Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Land use planning"
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Building Backward: Archaeology of a Queer Built Future
(2023-01-11)Any center forms an edge. In Marseille, France – a city built on concrete and tile production – the spirit of industrial progress has fallen to ruins and toxic soil. What if architecture’s agenda for repair was not to erase ... -
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 ... -
Nature State: Incentivized Forests in Southern Ontario
(2021-02-09)Nature State: Incentivized Forests in Southern Ontario investigates the rapid growth of voluntary private land conservation efforts in suburban and rural Ontario, focusing on the rise of incentivized management from the ... -
“Northing Must be Fastened to the Ground”: Mobile Informal Work in Indian Cities
(2023-05-17)This thesis investigates how the architecture of regulation addressing street vendors’ livelihood protection in India relies on either enforcing mobility or suspending it. It proposes that narratives of spatiality must ... -
Planning for Urban Satisfaction
(2022-06-08)This paper aims to examine the strengths and weaknesses of social media platforms and proposes a vision for a better platform to invite bottom-up citizen participation in data-driven urban planning for urban satisfaction. ... -
Transit-Oriented Development or Development-Oriented Transit: Measuring the Effect of Proximity to LA Metro Rail on Residential Construction
(2022-05-18)The expansion of Los Angeles Metro’s rail network in recent decades presents a meaningful opportunity to understand how land use and transportation planning interact. This relationship is critically important to planning ...