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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 ...
Coordination vs. control : planning new cities as new economic engines in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Over the past twenty years, there appears to have been a resurgence of "new cities" that have been master-planned, built, and populated "from scratch" throughout the global South--
The Bauenswelt: toward an ontology of the 'built environment.'
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973)
Community enterprise projects : an evaluation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
Urban tree canopy governance and redlined neighborhoods: an analysis of five cities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Trees provide many environmental, social, and economic benefits. Urban neighborhoods do not have equal access to trees, however. Recent scholarship shows that historically redlined neighborhoods, as demarcated by the Home ...
"¡El Pueblo no se rinde, Carajo!" (the people will never give up, Dammit!) : a case study of the Buenaventura Civic Movement's contributions to insurgent planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
For ethnic minorities in Latin America and throughout the Global South, an expansion of citizenship rights, such as constitutional recognition of ethnic groups, has been undermined by State-sanctioned neoliberal policies, ...