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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ...