Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Raindrop Prelude
(2023-05-23)Modernism drew hard lines to distinguish between human, nature, and machine, three key players forming where we live and what we use as tools. Being the sole agents, humans have utilized nature and machine as entities ... -
Real-time Architecture: Quantifying the Spatial Performance of Workplaces
(2023-09-22)The shift from traditional 9:00 am to 5:00 pm work hours to more flexible work arrangements in white-collar knowledge-based private companies has increased the emphasis on minimizing workplace spatial footprint. While ... -
Recess Reimagined: The Intergenerational Campus
(2024-01-24)This thesis project tackles Los Angeles' severe housing crisis, evident in the Los Angeles Housing Element, while also addressing the urban heat island effect, social isolation, and a growing aging population. Elementary ... -
Reciprocal Optimism: Projecting Terrestrial Analogues
(2022-05-18)Human intervention is going extraterrestrial, and landscape architecture is going with it. This thesis positions landscape architecture as essential to taking measure of places yet to be touched in the Anthropocene, now ... -
Reciprocal Ruination: Nature & New York City
(2021-06-02)This thesis is set in New York City, between the years of 2060 and 2300, a period in which the earlier warnings had escalated to full, protracted cataclysm. In the eventful first half of the 21st century, the United States ... -
Red Star Rising: The Coverage of Mikhail Gorbachev by U.S. Network Television, 1984-86
My dissertation presents a case study of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's coverage by U.S. television news. This work aims to increase the current understanding of both the effect of politicians on the media, and the ... -
Reforesting Fort Ord
(2024-05-17)This thesis examines the potential for the conservation of Monterey pine biodiversity through the active planting of an experimental forest in the Impact Area of Fort Ord: a former US military firing range soon to become ... -
Repair in Spaces of Exception: The Encampment of Refugees in Jordan
(2023-05-17)Refugee camps, although designed and perceived as temporary structures that support communities in times of crisis, are long-lasting. On average, a refugee spends seventeen years living in a camp. In Jordan, a 74-year-old ... -
Reparative Planning in Theory and Practice: The Case of The Alliance for Community Transit - Los Angeles
(2021-05-19)This thesis investigates the case of the Alliance for Community Transit Los Angeles as an example of reparative planning ‘in action’. Over the past few decades urban planning not only moved from a technocratic, topdown ... -
Rereading Migration: Corridors of Circulation, Bordering, and Inhabitation
(2023-10-25)Infrastructural corridors of circulation and connectivity form the backbone of the colonial project of modernity, facilitating its rise, expansion, and domination over the past centuries. Contrary to the spatial imaginaries ... -
Rest Stop Vending Machine, California (2033)
(2022-05-18)In the federal highway rest stop there are parking spots, picnic benches, a shade structure or two, and an irrigated lawn. There is also a vending machine. Vending machines are, by law, the only commercial activity allowed ... -
Rooms without Programs
(2021-01-20)The concept of housing has undergone various changes throughout the history. Once, it used to be a dwelling where different domestic activities took place in a room or a building without spatial divisions. As time passed, ... -
Sanctuary State: California's Cowscape in Transition
(2023-05-17)Sanctuary State, set in an idealized future in which cows are not exploited for meat or dairy, transforms an 800-acre feedlot into a sanctuary, a healing site for cows. Feedlots, common in California’s San Joaquin Valley, ... -
Sea Level Rise and Housing Affordability in Small Coastal Communities: A Case Study in Maine
(2022-05-18)Significant portions of the United States’ coastal housing stock are vulnerable to inundation in coming decades. This will cause a direct loss of housing, result in higher prices for homes that are not vulnerable to flooding, ... -
Seadoo Seaway: Four Tales of Cultural Imaginaries and Climate Futures on the Trent-Severn
(2024-05-16)Water, ice, and snow are key figures of Canadian cultural identity, and rightly so as Canada has more bodies of water than the rest of the world combined. This cohabitation with water has sponsored a unique cultural ... -
Seeding Grounds: Working Beyond Arcadia in the Pyrocene
(2024-05-16)From drought to fire, Australia’s landscapes face multiple existential threats. A response to the tectonic loss of life in the 2019-2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires, Seeding Grounds: Working Beyond Arcadia in the Pyrocene, ... -
Shifting Scales of Urban Transformation: The emergence of the Marmara Urban Region between 1990 and 2015
(2016-05-17)Provincial borders and metropolitan theories are insufficient to explain the scale and dynamics of İstanbul’s contemporary urban development. The mega projects of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) such as the İzmit ... -
Simulation? Machine Learning? Simulation X Machine Learning?: A decision system for research integrating building physic simulation and machine learning methods in the early design stage
(2022-06-08)Researchers have leveraged machine learning technologies and physics-based simulation in predicting daylight and other factors relevant to building energy consumption. However, this is still an emerging research area with ... -
Single Non-family Home
(2022-05-24)Travel is inherent to the development of our social instincts, used as a means to raise our sensitivities to unfamiliar contexts and peoples. The act of travel itself had architectural impositions during one’s journey. ... -
SocioLens: Potentials and challenges of large-scale social media data to understand human behavior in cities
(2023-10-25)Urban scholars can now investigate complex phenomena on a larger scale and with lower costs, thanks to the advancements in big data collection and analyses. Among these data sources, social media data has been argued to ...