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Alienations and Articulations: Tracing Israeli Land Policies Through History
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architcture and Urban Planning, 2020)
Contemporary conversations about Palestine and Israel often place land and claims to land at the center of the conflict; however, such discussions rarely concern the structures of land policy and ownership at play. Reflecting ...
Letter from the Editor
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012)
Formal Housing Provision Under Neoliberalism in the United States: Privatization as the New Enclosure and the Defense of Public Housing
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architcture and Urban Planning, 2020)
Property in the United States has been used as a mechanism for speculative investment and wealth generation since its earliest days. Policies meant to address ownership throughout the history of the country, like the ...
Multivariate Interactive Visualization of Data in Generative Design
(2016-02-29)
In this paper we describe our work on providing support for design decision making in generative design systems producing large quantities of simulation data. The work is motivated by the continuing challenge of making ...
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 ...
Public Housing in Two Liberal Welfare Regimes: A Comparison between the United States and the United Kingdom
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architcture and Urban Planning, 2020)
Public or social housing is an important legacy of welfare-state regimes. Housing studies have sought to understand specific national policies by applying Esping-Anderson’s model of welfare state typology. This research ...
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.