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 ...

In New York City, app-based food delivery cyclists face exploitative labor conditions as independent contractors for the gig economy and dangerous streets as vulnerable road users. By defining biking as labor and street ...

Recent quantitative data shows that the American suburb is rapidly diversifying, prompting the question: How is American space produced, and who is producing it? The South-Asian diaspora represents 2.2 percent of the total ...

This thesis consists of two case studies examining the development and implementation of Microsoft and Amazon’s recent corporate affordable housing initiatives. Between 2018 and 2021, in the wake of mounting public concerns ...

This thesis zooms in microscopically to expose the moral distancing between the construction and material metamorphosis of concrete shorelines. As Calvert Vaux’s prevailing Riverside Park in New York City extended the ...

This thesis interrogates landscape architecture’s participation in the cleaning and concealing of repugnant sites of industry through the creation of fabricated mountains constructed from the wastes of Iowa’s booming ...

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, ...

Human intervention is going extraterrestrial, and landscape architecture is going with it. This thesis positions landscape architecture as essential to taking measure of places yet to be touched in the Anthropocene, now ...

Islands of Elegy proposes a new kind of cemetery, one that brings death closer to us and resists the stagnation of memory. This new cemetery—the “microcemetery”— manifests as several small sanctuary spaces embedded in ...

At its inception, the Chicago Boulevard System was heralded a civic “success” as it connected the city through a “magnificent chain of parks and parkways,” and provided ample space for carriage transportation and leisure ...