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Housing for Returning Offenders in the United States
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017)
In the United States, individuals returning home from prison face serious obstacles securing affordable, stable housing. Without appropriate housing, applying for jobs, obtaining needed social services, and successfully ...
From Division to Fusion
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2016)
A great shift of human population from rural environments into cities has caused worldwide political and security issues. This movement has engaged, and will continue to affect, as much as one third of the world’s population. ...
Stabilizing MorningSide
(2015-05-08)
The MorningSide neighborhood in Detroit experienced huge numbers of mortgage foreclosures from 2005 through 2013. Now residents and organization leaders want to stabilize the housing market and strengthen the neighborhood. ...
Reincarnation
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2016)
This piece discusses the interface between the functional, temporal, and social dimension of physical space as it relates to the post-industrial adaptive reuse of churches. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania there have been several ...
Narrative in Urban Theory
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2014)
This article traces three phases urban theory: descriptive urban theory, Marxist urban theory, and postcolonial urban theory. It argues that these three types of urban writings do not only differ thematically from, but ...
Sidewalks of Conflict
(2018-04-14)
The following is an altered-photo series unpacking some of the conflicts for space
within a consolidated informal settlement in São Paulo, Brazil. My research of informal
settlements began with coursework in the Winter ...
Design is Political: White Supremacy and Landscape Urbanism
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architcture and Urban Planning, 2019)
Landscape Urbanism theory gained momentum for its potential to drive new urban forms and increase the agency of landscape architecture in the design and planning of the contemporary city. However, this approach still leaves ...
Southwest Detroit Wind Feasibility Study
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2011)