Browsing by Keyword "Urbanism"
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The Body and the Building: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the transformation of the French built environment alongside medical discourses of the body in the early 19th century, arguing that emerging theories on health and hygiene comprised a politically ... -
Dissolving Urbanism: Trans-scalar Spatial Framework for Water Integration
(2023-05-17)This thesis research investigates a spatial framework to effectively address urban water management in Chennai, a city facing extreme hydrological events and climate change-induced challenges. Given the inadequacies of ... -
Land Form Architecture: Bridging the Narrative of Korean Urbanism
(2023-06-27)Korea, as compact as one could imagine, is dominated by housing complexes that resemble factories of living cells. These literal house-building machines constructed through re-useable concrete formwork are endlessly repeated ... -
Metabolic Urbanism: Epistemologies, Lineages, and Prospects
(2021-06-09)Every building, infrastructure, or city is the spatial manifestation of metabolizing multiple materials, energy, labor relations, and capital investments from local and distant sources. Yet, an overemphasis on specific ... -
The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter
(2021-05-18)The desert, commonly understood as a barren and infertile landscape, is not empty. This thesis reads the desert landscape as an archive full of social, economic, and political narratives using the Empty Quarter as a case ... -
Urbanism and Autonomy
(2021-06-09)This dissertation introduces urbanism to the discourse on autonomy within design. Autonomy is a critical method in design, engaging the social, economic, political, racial, gender, or environmental tensions derived from ...