Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Of Two Minds: Excavating the Split Estate
(2021-05-18)The split estate is a political-legal framework in the United States that severs surface property from subsurface. This effectively duplicates available property in the United States and establishes a palimpsest of ownership ... -
Of Unfrozen Waters
(2022-05-18)Of Unfrozen Waters adaptation for the deep thaw Retreating sea ice and coastlines are resulting in habitat loss for human and non-human species. A deep investigation into the flux of Arctic materials reveals a need for ... -
Oil and Leisure: Narrative Landforms for Curaçao
(2023-05-19)‘Like Oil and Leisure’ is a reimagining of Curaçao’s central harbor and beating heart, Schottegat. This port is home to the now-retired Refinery Isla, leaving an enormous economic and social gap that the refinery has filled ... -
Omnipresence: Machine Vision in the Adversarial City
(2024-05-16)This work follows the trail of Omnipresence, a mobile program of public safety lighting in New York City. Unpacking its historical and design precedents, it argues that Omnipresence is just the latest component of an urban ... -
On the mathematics of Memetics
(2022-06-08)As technology, embeds itself in almost every facet of our society, new rules of interacting and signalling emerge, specifically in the case of mass communication. These new imitated non-genetic behaviours that are called ... -
On Vision: The Science and Cultural History of Spatial Perception and Imagination
(2021-05-20)This thesis investigates the relationship between evolving modes of visual perception and the space of architecture. The design of architecture is intimately linked to the way space is imagined to be seen, and thus to the ... -
Open City: Applying Participatory Planning Theory to Open Data Initiatives
(2023-05-17)Open data initiatives are nearly a decade old and are purported to foster government transparency, public accessibility, and civic engagement; the open data portal is the material expression of these initiatives and is the ... -
"Our History is our Resource": Historic Narrative as Urban Planning Strategy in Chicago's Pullman Neighborhood
(2023-05-17)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ways that site and neighborhood history can potentially inform material neighborhood development in the present. The investigation focused on Pullman, a historic area on the ... -
Our Village: a Queer Paradise in the 1980s
(2021-05-25)A drag queen is as American Dream as a suburban house surrounded by a white picket fence. Drag performance is more than entertainment in a night club: it is a way of expressing, dreaming, commenting, and escaping the ... -
Outside-In: A Hybrid Domestic Typology
(2024-01-24)With the increasing phenomenon of global migration and cultural diffusion today, fundamental questions of integration and assimilation remain an ongoing theme in the United States. Immigration has emerged as a very decisive, ... -
Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum as Evolution Lab
(2021-05-19)This thesis explores the role of evolutionary biology in landscape architecture, examining designed landscapes as potential drivers for species evolution. It argues that any landscape design makes direct and immediate ... -
Pair of Dice, Para-Dice, Paradise: A Counter-Memorial to Victims of Police Brutality
(2021-01-20)Recently, America was once again awoken by protests spurred on by the unjust murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and several others; but this phenomenon is nothing new. America has always had a healthy tolerance for ... -
Parallel Participation: A New Way to Engage in Mexico City’s Urban Planning
(2022-05-18)My research examines how a group of middle-class Mexico City residents engaged in municipal planning by mobilizing against the Desnivel Mixcoac underpass (2014-2017). I argue that residents rejected formal “participatory” ... -
Permanent Impermanence with the House in Three Climates or Living and Perceiving with Material Temporal Cycles
(2023-05-23)In a civilization of rapid temporality and supposed linear progress, a human-nature dichotomy proliferates from our ways of living all the way to the building wall section. As our temporal rhythm of the solar movement ... -
Personal Robot: navigator in the lattice world
(2022-06-08)This thesis describes the microscopic origin of the city as the infinite lattice world. Cities have their own structures. Some are criticized for having a physical layout that defines a hierarchy of dominant social groups. ... -
Photobiological Material Systems: Spectrally-Selective Surfaces for the Regulation of Indoor Alertness
(2024-02-20)Color, light, and their interaction within the built environment have always been pertinent spatial and aesthetic factors that architects consider in their work; however, their study has been limited to a primarily perceptual ... -
Planning Climate Philanthropy
(2021-05-19)Nearly every local climate plan in the United States is, in some way, funded by philanthropic sources, whether through direct underwriting of government programs, capacity building, sponsorship of academic research, or ... -
Planning for Urban Satisfaction
(2022-06-08)This paper aims to examine the strengths and weaknesses of social media platforms and proposes a vision for a better platform to invite bottom-up citizen participation in data-driven urban planning for urban satisfaction. ... -
PLANTATION FUTURES: Foregrounding Lost Narratives
(2023-05-17)Oak Alley Plantation, located in Louisiana, is preserved as a master narrative: a cultural heritage landscape reflecting the values and cultures of the Antebellum era. Reconstructed cabins in the rear of the property stand ...