Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
Enactive Genesis: Toward Generative Architecture with Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence
(2021-06-09)Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are gaining increasing popularity in the domain of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. However, most of recent generative design workflows using image-based AI ... -
Encountering the Enigma: A Transformation of the Fulton Fish Market
(2021-05-20)With our increasingly advanced tools, we seem to be able to grasp the architectural object more exhaustively than ever in the most precise dimensions and countless components. However, this technical knowing does not give ... -
Equity and Climate Change Adaptation: Toward a Better Understanding of Resource Allocation
(2021-02-17)With climate change adaptation becoming ever more urgent, decisions about how to allocate adaptation resources have become increasingly important. For instance, should decision-makers in flood-prone areas fund a sea wall ... -
ERASURE
(2024-01-24)Despite technological advances in AR and VR, a clear dichotomy between virtual and real still dominates. Current augmented reality (AR) experiences—characterized by floating UIs and low-poly models—augment rather than merge ... -
Evaluation of the Environmental and Economic Impact of Urban Development vs. 20th Century Modern Heritage Conservation in Kuwait City
(2021-05-18)Following a law passed in 2004 alleviating maximum building height, historic architecture in Kuwait City is under threat of demolition and replacement by high rise buildings. The impact is three-fold: first, the demolition ... -
Expanded Domesticity: Visual Sequencing in Collective Housing
(2021-05-24)The essence of the neighborly or collective interaction has all but disappeared from the housing experience. As one moves between and occupies a series of similarly standardized rooms, glimpses may be caught of the outside ... -
Exploitive By Design: Warning Signs From the Northwest Amazon
(2021-05-19)This body of work concerns the impact of imposed capital and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries’ “Rubber Boom” and today’s 21st-century tourism industry in Iquitos, Peru, because there are parallels in the effects ... -
Expo-nential Futures: How Mega-Events Continually Reshape Milan
(2023-05-17)How have repeated mega-events in Milan changed the form and nature of the city? This thesis tracks threads between universal and particular conditions that influenced Milan’s decision to participate in Bureau International ... -
Extending Material Preservation: A Bridge Reconstruction Festival in a Chinese Rural Valley
(2021-05-19)This project explores the preservation of the Covered Bridge as heritage in a rural valley of Southeastern China and develops a form of resiliency for the local community against capitalist development. The Covered Bridges ... -
Extensive Welcome: Three-way Threshold at Chinatown’s Gate
(2023-01-06)Benevolent Associations have helped Chinese immigrants settle in America for more than a century. Not only do they harness Chinese American collectivity for a voice in local governments, but they also offer classes and ... -
Extracting Reparative Power: redistributing power in post-mining transition
(2023-05-17)This thesis explores landscape as a medium for ecological reparation in the energy transition by pairing renewable energy infrastructure with regenerative agriculture. The project's goal is to visualize the reorganization ... -
Field Anfractuous - Retrospection on Fluid Architecture and Difficult Arts
(2023-05-23)“Difficult Arts,” a post-AI era term, is closely related to a particular style of architecture that gained attraction and quite a favorable reputation in the mid-nineteenth century. Given its characteristics, techniques, ... -
Fluid Permanence: A Shotengai-Archive in Tokyo
(2022-04-01)Today Tokyo stands as a “brand new city”. Buildings are regularly uprooted to make way for new buildings that completely wipe out traces of the previous structure. The idea of a propelling monument, as described by Aldo ... -
Form Transition: Decarbonization Beyond Settler Modernity
(2021-06-30)Recent discourse about climate change and the spotlight it has put on global energy systems have raised calls for new relationships to energy under a variety of open-ended terms: decarbonization, energy transition, green ... -
Formerly a Stranger's House: Reflections on Shophouse Typology
(2023-01-05)This thesis brings forth the Southeast Asian vernacular shophouse as a resilient type loaded with memory, and reads its variations over time alongside local socio-political histories as fodder to question future possibilities ... -
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 ... -
Fortress Science: The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy
(2021-02-09)The production of space as an internal condition to the scientific production of knowledge is an under investigated and seldom theorized process within the studies of science, technology, and society (STS), and the spatial ... -
Fragile Rules for Reading
(2023-05-24)This thesis aims to address those inheritances which have been managed into images of solidity, inheritances of game and study wrapped up in seemingly closed worlds. The playing field is one such world, one which aligns ... -
Fringe Benefits: Accessories for a Bulldoze City
(2023-05-22)Urban sprawl is the result of giving cars priority over people in the design of our cities. Designing buildings for the automobile as the audience results in larger, faster registrations of architecture, removing human-scaled ...