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The Mortage Interest Deduction
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2014)
The Mortgage Interest Deduction (MID) has been under hot debate since before the Tax Reform Act of 1986. This paper reviews the MID debate, focusing on its efficiency in promoting homeownership and its redistributional ...
A Dichotomy of Cultures
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2015)
Inclusionary Housing and Inclusionary Neighborhoods in China
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architcture and Urban Planning, 2020)
As housing prices soar and economic disparities increase across China, a growing number of cities have adopted inclusionary housing policies as a local means to produce public housing and foster economic and social inclusion. ...
Narratives of Segregation: Ghettos of Ahmedabad
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architcture and Urban Planning, 2019)
The portrayal of Ahmedabad as one of the best cities in India blatantly celebrates the exclusion of lower caste Dalits1 and religious minorities, as manifested in their increasing ghettoization. This paper sheds light on ...
Seems like the Ghetto: Understanding the Image of East Cleveland
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architcture and Urban Planning, 2019)
This essay aims to understand the decline of a specific community, Cleveland’s historic inner-ring suburb of East Cleveland, as a set of troubled and constructed histories that were never inevitable. In particular, the ...
Engrained Performance: Performance-Driven Computational Design of a Robotically Assembled Shingle Facade System
(2020-10-24)
This project presents a novel fabrication-aware and performance-driven computational
design method that facilitates the design and robotic fabrication of a wood shingle facade
system. The research merges computational ...
Design of Robotically Fabricated Timber Frame Structures
(2018-10)
This paper presents methods for designing nonstandard timber frame structures, which are enabled by cooperative multi-robotic fabrication at building scale. In comparison to the current use of automated systems in the ...