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Showing 1 to 20 of 420 for “"suburbs"”.
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Reprogramming the Suburbs
… day convert massive and sprawling cookie-cutter suburbs into denser, more sustainable, and more diverse neighborhoods which serve a wider array of residents better while contributing additional housing and other resources to the broader population.
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Evolving the Suburbs
The single family home is a building type synonymous with residential architecture among many in the United States. The notion that the ideal built character of a dwelling is a private structure, built on private land, and owned by a private entity is as old as that ownership equating to power in …
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Rehabbing the suburbs : freedom to change
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.
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Designing for Health in the Suburbs
… are understood, so why haven't American suburbs adapted to address the health issues we have created for ourselves? My thesis is an attempt to answer the question of how suburbs can be changed (/evolved) to encourage socially, environmentally, personally healthy environments. As a future …
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Shared landscapes : building connections in the suburbs
American suburbs are repeatedly assailed for being placeless, with restrictive zoning that isolates the public realm from the private. Critics accuse the suburbs of over-emphasizing castle-like detached single family homes at the expense of civic or community spaces. Recent interest in mixed-use …
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Subsidized housing in the suburbs: legislation or litigation?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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Homebuilders and the suburbs in the 1970's.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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Some Political Effects of the Functional Differentiation of Suburbs
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Invisible Suburbs: Privatized Growth in Suburban Metropolitan Denver, 1950-2000
… were cities in all but name. These “invisible suburbs” overwhelmed county, regional, and state efforts to integrate these new communities seamlessly into the metropolitan area. Privatized development carried socioeconomic, civic, financial, and environmental implications for the region and its …
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The Interwar Suburbs of North West London: Planning for regeneration
… cities. For the past thirty years, the interwar suburbs of North West London have seen a changing population, rising levels of deprivation and a deteriorating built environment. Exploring these changes and the role of local centres as foci for regeneration and revitalisation, twelve centres are …
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Gentrification through Public Participation? Acceptance and Resistance in Calgary’s Inner Suburbs
This research examines the role of public participation in the planning process and its influence on suburban gentrification. Previous literature has critiqued the exclusionary nature of consensus-building and collaboration in urban planning processes, but there is little connection in the …
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Predicting House Sale Prices in Newly Developed Suburbs Without Historical Sales
… trend of housing developers designing masterplan suburbs based on new urbanist principles to solve the housing crisis all around the world. The aim of this study is to anticipate the value of housing features in recently developed suburbs using a Bayesian approach, and investigate the price …
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Energy conservation implication through polynucleated city structure : reorganization of U.S. suburbs
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Damn the city, dam the suburbs : redefining the single family home
… white Americans began leaving the city for the suburbs. Buying a home, or investing in a future home through the purchase of war bonds, was a patriotic duty. With money from the GI Bill, developments like Levittown made it easy for Americans to invest in this government "propaganda." Much like …
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Latina health geographies and intervening community-based organizations in the Chicago suburbs
… appropriate health care in the Chicago suburbs. Specifically, how are the space-time constraints Latina immigrant women experience managed when accessing linguistically appropriate health care, and how are the interventions on these barriers community organizations in these communities …
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A regional assessment of transit-oriented office development opportunities in Boston's suburbs
… traffic congestion and long commute times. The suburbs account for a significant share of Eastern Massachusetts office employment. Yet, the MBTA Commuter Rail primarily serves a single purpose, transporting suburban residents to and from their workplaces in Boston. Only a small share of morning …
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Advancing TOD in Boston's suburbs : advantages and obstacles in the entitlement process
… development (TOD) within existing suburbs. I have focused on the entitlement phase of projects, during which land is rezoned, permits are granted and development agreements are struck. Municipalities and developers must work together during this process, and I sought to understand …
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Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island
<p>“Suburbs in Black and White” examines how economic development shaped African American suburbanization on Long Island, New York from 1920 through 1980. After 1940, the fortunes of Long Island’s growing black population shifted from widespread poverty to upward social mobility, though by the …
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Modelling public transport mode choice for low-income residential suburbs in Harare, Zimbabwe
… preference data collected from five high-density suburbs in Harare (n = 361) to investigate the influence of service quality indicators to travel mode choice decisions. Multinomial, mixed, and latent class logit models are developed under the random utility maximisation framework and compared to …
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