Informal settlements, also known as slums, favelas and barrios have become ubiquitous in developing countries’ cities. These areas are usually described as places of poverty, squalor, and uncleanliness. To many, they are places that need to be xed, improved or removed from the city. The impoverished, di cult life of slum ...

As a physical edge, urban waterfronts have historically provided both margins and thresholds between cities and nature. As the foundation of transportation, trade, and industry, America’s ports led to growth and prosperity along its waterways. However, as further settlement and industrialization spread through the United ...

This thesis hypothesizes that by transforming large-scale underperforming commercial sites, scattered throughout suburbia into community hubs, they would be well positioned to serve as conveyors of essential social and economic stimulus for the suburbanites of the 21st century. Suburban populations are changing but their ...

Transportation termini link people to social wellbeing, economic prosperity and the natural and built environments of the world. Altering and managing trends in transportation presents a major challenge in contemporary cities and will require the collaboration of stakeholders at local, regional, national and international ...

Not only visitors but also local residents of China can be visually aware of the country’s spectacular and accelerating urbanization in the last three decades. In the era of globalization, China’s urban landscape has been dramatically changed by massive deconstructions of existing building fabric, as well as large scale new ...

The Island of Hawaii is experiencing a housing shortage so extreme many Hawaiians face a choice of homelessness or relocation. However, even more damaging to the Native Hawaiians is the lack of cultural sensitivity this has caused and the architectural disconnect created by the housing shortage, a figurative and literal ...

Delocalization examines a post “urban/city” condition of development along the highway corridor between Delhi and Chandigarh in India. It imagines the process of development as an emergence through the refrain of the local, or its network of interests the localities (understood as not just static but also mobile). These ...

This thesis proposes the implementation of an urban strategy for Havana's El Vedado neighborhood post US trade embargo. This urban strategy promotes political, physical and social connection between the US and Cuba. Politically, the thesis examines a post US trade embargo Cuba. Drawing from the complex relationship between ...

American suburbs are ubiquitous and complex places. They are dynamic and evolving, and popular conceptions of them don't necessarily match reality. Much of this evolution is due to dramatic demographic shifts that have amplified during the past decade. Suburban spatial form does not reflect the diverse needs of changing ...

Hong Kong is densely populated by 7.2 million people and its prolonging housing epidemic is severe as ever. The housing problem is linked to; imbalance of supply/demand, deterioration of affordability, changing demographics, and lack of suitable land. As a result, this creates the lack of adequate and affordable housing for ...