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There Goes the Neighborhood
(2023-01-05)
How do we Build consciousness? This thesis positions automatic attention, the cognitive method of our unconscious, as the vital mechanism within which architects can construct awareness for non-architects. If it is true ...
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 ...
Designing the Middle Scale: Post-Industrial Cities as Living Hubs
(2022-05-18)
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 ...
A Renter's Right to Return: Deprivatizing Resilience In The California Context
(2022-06-08)
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 ...
Platforms: re-framing urban relocation through an ownership model for resident-led transformations of the built environment
(2021-01-20)
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 ...
How Are 'We' Living? Reevaluating the Chicago Boulevard System
(2022-05-18)
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 ...
Tracing Narratives: the Mauritian-Chagossian Sovereignty Dispute
(2023-05-16)
In a treaty for Mauritius to gain independence from the United Kingdom in 1968, the island was to relinquish one of its own, the Chagos Archipelago. From then on, Chagossians were evicted from their homes to make space for ...
Centering Rurality: Building Rural Theory in the Black Belt
(2023-05-17)
Urbanity has long been the practical and epistemological domain of design and planning theories. As such, the methods and tools for addressing global climate challenges and persistent social inequalities have also been ...