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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"North End"”.
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The renewal of the North End of Boston
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1959.
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Informal microenterprise in the North End community : Springfield, MA
The North End community in Springfield, Massachusetts is one of many communities across the United States that is struggling with how to improve its economic health. Traditional economic indicators, which emphasize the weaknesses of low-income communities, fail to capture the importance of informal …
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Shelter and working class communities : community initiated housing development in the North End
Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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City form and changing process : the case of the North End, Boston, 1860-1930
… agents play only a partial role. Taking the North End, Boston as a case study, it tries to explore the complexities of the combined effects of some of these processes bearing on city form. In conclusion, the thesis shows that changes in city form do not happen only because there is a …
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Recommendations to the Campus Committee : an organizing strategy for the North End of Springfield, MA
The North End neighborhood of Springfield, MA is one of the poorest areas in the entire Commonwealth. For many years, agencies in the community have worked to provide basic services to the residents, who are primarily Puerto Rican. For the past twelve years, the major service organizations in the …
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Food Security, Diet Quality and Health of Food Pantry Participants in the North End of Hartford
<p> Food insecurity is an increasingly urgent problem in the United States. Food security is defined as having “consistent access to enough food for active healthy living.” Those who are food insecure typically lack access to healthy food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, facing increased …
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A city walkable: [Re]Imagining spatial justice through access and public space in North End, East London
… justice through access and public space in North End, East London, South Africa. The research questioned the state of East London's public space, its inner-city decay, and its vehicular dependency. East London lacks good quality public space that is walkable and accessible. A city walkable …
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Placing the City: An Exploration of John Paskievich’s Photographs of Winnipeg's North End as Visual Cartography
… in 1976, John Paskievich's photographs of the North End of Winnipeg occupy a distinct space in the photographic history of the city. Ranging from local streetscapes to portraits of community members, this diverse grouping of images take on qualities similar to the 'New Documents,' and use irony …
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Enhancing pedestrian access and neighborhood integrity in Boston's North End : a mixed use approach utilizing the existing highway structure
I set out to explore for this thesis the development of the Central Artery Project and the future planning of downtown Boston. After investigating the history of the artery, visions for Boston's redevelopment and different stages of the construction plans from the transportation authority, I have …
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Open spaces in the North End, Boston : guidelines for community control over the functional and formal characteristics of the physical structure.
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Regulating new construction in historic areas
… of new construction in historic areas. The North End, South End, and Back Bay neighborhoods of Boston were identified as historic areas that possessed increasingly restrictive design regulations, and within each neighborhood, two recent new buildings were selected as case studies. Each pair …
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From land to sea : an exploration of Sargents Wharf design and redevelopment
… It is the last publicly owned parcel in Boston North End/ Downtown waterfront that is still available for redevelopment A mix-use program is proposed to maximize the accessibility of the wharf to a broad group of users. The thesis draws together two development issues: (i) how public access and …
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A Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Retail Location and Clustering: A Case Study of Port Huron, MI
… a retail development opened on the urban area's north end in 1990. The study uses the chi-squared, ANOVA, and cross tabulation statistical tests to analyze the changing geography of retail functions in the city. These statistics are used along with relative entropy equations to distinguish areas …
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FieldJournal : a mobile data collection and mapping applications for the pocketPCs
… to solve the specific problems of workers at the North End Outreach Network. FieldJournal has four main sections which allow the user to view data about households or individuals or to map the data. The implementation of FieldJournal follows the Model-View-Controller paradigm, separating the user …
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Movement and the neighborhood fabric as the generators for an urban elementary school
… for the design of an elementary school in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. The school primarily services children from preschool through fourth grade; however, it is meant to be a facility for a more widespread community population. The goal is to present a design for an educational …
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Storm Response and Water Balance of Temperate Rainforest Karst Watersheds: Tongass National Forest, Alaska
… water balance results in two watersheds on the north end of Prince of Wales Island demonstrate the difficulty in containing the effects of management, as water can enter karst catchments from unknown sources at different flow regimes. A dye trace was conducted in Windgate and Canyon Block …
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Redesign of a demolished neighborhood: creating a healthy, safe and sociable Cabrini Green in Chicago
… demolished public housing project located at the north end of Cabrini Green neighborhood in Chicago. It is the former “William Green Homes”, notorious for crimes, physical deterioration, and social isolation, but also home for many hundreds of people over the years. In accordance with HUD’s Hope …
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Open space : theater and public life on the Central Artery
… it has its roots in pleasure. Located on the North End parcels of the central artery, my thesis project employs those programs that emerged right as this new understanding of the city dawned -- hotels, clubs, coffee shops, public promenades, restaurants, theaters, and pubs- to create spaces …
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The Pause: Re-Thinking Housing Through a Lens of Social Isolation and Loneliness
… a critical examination reveals a prevailing trend towards isolation within modern living spaces, fostering disconnection and loneliness. As an architect, I have tried to investigate the spatial and architectural barriers that hinder social cohesion, emphasizing the vital role of "pauses" in …
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