken by the Massachusetts Executive Office of ...