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The dynamics and resilience of river cities as coupled human-natural systems
(2012-09-13)Around the world many river cities are challenged simultaneously by heightened flood risk and degraded river health. The prevailing approach to flood hazard mitigation--flood control, has been criticized to be ineffective ... -
Embodied Carbon of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigerants (HVAC+R) Systems
This dissertation expands on preliminary studies of embodied carbon in building systems in commercial office buildings and aims to advance the understanding of the role that heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and ... -
Evaluating Human Visual Preference and Performance in an Office Environment Using Luminance-based Metrics
(2013-02-25)There are not adequate human factors research studies available that examine luminance-based measures as they relate to human visual preference and acceptance in spaces with daylight. The objective of this research is to ... -
An Evaluation Framework for the Integrated Design Process of Sustainable High-Performance Buildings
(2013-07-25)Integration of disciplines and project participants is widely prescribed as a remedy to improve effectiveness and efficiency of construction projects. In the context of Sustainable High-Performance (SHP) projects, the ... -
Expressive Structure: The Life and Work of Matthew Nowicki
(2013-07-23)Matthew Nowicki (1910-1950) developed an approach to architecture that negotiated the architectural and engineering fields through his use of expressive structural forms. As more than an optimized materialist exploration, ... -
A Fragmented Memory Project: Archaeological and Ethnographic Museums in Turkey, 1960-1980
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines the long neglected archaeological and ethnographic museums in the provinces of Turkey that were built between early 1960s and early 1980s, with respect to the troublesome relationship of the ... -
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, ...