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Mobile retrospective : shrinking the digital divide
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
The concept of the digital divide is a condition in the urban context where informationalization via computer technology exacerbates a duality that consists of those who have access to information technologies, and those ...
Decomposing the grid
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The American landscape chronicles the dreams of an agricultural nation through a series of regular lines en-scribed on a flat plane. Each 6 mile x 6 mile square frames a lose-lose situation in which government subsidies ...
The verge : transforming an insufficient edge
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis considers a new edge strategy for an Insufficient waterfront. The shore of Bass Harbor poses a problem significant to the whole Maine coast, as the access and Infrastructure imperative to the fishing industries ...
Generative opponents : a new architecture for native soil
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
A design of an Ecological Visitor Center for the Central American country of Guatemala was carried out based on a series of explorations with analogue and digital design techniques. The theses addresses a possibility of ...
Dancecity :: culturestudio
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
dance : movement :: city : life. As dance is characterized by movement, the city is characterized by life. As dance is dependent on movement, the city is dependent on life. [edit] dance : city :: movement : life Dance : ...
A room in the city : housing itinerant lifestyles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In a globalized world, people are becoming more transient, and the turnover in cities continues to increase. For the white-collar labor force, the difference between residing and staying is becoming less defined. Hotel and ...
Organism of options : a design strategy for flexible space
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The need for "flexibility" of architecture has been increasing as recent social demands are rapidly changing. However, many buildings designed in the name of flexibility are blocky, boring, and actually quite inflexible ...
The notion of buying architecture : a proposition of strategic architecture for urban economic contexts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
How can an urban redevelopment be the best thing that has ever happened to a proposed site and to its residents who have lived there before the development? With lack of appreciation for how re-development projects could ...
An exploration of materials and methods in manufacturing : shoreline membranes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis is an investigation into the design methodologies and ideologies of manufacturing processes specifically related to automotive design. The conceptualization, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing of cars is ...
Above reproach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
As global populations continue toward higher levels of urban densification, sprawl has caused the United States to reach an un-sustainability low level of population density. The past six decades of sub-urbanization have ...