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Building watershed narratives: two case studies of urban streams in Seattle, Washington
(2007)My research responds to calls from both practitioners and theorists to broaden the approaches for identifying and addressing the problems inherent within urban streams and rivers by utilizing a narrative-based, case study ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
CARESCAPES: TRANSNATIONAL URBAN REDEVELOPMENT OF THE POST-COLONIAL HONG KONG
(2013-04-17)Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, this research pays attention to how biased normalization of care and dependency contributes to a ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
A Community-Based Grassroots Organization in the South Bronx as a Catalyst for Youth Organizing and Activism: Analyzing the Dynamics of a Transformative Youth Program
(2014-02-24)A transformative youth program is an approach to youth development that is focused on engaging youth in understanding and changing unjust conditions in their lives, thereby transforming themselves and the communities in ... -
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 ... -
Cultural Resilience in Asia: A Comparative Study of Heritage Conservation in Lijiang and Bagan
The practices of historic preservation have long been highly influenced by the UNESCO's international guidelines that classify the significance of local living heritage into tangible and intangible categories. This approach ... -
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 ... -
Becoming an Architect: Narratives of Architectural Education
This dissertation examines the personal narratives of several aspiring architects to investigate the emergence of “occupational identities”—or how individuals navigate their education to construct a sense of themselves ... -
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 ... -
Aligning Contractual, Technological, and Organizational Elements to Achieve Higher Performance buildings: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach
High Performance (HP) buildings are rapidly growing phenomena in Architecture Engineering and Construction industry, addressing many criteria affecting the buildings’ design and construction such as sustainability, ... -
Coming Home to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China
This ethnographic-phenomenological research aims to explore the phenomenon of peri-urban farming, rural-urban integration, and community building that are crystallized in Chengdu Plain, China in recent years. Through the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ...