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Community in the garden in the community : the development of an open space resource in Boston's South End
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Now a permanently protected type of open space, the community gardens in Boston's South End began in the early 1970's as an effort to utilize vacant land in what was a predominantly low-income neighborhood. Since then, the ...
Placelogging : mobile spatial annotation and its potential use to urban planners and designers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
With the rise of 'Mobile 2.0,' digital telecommunications are beginning to provide deep resources of information to mobile city dwellers. Particularly striking among recent applications is placelogging, defined here as the ...
Sowing a sense of place : an in-depth case study of changing youths' sense of places
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
In this dissertation I examine the change in youths' sense of urban and non-urban places brought about by involvement in a multi-site agriculture program. The concept of 'Place' is more than the biophysical and built ...
Energy consumption and smart growth in Massachusetts : does smart growth make a difference?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
With the environmental crisis involving climate change fast approaching, all potential mitigation techniques must be explored and implemented. A key approach comes from the power towns and cities have to influence land use ...
Incentive zoning and environmental quality in Boston's Fenway neighborhood
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
A density bonus, also called incentive zoning, is a conditional liberalization of zoning regulations, allowing a real estate development to exceed as-of-right density limits in exchange for the in-kind provision or purchase ...
Low income housing tax credit properties : non-profit disposition strategies in the Commonwealth
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis examines how non-profit owners in Massachusetts have maintained affordability and ownership of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties after the initial fifteen-year compliance period, at the lowest ...
Inventory planning for low demand items in online retailing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
A large online retailer strategically stocks inventory for SKUs with low demand. The motivations are to provide a wide range of selections and faster customer fulfillment service. We assume the online retailer has the ...
Identification of toxoplasma gondii genes involved in the strain-specific modulation of IL-12 cytokine secretion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular pathogen that causes life-threatening toxoplasmosis in developing fetuses and immune-compromised individuals. An immune response to a Toxoplasma infection is characterized by the ...
Design and development of high precision five-axis positioning system for roll-to-roll multi-layer microcontact printing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Microcontact printing is based on the use of elastomeric stamps to transfer ink onto a substrate taking advantage of the self-assembly process. Features as small as 300nm can be easily printed over an extended area. The ...
Designing density : building form and site design for contextually appropriate multi-family housing in Boston's inner-ring suburbs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This research focuses on multi-family residential development in the inner-ring suburbs around Boston in order to understand how dense housing can be designed in ways that are contextually appropriate for these existing ...