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Showing 1 to 20 of 4482 for “"Cities"”.
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Cities Beyond
Cities Beyond is a collection of poems about the liminal space between the suburbs and the pasture as metaphor for the created space of memory, self, and location.
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Rooftop Cities
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Waste free cities: pathways to future smart cities in India
… to unplanned increases in the population of some cities. This has resulted in a number of social and environmental problems such as space, traffic congestion, housing, and increased waste volumes. Various concepts of sustainable and smart cities have been developing as platforms of solutions to …
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The Verging Cities
<p>The Verging Cities is a collection of poems about the sister cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua México. It is divided into four sections. The first takes place mostly in a domestic sphere exploring the relationship between the speaker and Angel. The second explores the …
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Contemplative place in cities
Thesis (M. Arch and M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1978.
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The climate of cities
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1949.
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Fables of undiscovered cities
… are used to materialize those fictitious cities. The more convincing and detailed those cities appears, the more observations and analysis could be applied and further developed. And by doing so, readers are invited to start their own adventures in those "undiscovered" territories.
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Mobile applications for cities
… to the best way for motorists to find parking in cities, and then pay for it and refill it once they have arrived. We are developing a mobile app that will hopefully streamline this process for drivers, while replacing costly infrastructure for cities and reducing enforcement costs, and minimizing …
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Global heritage cities : managing complexity of cultural world heritage sites in global cities
… the management of historic urban areas in global cities that are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which are referred as global heritage cities hereafter. In this rapidly globalising world that is market-driven, the binary approach of managing change in historic cities while promoting …
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Urban Morphology of American Cities: A Comparative Study of Old and New Growth Cities
No abstract prepared.
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Absolute Sustainability of Australian Cities
… of city dwellers and infrastructure of cities are critical to addressing sustainability issues. Australian cities are regularly named amongst the most liveable cities in the world, but with high consumption levels and long supply chains impacting hinterlands. This thesis aims to assess …
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Cities and Labor Market Dynamics
… but there are costs to mobility. Furthermore, cities are heterogeneous in a number of dimensions, including their local labor market productivity, their housing supply, and their offering of amenities.</p><p>I examine the impact of these spatial considerations on the dynamics of local labor …
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Regenerative Design for Future Cities
… urban scales, is key to create values within our cities. This process celebrates the idea to regenerate, rather than exhaust our energy and resources, which helps re-aligns our social life with the natural environment as an integrated system. At the same time, the regenerative design celebrates …
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Cities, networks, and knowledge spillovers
… complex knowledge is better produced in large cities, and urban vibrancy can help enhance knowledge spillover. First, we document that when starting new ventures, knowledge about the industry is more important than knowledge about the occupations involved. Second, we find that complex economic …
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The sonic environment of cities.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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Evaluating fiscal strain in cities
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Essays on Inequality in Cities
… 1960s increased racial inequality in American cities. As a mechanism for why these disparities arise, I explore the central role of exclusionary institutions that limited access to residential neighborhoods for minority families and how they shape the distributional effects of interstate …
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Designing cities for the elderly
This thesis seeks to answer how urban design in an established town can be adapted to accommodate an aging population. It uses the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, as an example of a community making active efforts to improve its design and services to meet the needs of its elderly citizens. Among …
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Casual Death in Contemporary Cities
… these sacred spaces have been expelled from cities. Contemporary cities are failing to acknowledge death, causing grief and memory to be internalized. For this reason, it is necessary to reintegrate grief and introduce the natural process of death as a casual and cyclical interaction within …
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