Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Spatial Opportunities for Self-Produced Environments
(2021-05-17)Physical planning has contributed to perpetuating spatial inequality in Caracas, Venezuela, a dynamic that has many parallelisms with other processes that result in social and economic inequalities in Latin America. The ... -
Spherical deployable shield for robot arm
(2021-05-18)This thesis focuses on the construction of deployable shields for robot arms in extraterrestrial situations that protect them from possible threats by minimizing the area of the robot's end-effector that is exposed to ... -
Stacked Daydreams: Ceiling-scape for the Neglected (Hong Kong Factory Adaptive-Reuse for Elderly Care)
(2021-01-20)This thesis operates at the intersection of three domains of neglect: 1. In the realm of building elements, the ceiling is often considered as an afterthought in the design process. 2. Across building types, the vertical ... -
Sticking Together: Community-Controlled Housing in New York City
(2022-05-18)In New York City, ever-increasing housing costs and threats of displacement have led to a renewed interest in community-controlled housing—housing where community members are involved in the structuring, ownership, and ... -
Stir-Fry Urbanism: Geography of Chinese Restaurants and the Spatial Politics of Race and Iden-tity in Boston’s Urban Development 1880 – 2020
(2022-06-08)If you think of McDonald's as the icon of American food, America might taste more like General Tso Chicken than a Cheeseburger. There are currently over 45,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., more than all the McDonald's, ... -
Street Choreography
(2022-05-18)Street Choreography elevates the dynamic qualities of the city, designing through sequence, time, and experience. The street is highly regulated, often defined by its boundaries and limitations rather than its movements ... -
Subject-Object Ambivalence: An Archival Institution
(2021-01-20)The project of Subject-Object Ambivalence is to design a cultural institution which privileges, and spatializes, Blackness. In this new vision of cultural space, individuals occupy both the subject and object positions. ... -
Suburbia as Tool of Soft Power Projection: A Case Study of Washington Heights Dependents Housing Area, Tokyo (1946-61) and the Proselytizing of the Garden Suburb for Rebuilding Japan under GHQ
(2021-05-18)During the Allies’ occupation of Japan between 1945 and 1952, Japanese architectural and industrial design expertise was mobilized by the American leadership to provide for the housing needs of the occupying forces. The ... -
Supply Chain as a Design Medium: The Case of West African Cocoa
(2022-06-08)In this master’s level thesis, I look at supply chains as a medium for design and examine the concept of supply chain design within global political economy. Focusing on cocoa grown and harvested in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, ... -
Surviving Survival: Landscape Futures for Climate Catastrophe
(2021-05-19)This thesis advocates for landscape architecture to mitigate risk and plan for adaptation to catastrophic climate events. It develops an adaptive response and critique of Tacloban, the Philippines, as it responded to Typhoon ... -
Synthetic Ecologies: Design and the Ecological Imagination
(2021-02-16)The present historical condition has been characterized by the impasse between two seemingly opposing narratives, one of modernization, mastery, and progress (usually associated to economic growth), and another of ... -
Tectonic Inflections: Additions Logic
(2021-05-24)"Tectonic Inflections: Ruling Logics" investigates the confluence between form and tectonic assembly through the typology of the add-on. Architectural confluence, as described by Nader Tehrani, is the merging of structure, ... -
TEOTWAWKI: A Designer's Guide to Prepping
(2021-05-18)Preparing, colloquially known as “prepping,” is a political act that can be read through the medium of landscape, extending from the colonization of the United States to the present. While mainstream media portrays preppers ...