Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
Plantation Futures: Foregrounding Lost Narratives
(2023-05-19)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 ... -
Platforms: re-framing urban relocation through an ownership model for resident-led transformations of the built environment
(2021-01-20)Changing economic, demographic, and technological forces are shaping new balances of power across the planet. Systems of exchange fueled by urbanization, regional dynamism, the commodification of land, and increasingly ... -
Playing with Fire: Three Stories of Burning the Forest
(2021-05-17)This thesis follows the language of fire between three characters and a forest in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. In this region, growing interest in the “good fire” of prescribed burning is routinely ... -
Power of Narratives and Narratives of Power: Storytelling of, in, and for Placemaking in “Nantou Ancient City” in Shenzhen, China
(2021-05-18)Urban planning and placemaking are in part implemented through storytelling. What are the dominant and demotic or popular narratives of, in, and for placemaking during the regeneration process of urban villages recently ... -
Pōhaku, Kalo, Wai: Stewardship in Contemporary Hawai’i
(2022-05-19)The bottoms of the deep, verdant green cliffs of Limahuli Valley were once terraced in stone pools of soaking kalo (Colocasia esculenta). Kalo is more than plant, its presence extends into mythology and origin. The old ... -
Practicing Spatial Justice: Design-Organizing for Abolition
(2024-05-15)This project presents a critique of the profession of landscape architecture, extending the liability of a licensed professional to include accountability for slow, systemic violence, in addition to individual health, ... -
Priorities in building decarbonization: Accounting for total carbon and the time value of carbon in cost-benefit analyses of residential retrofits.
(2022-06-08)Energy consumption in new construction is decreasing thanks to stricter building codes, but few codes limit emissions of existing buildings, particularly in existing homes. This study investigates the carbon- and ... -
Project for a Model, Sacramento: Waste Objecthood, Indeterminacy, and the As-found
(2021-05-27)Insofar as architecture can be considered a medium at all, it is a medium first and foremost of preformed material objects, objects with histories of their own. This thesis seeks to develop an alternative environmental ... -
Public Housing, Private Landlords: Managing Poverty with Patient Capital
(2021-05-19)Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) across the United States are running substantial financial deficits and having to curtail operating costs. To fill this funding gap, PHAs have turned to HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration ... -
Public Water Works, or, Staying Cool at the Pool
(2024-05-16)This project seeks to reimagine the municipal pool; reinforcing it as a vital urban space, and reprioritizing it in the climate crisis. As New England anticipates extreme heat, Boston must respond with creative infrastructures ... -
Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing in Brazil: Promises and Pitfalls
(2023-05-17)This thesis examines the adoption of Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) in the delivery of affordable housing in Brazil. Using as a case study São Paulo’s Casa Paulista Program, the country’s first P3 for affordable housing, ...