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History, Narrative, and Production in the Cheonggyecheon Reconstruction
As cities become increasingly de-industrialized and place greater emphasis on building a sustainable future, we have seen an increase in the design of large-scale landscapes that are being incorporated into the urban fabric. ... -
IB Index: Developing a Standard Evaluation System for Intelligent Buildings
Intelligent building is a rapidly growing market in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operation (AECO) industry that aims to deploy emerging technologies and leverage data-driven decision making during the ... -
Immersive Visualization Intervention on Pull Planning
Pull-Planning is considered a brainstorming process conducted by stakeholders in construction projects. It encourages collaboration by making a stakeholder communicate and visualize the work plan for the next few weeks so ... -
Integrating human health, ecology and built environment design: A TDAR Gardens Intervention case study with an informal slum community in the Peruvian Amazon
This dissertation investigates the intertwined relationship between the built environment and human and ecological health. The project developed and implemented a collaborative action approach to explore the potential for ... -
LIFEBUILDINGX Life Building Exchange: Investigating the Intersection of Pro-environmental Behavior, Place Meaning, and High-performance Design.
The design of the physical environment and people’s relationship with that environment are both important factors related to energy conservation. While social scientists have developed theoretical frameworks to understand ... -
Measured, marked, modeled: becoming with the urban landscape
Landscape has become a central organizing concept for the design of urban space through design practices seeking to ‘recover’ the flow and flexibility of ecological processes. Yet, urban landscapes almost everywhere, and ... -
Neighborhood Networks and the Decision-Making Processes in a Distressed Social-Built Environment: A Case Study in Lake City (Seattle), Washington
The stresses caused by rapid urbanization in the Greater Seattle area have reignited the importance for neighborhood associations, citizens, health and human service providers, parks and recreation, and the local government ... -
Participatory Ergonomics in Construction: Enabling Practice-to-Research-to-Practice via the 2SAFE Model
The complicated nature of work-related musculoskeletal disorders necessitates the collective participation of researchers and practitioners in ergonomic interventions. An ideal participatory process should aim to provide ... -
Place, People, and Health: Korean Apartment Residents' Experiences of Local Social Relationships and Their Effects on Mental Health and Well-being
How can neighborhood environment affect residents’ mental health and well-being? In the broad context of understanding this mechanism, this dissertation focuses on the residents’ social relationships based on the neighborhood ... -
Processes of Everyday Resilience: The Reassembling of Informal Vending in Urban Spaces of Malang, Indonesia
This dissertation is part of the larger movement in urbanism scholarship to acknowledge the elements and processes of the ordinary that have been left out from the rational urban planning and policy discourses. Through ... -
Re-presenting Antiquity as Distinction: Pre-Arab Pasts in Tunis’ Colonial, Postcolonial and Contemporary Built Environments
The rich legacy of Tunisia’s ancient history has played a vital role in the articulation of its identity and its architectural and urban development for centuries. Punctuated with relics of its diverse pasts, Tunisian built ... -
Remaking Chinese Planning as a Profession: Growing Demand and Challenges
(2012-09-13)Since China initiated its pro-market reform in 1978, the way Chinese cities are governed has undergone a profound change. Central to such change is the fundamental revival of urban land as economic assets, because of which ... -
September 04, 1998: Entanglement and experimentation; or, Cultural fascism and Google Street View
Google Street View (GSV) presents the public realm as `fact', mapped and documented, and reconstituted online. In deleuzoguattarian terms, GSV is a unique assemblage, a bloc of space-time, with three distinct lines of force ... -
Than Samai in Modern Thai Architecture: Case Studies of Crypto-colonialism
Though Thailand has never been formally colonized, emerging Thai Studies scholarship suggests that a more accurate term for Thailand's relationship to the west is “crypto-colonial.” This indicates cultural and economic, ... -
The Coordinated City’s Mutation Machine: Capitalism, Sympathy, and Urbanization in Seattle’s South Lake Union Neighborhood
This dissertation intervenes in a debate that was published in the journal City in 2011 over how Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptual repertoire might profitably contribute to critical urban inquiry. However, rather than ... -
The Social Life of Privately-Owned Public Spaces: Investigating the history and social outcomes of POPS—one of the most powerful tools for creating public space in modern American cities.
The following thesis focuses on a very specific area of cities: privately-owned public spaces (POPS). The tools that cities and real estate developers employ to build these spaces are some of the most effective for creating ... -
Towards a Holistic Landscape: Understanding, Repairing, and Sustaining Systems
Landscape interventions are often designed through a human-centric lens that does not always consider the essential role that more-than-human elements, alongside other underrepresented elements, have in the holistic ... -
Tracing Values through An Interpretative Model — A Comparative Study on Urban Conservation of Pingyao and Datong in China
As “values” vary by culture, time, and people, misunderstanding amid international conversation literally makes the localization of the World Heritage Convention a cultural battleground. To support effective cross-cultural ... -
Use of Wearable Sensors to Unveil Roles of Task Demands-Personal Resources and Burnout on Performance of Construction Workers
This dissertation examines how task demands and personal resources affect construction workers’ productivity and safety performance. Additionally, the paper investigates the existence of a mediating mechanism of burnout ... -
Visual and Non-visual Effects of Light on Health in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU)
Only in recent years, scientists have uncovered the importance of lighting design, beyond facilitating vision. Human eyes function in a dual manner, and the second function is to facilitate healthy circadian rhythms. The ...