Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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A Cultural Approach to Conserving Water: A Case Study on the Azraq Oasis
(2018-03-15)My dissertation aims to design a proposed solution by studying and better understanding the specific cultural related issues of water conservation. Water, a valuable element of life, has had and continues to have a ... -
Accessibility Impacts of Transit Development Areas in Seoul
(2020-07-08)This dissertation used multidimensional assessment methods for transit development areas associated with accessibility, land use, building density and diversity, population, socio-economic, and transit connections. The ... -
Between the Past and Future: The Transformation of the Pearl River Delta
(2019-10-15)Between the Past and Future: The Transformation of the Pearl River Delta examines the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and its spatial transformation from 1370 to present. It unravels the complex evolution of the Pearl River Delta ... -
Decision-Making Support in Early Design Stage for High Performance Naturally Ventilated Buildings
(2018-03-15)While a lack of design decision-making support for natural ventilation evaluation in the early stage is noticeable, the interest in high performance naturally ventilated buildings has been rapidly growing in recent years. ... -
Designing Green Walls: An Early-Design Framework to Estimate the Cooling Impact of Indirect Green Walls on Buildings in Six Different Climates
(2018-03-20)Green walls are a component of urban green infrastructure and if designed properly, require only moderate human intervention and maintenance during their lifespans (Cameron, Taylor, & Emmett, 2014). The benefits of green ... -
Emerging Consumer Cities - Mixed land use, amenities and housing prices in Shanghai
(2018-11-08)This research quantitatively studies how mixed land-use planning impacts the housing prices in Shanghai. To answer the question, I collected data and constructed a database on housing price and land use to measure the ... -
Forms of Ecology: Towards New Epistemological Binds Between Landscape Architecture and Ecology
(2018-05-15)Forms of Ecology examines the main narratives through which ecology has come to the forefront of landscape architecture during the last two decades, criticizes their reductive implications for design, and proposes a series ... -
Green Apparatus: Ecology of the American House According to Building Codes
(2018-05-02)In 2008, California introduced the first-in-the-nation Green Building Standards Code to encourage sustainable construction practices. While the adoption of the CALGreen Code marked a significant moment in the process of ... -
Grounding the Cloud
(2018-03-20)This dissertation explores the dynamic relationship between material formations of data and the processes of data-driven urbanization within an increasingly planetary context. In this pursuit the project articulates the ... -
Grounding UPS: An Infrastructural Ethnography of a Logistics Corporation
(2018-05-21)United Parcel Service Inc., universally known as UPS, is the largest shipping company in the world. Holding one of the largest cargo airlines, continental ground networks, and oceanic freight forwarding systems across the ... -
Living on the Skyline: Rooftop Housing in Seoul, Hong Kong, and Taipei
(2020-07-08)Rooftop housing is a living urban legacy, encapsulating the history of the city as well as the evolving needs of its people. This study explores rooftop housing in Seoul, Hong Kong, and Taipei. In all three cities, the ... -
Measure of Abstraction: Embodied Fabrication and the Materiality of Intimacy
(2017-02-07)This thesis presents a theoretical and practical research conducted for the last 4 years on interactive fabrication. Interactive fabrication is an emerging field and takes as a starting point with the numerical control ... -
Multiscale Thermal Design for Buildings
(2016-11-01)This dissertation investigates the principles, processes, and strategies to develop multiscale material systems for buildings that interact with heat in novel ways. The overall theoretical framework consists of (1) utilizing ... -
Power Play: Leaders and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Making of Shenzhen
(2020-02-25)Since its inception, Shenzhen has been widely understood by both academics and the public alike as a city whose development is, and has been, primarily driven by strong market forces. However, if one looks beyond the surface ... -
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 ... -
Schemas in a Design Problem: Building in Seismic Regions Diversely Considered
(2020-02-25)In most design problems, there are multiple schemas, or ways or orienting and organizing the knowledge content in the problem domain, and which by extension defines the range and bearing of solutions. This dissertation ... -
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 ... -
Socio-Spatial (In)Equality of Access to Urban Green Space: A Case in Beijing
(2020-02-25)Green space, as an important component of urban system, deliver multiple benefits to urban residents. From an ecosystem service perspective, these benefits include: provisioning services, regulating services, supporting ... -
Spaceport: Technical Lands for Departing Earth
(2020-07-08)Spaceport: Technical Lands for Departing Earth proposes a new way of understanding how technological uses of place-based science was designed and imagined for both industrial and military activities in postwar America. It ... -
Spatial Distribution of Urban Territories at a Regional Scale: Modeling the Changjiang Delta’s Urban Network
(2016-05-18)The formation of ‘Urban Networks’ has become a wide-spread phenomenon around the world. In the study of metropolitan regions, there are competing or diverging views about management and control of environmental and land-use ...