Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
Fringe: Negotiating the Ground beyond Conservation in Hong Kong
(2021-05-19)This thesis challenges the boundary condition of the broad and diverse canon of nature conservation that emphasizes the binaries between human and nature. Situated in Hong Kong, a highly populated yet forest enveloped city, ... -
From Forecasting to Scenario Planning: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles
(2021-10-13)Efforts to forecast travel demand have led to the development of complex models which attempt to replicate human daily actions, choices, and movements. However, a growing body of literature suggests that the complexity of ... -
From Hinterland to Hinterglobe
(2021-09-29)From Hinterland to Hinterglobe investigates urbanization as a mode of generalized geographical organization in which agglomerations, although covering no more than 3% of the total land surface, are connected to the ... -
From Humboldt to Caldas: On Environmental Liberations by Means of Tropical Altitudinalization
(2021-05-20)When we stand on earth and think of the world in latitudinal terms, we are minimal, yet this is the world we attempt to conquer and pretend to comprehend. When we stand at low altitudes in the tropics, in front of tropical ... -
FROM PASTURE TO PRESERVATION : CATTLE AND CATALYZING AGRICULTURE AND REFORESTATION
(2023-05-17)Terceira Island, part of the Azores archipelago, is known for being home to more cows than people, its dairy industry, and its booming tourism. However, overgrazing and the influx of visitors threaten the island's agricultural ... -
'Functional Follies' for an Urban Slum
(2021-01-20)“The challenge for Africa is no less than the restoration of its intellectual freedom and a capacity to create—without which no sovereignty is conceivable.”1 The general attitude toward architecture on the African ... -
Gendered Sao Paulo: Towards an equal city for all.
(2023-05-17)Cities are complex sociopolitical, economic, and cultural organizations perceived and used differently based on social class, gender, and race. This thesis acknowledges many voices were omitted in the urbanization of Sao ... -
Go Listen to the Mountain: Propagating the Sacred from 'Holler to Hilltop
(2023-05-17)Go Listen to the Mountain is a journey intended to enliven in people dormant sacred landscape relationships that are critical for successful ecological stewardship. Located in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains, it ... -
Governance Capacity Towards Floods: the provision and social impacts of FEMA grants
(2022-06-08)In this thesis, I consider the effect of climate change related flooding threats on relations between national, state, and local governments. I examine the relationship between previous FEMA claims of property losses ... -
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 ... -
Halftone Dissonance
(2022-06-08)This thesis aims to induce a public conversation in the public sphere. The COVID-19 pandemic public health policies and social isolation altered the way people interact, while consumer culture has increased and shifted. ... -
Hanok, Stacked: An Alternative Urban Housing for the New Family
(2022-04-01)Around the world the concept and the demographics of ‘family’ have been changing. Especially in the developed countries, the 4-person heterosexual nuclear family ideal has begun to break down with increasing interests in ... -
Harnessing Dynamics: Exploring Scale & Coastal Infrastructure in the Arctic
(2022-04-01)Infrastructure is crucial for survival in extreme environments. However, it is often built with little consideration for its environmental context or the broader needs of the community it serves. In the Arctic, small coastal ... -
Heliomorph
(2023-01-05)Heliomorph is an investigation in testing the feedback loop of using solar geometry for architecture’s ability to react, transform, and inform existing and new architecture. Heavily influenced by the work Ralph Knowles ... -
Here Lies Darby Vassall: Rendering the obscured and concealed history of slavery at Christ Church Cambridge
(2022-06-08)The material conditions of “historic” preservation and institutional presentation communicate a particular version of the past through, what the late historian and professor of geography, David Lowenthal, terms selective ...