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Lost in Translation: Creative Urban Regeneration in Bangkok, Thailand
(2021-05-19)
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 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Throwing Shade: Heatwaves, Emergency Preparedness, and Produced Risk
(2021-05-21)
Throwing Shade introduces a series of public cooling landscapes designed to offer relief both daily and in emergencies. Through considering networks of infrastructure and public acupuncture, the design proposes heat escapes ...
The Sovereign Table: Embedding Knowledge Infrastructure within a Tribal Homeland
(2022-05-23)
As climate change exacerbates the consequences of Western land and resource mismanagement, landscape architects are increasingly soliciting traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). This thesis calls landscape architects to ...
Exploitive By Design: Warning Signs From the Northwest Amazon
(2021-05-19)
This body of work concerns the impact of imposed capital and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries’ “Rubber Boom” and today’s 21st-century tourism industry in Iquitos, Peru, because there are parallels in the effects ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spatial Opportunities for Self-Produced Environments
(2021-05-17)
Physical planning has contributed to perpetuating spatial inequality in Caracas, Venezuela, a dynamic that has many parallelisms with other processes that result in social and economic inequalities in Latin America. The ...