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Tapping Terrain Vague
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2010)
Evaluating social equity issues in green open space planning for deprived neighborhoods.
Safety, Mode Share, and Segregated Bicycle Infrastructure
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2011)
Divided Cities
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2015)
Divided cities present an intriguing phenomenology in urban design where political and/or cultural circumstances lead to a schism in an otherwise holistic city. The consequence of such division is not only physically ...
Examining the Los Angeles Metro
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2015)
The planned expansion of the Los Angeles Metro Rail promises to provide Angelinos with access to public transportation. However, some critics of the L.A. Metro Rail believe that the expanding network will primarily serve ...
Post-Trauma Aesthetics
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017)
Cities must address the complicated aftermath of reconstruction as the front lines of wars are waged within urban areas. Nearly 20 years after the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1991, reconstruction has taken many forms, but ...
The Catalytic Escalators of Hong Kong
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017)
The Central Mid-Level Escalators in Hong Kong’s Central and Western Neighborhoods are the result of a highly dense urban fabric, a population that needs to move throughout the city, and topography that makes this movement ...
The City of Tomorrow . . . Today
(2018-04-14)
First published in 1961, Lewis Mumford’s classic macrohistorical work "The City
in History" follows human civilization from its paleolithic origins to modern-day
metropolises. Mumford was both a historian and social ...
Trimming Back the Fiar Housing Act
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2015)
This article discusses the likely Supreme Court invalidation of the disparate-impact test as a means for proving a violation of the Fair Housing Act. It analyzes the arguments of the competing sides in support of and opposed ...
Bridge of Revitalization: An Urban Design Vision for the "New Center" District of Detroit
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2010)
An urban design vision for the new center district of Detroit.