As the world’s population continues to gravitate towards cities (at the rate of 1 million per 5-6 days), perennial challenges in today’s cities - congestion, density, and high costs of living - will only exacerbate as this ...

This thesis investigates the case of the Alliance for Community Transit Los Angeles as an example of reparative planning ‘in action’. Over the past few decades urban planning not only moved from a technocratic, topdown ...

Over the last decade, developing countries across Asia are increasingly fostering creativity-based industries to regenerate neighborhoods in their global cities. Multilateral institutions, government agencies, and academics ...

The capacity of health care has transcended the provision of medical care in the past decades. Consumption associated with public and private spending on health care, as well as innovation produced by advancement in ...

Changing economic, demographic, and technological forces are shaping new balances of power across the planet. Systems of exchange fueled by urbanization, regional dynamism, the commodification of land, and increasingly ...

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 ...

The Republic of Armenia’s inadequate and deteriorating housing stock is among the nation’s most pressing challenges. With resources limited, how can policymakers and private developers help overcome this crisis, expanding ...

Urban shrinkage has been a topic that shadows many cities not only in the US, but also around the globe for years, and post-industrial as a typology specifically stimulates interest for this thesis. For the industrial ...

If you think of McDonald's as the icon of American food, America might taste more like General Tso Chicken than a Cheeseburger. There are currently over 45,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., more than all the McDonald's, ...

Drawing from history, sociology, architecture, and disaster and housing planning and policy, this thesis seeks to address how disaster preparedness and recovery efforts in the United States have failed renter communities ...