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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 ... -
Visualization, communication and copresence: using building information models in virtual worlds
In the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, work in distributed teams is becoming more common, adoption of building information modeling (BIM) is increasing, and effective time management is essential ...