Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "architecture"
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Airport Urbanism: The Urban Infrastructure of Global Mobility
(2013-02-19)Around the world, the number of air passengers has quintupled since 1980. During the same time, air traffic in the Pearl River Delta--the urban region that includes Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou--has risen by a factor ... -
All Above: Visual Culture and the Professionalization of City Planning, 1867-1931
(2013-02-11)This dissertation is developed around questions of how cultural fascinations with seeing the city from above are intertwined with the birth and development of the city planning profession. To explore this question, I examine ... -
Architectures of Global Communication: Psychoacoustics, Acoustic Space, and the Total Environment, 1941-1970
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines architectural engagements with communication technologies, within the framework of mid-twentieth-century efforts to institute a global community and engineer media democracies. I interrogate the ... -
The Army Post as Design Laboratory: Experiments in Urban Planning and Architecture, 1917-1948
(2013-03-18)This dissertation examines the engagement of civilian designers in United States Army post architecture and planning between 1917 and 1948. During those years, the built environment of the Army was fundamentally transformed, ... -
Imagining the Garden: Childhood, Landscape, and Architecture in Early Pedagogy, 1761-1850
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines childhood, education, and designed environments as interrelated concerns. It explores the ways in which, in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, gardens and architecture were understood ... -
Political Designs: Architecture and Urban Renewal in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1973
(2012-09-17)This dissertation considers the impact of the U.S. civil rights movement on postwar urban design and urban policy, looking specifically at the case of urban renewal, a federal program of urban reconstruction intended to ... -
Producing the Public: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Immigration in a Swedish Town, 1965 to the Present
(2013-02-26)European modernist architectural design and urban planning for suburbs have often been theorized as dystopic creation myths. These narratives focus on the unfulfilled promises of activist designers to deliver equality, ... -
Towards a New Hospital: Architecture, Medicine, and Computation, 1960-75
(2014-06-06)This dissertation provides an account of how computing left behind its origins in academic and military research to become part of the hospital's equipmental setting. I examine the efforts of reformers, including administrators, ...