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The Chawls and Slums of Mumbai: Story of Urban Sprawl
(2018-04-14)
In Mumbai, informal dwellings such as slums and tenement housing, or chawls, are an
outcome of the exponential increase in the city’s population after the upsurge of mills
and industries during 19th-century British rule ...
The Rememberance of a Moon Village
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2014)
This article describes one of urban renewal projects in Seoul in 1990s that caused severe tragedies in the area based on the writer’s experience. Despite the criticisms of the “slum clearance” approach to urban renewal in ...
Eminent Domain
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2015)
For decades, local governments have used the power of eminent domain to evict low-income residents across the United States. Reversing this trend of government-sanctioned displacement, the City of Richmond, California has ...
Metropolitan Accessibility and Transportation Sustainability: Comparative Indicators for Policy Reform
(2011-01)
Accessibility is most commonly studied and measured within the context of a single metropolitan region. By contrast, this study applies metrics of accessibility (for work, non-work, by auto and transit) that incorporate ...
Inside/Outside: Urban Form in the Future
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2010)
Urban form in the future.
An Architectural Approach to Coastal Infrastructure
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017)
Coastal suburbia has a complicated relationship with the ground. While public life and public infrastructure exist on the ground plane, the coastal home must be elevated from the ground on stilts to be a legal, livable ...
Aspirations of Economic Resilience: An Analysis of the Infuriating Logic of Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena Development
(2018-04-14)
The narrative of deindustrialization and urban decline has been well-documented
in literature. Local governments in the United States have responded to structural
inequities in the use and generation of capital with some ...
Cleared for Development
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2014)
Recently planners, activists, and residents have begun asking if foreclosures have an effect on crime rates. The existence of such an effect could provide strategic guidance to community developers and organizers who are ...
Critiquing the Culture of Critiquing the Culture of Sprawl
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012)