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Emerging Consumer Cities - Mixed land use, amenities and housing prices in Shanghai
(2018-11-08)
This research quantitatively studies how mixed land-use planning impacts the housing prices in Shanghai. To answer the question, I collected data and constructed a database on housing price and land use to measure the ...
Understanding Design Responsibility in Human Health: A Case-Study Approach for Evaluating Sunlight Use in Chilean Public Housing and Its Lack of Design Variability
(2018-03-20)
Given the importance of sunlight on human health and how the built environment influences human interaction with sunlight, does the design of public housing in Chile address the country’s large geographic variation in order ...
Forms of Ecology: Towards New Epistemological Binds Between Landscape Architecture and Ecology
(2018-05-15)
Forms of Ecology examines the main narratives through which ecology has come to the forefront of landscape architecture during the last two decades, criticizes their reductive implications for design, and proposes a series ...
Grounding the Cloud
(2018-03-20)
This dissertation explores the dynamic relationship between material formations of data and the processes of data-driven urbanization within an increasingly planetary context. In this pursuit the project articulates the ...
A Cultural Approach to Conserving Water: A Case Study on the Azraq Oasis
(2018-03-15)
My dissertation aims to design a proposed solution by studying and better understanding the specific cultural related issues of water conservation. Water, a valuable element of life, has had and continues to have a ...
What Brings More People to Parks? Open Space Environment and Visitation in Tokyo
(2018-11-08)
In dense urban settings, efficient use of land is a crucial issue. Especially, urban parks take a large amount of space in high land value areas. Creating an attractive park environment for current and future visitors has ...
Grounding UPS: An Infrastructural Ethnography of a Logistics Corporation
(2018-05-21)
United Parcel Service Inc., universally known as UPS, is the largest shipping company in the world. Holding one of the largest cargo airlines, continental ground networks, and oceanic freight forwarding systems across the ...