Annual Thesis Books
Thesis Research and Design Proposals
CLAIMING SPACES AND SPATIAL SUBVERSION by Jessica Kisner and Bonnie Netel
CLAIMING SPACES AND SPATIAL SUBVERSION: Maintaining Place through Active Citizenship and Street Food Vending By Jessica Kisner and Bonnie Netel, MSDUE 2015. Privatization, commodification and securitization are threatening our cities’ public space and people’s ability to appropriate such spaces. In addition to regulatory enforcement of the built environment, these forces directly impact vendors that…
Urban Beauty: Equity Entrepreneurship and Black Womanhood by Obianozo Chukwuma
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The Urban Atlas Project by Sabrina Dorsainvil and Luisa Múnera
By Sabrina Dorsainvil and Luisa Múnera, MSDUE 2014. This project, piloted in Harlem, NY, creates a platform for residents and local artists to identify and investigate urban conditions that impact their everyday life. The key component of this tool, the Urban Atlas Kit, utilizes existing and resident made creative methods and tactics to conduct…
Resisting Exclusions, Organizing Against Displacement in Rapidly Urbanizing Delhi, India by Sruti Penumatsa
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THE WASHINGTON METRO AND THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN URBANITY
By Blair Lorenzo, MATUP 2014 My thesis is divided into three parts, with three interlocking goals. First, it puts the Metro project in the historical context of the evolving, shifting, and often difficult understandings of American urbanism. In particular, it focuses on how transportation technologies have both shaped the urban environment and how they have…