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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 ...
Building bus rapid transit into the existing public transit system : competition and integration of BRT and the Urban Rail Transit in cities in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
BRT is a new type of bus transit with high speed and capacity. With its advantages and benefits, BRT is getting popular in the world, including China. Since BRT and urban rail transit (URT) are both rapid public transports, ...
Anchor institutions and local economic development through procurement : an analysis of strategies to stimulate the growth of local and minority enterprises through supplier linkages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Anchor institutions, such as hospitals and universities are increasingly engaging in community and economic development initiatives in their host cities. Annually, these institutions spend millions of dollar on a variety ...
The politics of implementation : towards a pro-poor land legalization policy in Quito
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis explores Quito's historical development of policies for informal neighborhood legalization to analyze the relationship between the national government, municipal council and low-income neighborhoods of the City. ...
Private firms and holistic development in second-tier US cities : a case study of repopulating, re-urbanizing Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
America's secondary cities are enjoying a well-documented urban renaissance. New residents and their dollars are reversing decades of disinvestment in the urban cores of conventionally less attractive, mid-sized US metro ...
Unconventional wisdom from below : understanding social and technical determinants of ergonomic risk in the Indian informal textile and clothing sector
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In many parts of the Global South, including India, a significant number of informal workers, particularly women in the informal economy, engage in sewing, embroidery, and other forms of manufacturing work within informal ...
MIT commuter common : measuring and improving the transportation footprint of an urban institution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This thesis develops a system for observing, visualizing, and understanding transportation behavior at the scale of an urban institution's entire population. In particular, the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT) ...
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 ...