Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study
Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2017.
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| author | Castaños, Emma Isabel |
| author2 | Maria C. Yang. |
| author_facet | Maria C. Yang. Castaños, Emma Isabel |
| author_sort | Castaños, Emma Isabel |
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| description | Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2017. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1125702019-04-12T23:22:26Z Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study Castaños, Emma Isabel Maria C. Yang. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering. Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2017. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-59). This paper explores urban sanitation provision in the United States via a comparative case study of the freestanding public toilets in Boston and Cambridge. The research attempts to capture the influence of municipal institutions and local actors on public toilet design and location, and further attempts to assess to what degree the resulting design and location meet project stakeholders' own communicated priorities as well as anticipated user needs. This is an IRB approved project that engaged stakeholders through interviews and further corroborated online research with toilet block site visits. The study concluded that the Portland Loo design, while it lacked many amenities of the Automatic Public Toilet design, it is a more robust and suitable toilet for a high-demand and high-risk urban environment. by Emma Isabel Castaños. S.B. 2017-12-05T19:18:46Z 2017-12-05T19:18:46Z 2017 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112570 1013189004 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 59 pages application/pdf n-us-ma Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Mechanical Engineering. Castaños, Emma Isabel Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study |
| title | Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study |
| title_full | Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study |
| title_fullStr | Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study |
| title_short | Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study |
| title_sort | freestanding public toilet design and location in boston and cambridge a comparative case study |
| topic | Mechanical Engineering. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112570 |
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