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The Ends of the Office: A Critique of the "White-Collar" Workplace
(2021-05-19)
Although it is arguably the primary engine of capitalist urbanization, the modern office has largely avoided critical scrutiny as a physical site of labor. In this thesis, I explore the geohistorical developments that have ...
Dung, Death, and Disease: Livestock and Capitalist Urbanization from the early Nineteenth Century to the Present
(2021-02-10)
Nonhuman animals are a key parameter for processes of urbanization, but have been marginalized in both mainstream and critical frameworks of urban theory and design. This dissertation critically analyzes this proposition ...
Investing in the Rural: Regional Opportunities for More Equitable Development Through Restructured Agriculture Supply-Demand Chains
(2022-06-08)
Today in India, small and marginal farmers (SMFs) in rural areas are exploited by skewed development which favors large corporate farmers which are directly linked to accelerating urban development. SMFs continue to be ...
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 ...
The Civic Value and Economic Promise of Medical Cities in the United States and China
(2021-06-09)
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 ...
Cities Through a Closing Window: Indigenous and Insurgent Climate Planning
(2023-05-17)
The International Panel on Climate Change released the Sixth Assessment Report, Summary for Policymakers, in early 2023, describing our current historical moment as within a “rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure ...
Dwellings, Paths, Places: Configurative Habitat in Casablanca, Morocco
(2023-05-17)
The Modernist project in Casablanca resulted in unique urban and architectural interventions in a quasi-forgotten city. In particular, distinct typo-morphologies such as Michel Ecochard’s Carrières-Centrale housing development ...
Gendered Sao Paulo: Towards an equal city for all.
(2023-05-17)
Cities are complex sociopolitical, economic, and cultural organizations perceived and used differently based on social class, gender, and race. This thesis acknowledges many voices were omitted in the urbanization of Sao ...
Metropolitan Governance in the Argentinian Context: The case of the CEAMSE
(2023-05-17)
The Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires is the largest metropolitan area of Argentina and one of the biggest in the world. In this urban setting, the Coordinación Ecológica Área Metropolitana Sociedad del Estado (CEAMSE) ...
Planning for Resiliency
(2023-05-17)
A Planning Framework for Large Resiliency Infrastructure