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Urban Amnesia, Teriya Lee
Urban Amnesia, Teriya Lee
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis is a response to Kevin Lynch's claim that "in the process of way-finding, the strategic link is the environmental image, the generalized mental picture of the exterior physical world that is held by an individual." Specifically, the thesis deals with those parts of the urban fabric which are imageless - the unidentified, or, the forgotten. It asks the question: what can architecture do to clarify spatial identities? The thesis will explore Hong Kong's identity as it relates to memory and space.
Gold: Stories Of A City, Vivek Vijayan Njanappilly
Gold: Stories Of A City, Vivek Vijayan Njanappilly
Architecture Thesis Prep
The thesis explores the latent influences of gold and its value systems on the urban geo-politics of a South Indian city. It is an anthology of sporadic narrations recording the growth and transformation of a city over time. These narrative compositions contain traces of the past, the city of the present and speculative futures. They indicate change without erasure. Their values are embodied in gold. Malleable, ductile and fungible in its different forms.
Pleasurescapes: Mechanized Conveyances As Agents Of Alternate Urban Experience, Elias Varon
Pleasurescapes: Mechanized Conveyances As Agents Of Alternate Urban Experience, Elias Varon
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis inquires the possibilities of creating pleasurable destinations in a city that engage their urban environment through the deployment mechanized conveyances - conveyances that offer an alternative experience to the day-to-day “mobilities."
Contemporary Infrastructure For The Sustainable Mid-Sized City, Christian Martinez
Contemporary Infrastructure For The Sustainable Mid-Sized City, Christian Martinez
Architecture Thesis Prep
Embedded within the Feasibility Assessment of Sustainable Transportation: Syracuse study’s goals is an interest in urban mobility particularly in mid-sized cities in America. Well referenced texts tend to deliberate on issues of urban infrastructure in great urban metropolises. This presumes infrastructure improvements can universally have a positive impact on urban mobility irrespective of city size. But is it possible for the prosperity of cities to be augmented by virtue of investing in policy and infrastructure for sustainable transportation through following megalopolis biased guidebooks? Vishaan Chakrabarti advocates for a more urban America in “A County of Cities”, because of their ability …