Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
The Vascularization of Buildings: Micro- to Milli-Scale Flow Systems for Heating and Cooling in the Built Environment
(2018-03-15)Things are getting smaller. Energy use is getting bigger. These statements roughly summarize the current state of the material sciences and climate control in buildings, respectively. This thesis presents a novel opportunity ... -
Understanding Design Responsibility in Human Health: A Case-Study Approach for Evaluating Sunlight Use in Chilean Public Housing and Its Lack of Design Variability
(2018-03-20)Given the importance of sunlight on human health and how the built environment influences human interaction with sunlight, does the design of public housing in Chile address the country’s large geographic variation in order ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
What Brings More People to Parks? Open Space Environment and Visitation in Tokyo
(2018-11-08)In dense urban settings, efficient use of land is a crucial issue. Especially, urban parks take a large amount of space in high land value areas. Creating an attractive park environment for current and future visitors has ... -
Walking Culture in China
(2019-10-15)Due to its potential significance to both individuals and society, walking as a type of transport mode or physical activity has been intensively discussed by scholars in urban planning and public health fields. However, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...