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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"Urban Form"”.
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A choiceful urban form.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1968. M.Arch.
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Transportation and urban form.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1966. M.Arch.
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Towards sustainable architecture and urban form
Traditional architectural and urban artefacts are showed over the centuries as a powerful imprint of human actions and practices and are being developed on the basis of concrete socio-cultural factors and environmental rationalities. Spatial and morphological patterns of traditional environments …
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POWERSTRUCTURES : the urban form of regulations
… thesis aims to explore the relationship between urban form and law, regulation and policy in the built environment. It depicts the roots, the necessity and exponential growth of regulations across the urbanized world and portrays their effects on urban design and architecture. Through several …
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Barcelona : the transformation of urban form
Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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.... but what is good urban form?
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983.
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Technology and urban form, Chicago 1830-1972
… to trace the influences which are exerted on the urban environment by changing developments in technology, operating in combination with social, economic and political factors, and to study the results of these influences by observing the evolving forms and conditions of the city at particular …
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Modeling Outdoor Air Pollution and the Urban Form
… pollutant dispersion modeling within dense urban environments such as urban canyons. An open-source platform such as OpenFOAM is valuable as it can be fully customized for the varying intricacies of urban airflow and is accessible to a wide audience. This thesis develops a solver for aerial …
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Celebration of place : processional rituals and urban form
… social and temporal dimension of the static form of the built environment. This study endeavors to understand the means by which meaning was added to the form, space and character of the built environment by these processional rituals. Processional rituals influence and are influenced by …
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Light and the urban form: Eisenhower Metro Center
… a radical change in how they build cities. Urban areas across the nation are growing with multiple cores called "Edge Cities." These new centers do not look like our old city downtowns where buildings stood side by side, but rather their low broad outlines dot the landscape like cattle along …
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Urban form as a transportation interchange: a formal theory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1966. M.Arch.
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A study of urban form in 18th-century Beijing
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Locally appropriate sustainable urban form: the case of Sukhumvit Superblock
… ought to be integrated to achieve sustainable urban form. A specific framework for defining global and local sustainability and ways in which they can be accommodated and delivered through locally distinctive patterns of form is central to the current research. The aim of the research is to …
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Transit usage and urban form : lessons for transit reliant neighborhoods
… automobility have revealed themselves in the form of urban sprawl, energy depletion, air and noise pollution, climate change, road fatalities, and segregation of people by class and race. For the sake of social equity and sustainability, it is thus important to increase reliance on transit …
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New towns from gowns : urban form and placemaking at college campuses
… town" -a quintessentially American ideal city formcan provide a very high quality of life, both for students of college-age and for faculty, alumni, and retirees who choose to live in these towns. But what if the existing town falls short? In recent years, several universities in North America …
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The desert city within : notions about urban form for Phoenix, Arizona
… of 300 days of sunshine. The Architectural form does not reflect such a climate. Phoenix has been labeled the "City of the 21st Century," because it is a prime example of the phenomenal expansion of cities that had just begun to blossom in the last twenty years. Currently, the city is …
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Conceptual urbanism : towards a method of urban form and urban design
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.
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The shape of segregation : the role of urban form in immigrant assimilation
… combined with geometric indicators for urban shape at the block level. Using these data, I construct measures of segregation over time to evaluate the degree to which individuals from different origins, share building space with other immigrants or with the native-born Spaniards. …
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Gender difference in daily activity patterns, urban form, and intra-household interactions
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.
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