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Crossing Paths: Strategies for the Gowanus Basin
(2021-06-02)
Over the past few centuries, the Gowanus has transformed from natural to pastoral to industrial to post-industrial. Its history is tied to the development of Brooklyn. Once a tidal inlet with orchards and mills, it ...
A Stadium Tower: Decongestion of congestion
(2021-05-27)
STADIUM
A stadium is a place where a flock of people get charged and discharged at a moment in time, before and after a game. To avoid congestion in the city, stadiums have been pushed away from the center and are located ...
Equity and Climate Change Adaptation: Toward a Better Understanding of Resource Allocation
(2021-02-17)
With climate change adaptation becoming ever more urgent, decisions about how to allocate adaptation resources have become increasingly important. For instance, should decision-makers in flood-prone areas fund a sea wall ...
Investigations in Metropolitan Form: Architecture, Infrastructure, and the American City
(2021-01-20)
This thesis challenges the discipline of architecture to reassert its agency at the scale of the city, the region, and the territory. Using Austin, Texas and Richmond, Virginia as case studies, it proposes a transformation ...
The Economics of Space and Time: Toward a True Mixed-Use
(2021-01-20)
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 ...
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 ...
Unpaving Paradise : Envisioning a Healthy Hialeah
(2021-05-18)
Hialeah is a city of “unhealthy” urban character in terms of green coverage, economic opportunity, and medical care; however, its strong sense of community and interpersonal “weak ties” could help overcome these characteristics ...
The Post Office Is Now A House
(2021-01-20)
The Post Office Is Now A House positions the United States Postal Service’s national network of 35,000 post offices as a site for exploring two progressive policies: the Green New Deal and the Homes for All bill, which ...
Reparative Planning in Theory and Practice: The Case of The Alliance for Community Transit - Los Angeles
(2021-05-19)
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 ...
Care Agency: A 10-year choreography of architectural repair
(2021-01-20)
“El mundo que queremos es uno donde quepan muchos mundos.” /
“The world we want is one where many worlds fit.”
-Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
“What the world will become already exists in fragments and ...