Tesis doctoral
2026
Becker, Adin Isaac
Most new cities fail, and most modernization projects displace tradition. This thesis examines how these outcomes may be avoided when city-building is grounded in inherited cultural frameworks. It explores how Buddhist cosmological ideas shape territorial decisions, project authorization, and design codification in Bhu...
Buddhist governance
Regional studies
Urban planning
Planning pluralism
Tesis doctoral
2026
Boyle, Jason Aaron
Offsite construction, a set of construction techniques involving offsite prefabrication before onsite building assembly, shows promise as a means of reducing housing construction costs and timelines. Yet the sector accounts for a marginal share of the construction sector in the United States today due to a range of bar...
Urban planning
Housing
Offsite Construction
Industrial Policy
Tesis doctoral
2026
Melnikov, Lydia Venice
Since the early 2000s, Providence, Rhode Island, has seen a proliferation of adaptive reuse projects converting historic industrial and commercial structures into housing, institutional space, offices, and mixed-use development. This thesis asks what Providence demonstrates about the capacities and limitations of adapt...
Providence Rhode Island
redevelopment finance
adaptive reuse
historic tax credits
Tesis doctoral
2026
Day, Imani
When demographic information is superimposed onto spatial conditions, legible patterns of dispossession, severance, erasure, extraction, and exposure emerge and persist across many Black neighborhoods in America. This landscape of vacant land, fractured street networks, eroded commercial corridors, and depleted public...
Urban planning
Architecture
Reparations
African American studies
Tesis doctoral
2026
Rodriguez Mercado, Alessandra Gudila
Latin American cities established around an industry or company present urban patterns shaped by corporate decisions rather than public planning. Chimbote and Talara, two Peruvian port cities, illustrate this phenomenon: both experienced urban expansion driven by industries —railroad, fishing, and steel in Chimbote; an...
Urban economics
Path dependence
Regional studies
Economics
Tesis doctoral
2026
Cottingham, Prasanthi
Parents today are spending more time on childcare than prior generations. At the same time, the US Surgeon General has declared a mental health crisis among American parents. This thesis offers the concept of Mutual Fulfillment as an anchor point for embedding caring city goals in urban spatial practice. The project as...
Public health
Urban planning
parenting
caring city
Tesis doctoral
2026
Uh, Daegeon
This thesis reads Hallyu not only as a global cultural image, but as an everyday urban practice. In Seoul, cultural life is produced through ordinary routines—eating, shopping, rehearsing, gathering, and moving through the city—and takes root where the built fabric can absorb change. Districts such as Hongdae and Yeonn...
Design
Seoul
Urban planning
Yongsan Park
Tesis doctoral
2026
Oyagata Maigua, Cesar Amadeos
Street vendors in San Francisco have been subject to public space regulations and enforcement justified in the name of improving public safety and health. However, these regulations can negatively affect vendor livelihoods by limiting the territorial location of their activities, leaving policy enforcement largely disc...
Public-space Governance
Urban planning
Public administration
Street Vending
Tesis doctoral
2026
Lozano, Enrique Tomás
The U.S.-Mexico border is governed as a fixed line, yet the myriad water systems sustaining its cities and ecosystems are continuous, connected, and institutionally invisible. Despite or because of these conditions, in over a century of treaties governing the Rio Grande-Bravo, none address groundwater. This thesis asks...
Design
Urban planning
Architecture
US-Mexico
Tesis doctoral
2026
Dias, Saagarika
Dubai is a city structured around economic mobility rather than generational continuity in settlement patterns. With over eighty percent of its population composed of migrants lacking long-term legal or spatial security, cultural life unfolds amid conditions of susceptibility. Yet immigrant communities - particularly t...
Dubai
cultural infrastructure
Urban planning
Indian diaspora
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