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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)
Re-Imagining Round Rock
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2011)
Shaking Up Small Business: The Impact of Seismic Retrofitting on Small Businesses in San Francisco
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architcture and Urban Planning, 2020)
In 2013, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed legislation establishing the Mandatory Seismic Retrofit Program. Requiring all ‘soft-story’ buildings – defined as structures with ‘soft’ wall lines – to seismically ...
Symposium 001: Policy Brutaility
(A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2015)
For the first time, Agora is dedicating a portion of its journal to one topic: police brutality. The Symposium serves as a time capsule. It is a space to recall past tragedies and to ruminate upon those that took place in ...