The rise of economic populism and movements for greater racial, gender, and class equality over the last few years have foregrounded the massive problems of spatial and social inequality in the United States. Academic research focused on these disparities increasingly suggests t…
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This project investigates a filmic technique—the production of moments of absorption and estrangement—and its translation and provocation to architecture with attention to private life and residence. The design research explored a set of formal, material, tectonic, programmatic,…
Technological (tech.) development has swept the country and globe. Innovation continues to revolutionize every facet of life. Whether it be an iPhone correcting spelling issues or Uber saving a person from a DUI, technology development plays a pivotal role in improving the quali…
Informality – broadly defined as that which falls ‘outside the purview of the state’ – is a key feature of India’s growing cities and towns. This paper examines the relationship between informality in employment and housing. In particular, how does a household’s informality in e…
This dissertation examines the development of public apartment complexes built by municipal authorities and the Japan Housing Corporation after World War II. It begins with the dehousing of urban areas in Japan by the United States Army Airforces during 1945 in which wooden domi…
The first chapter is joint with Rebecca Diamond and Timothy McQuade. We investigate the consequences of the 1994 rent-control expansion in San Francisco on tenants, landlords, and equilibrium outcomes in the rental market. Using a 1994 law change, we exploit quasi-experimental v…
The Baghdad–Berlin Railway played a central role in the modernization of the City of Mosul, including its urban form, its architecture, and its housing. The development of railway infrastructure led to the opening of new streets, particularly Nineveh (Ninawa) Street, and the est…
This thesis explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of dwelling in the city using rhythm as a tool to critique politically and socially imposed patterns and the built environments they produce, as well as to propose more equitable and emancipatory possibilities. A ho…
This dissertation centers on research at the intersection of labor, public, and urban economics. Chapter 1 details the role, process, and history of census tract delineation prior to each Decennial Census, and investigates short- and long-run implications of neighborhoods that r…
Within more than a century’s worth of literature on housing inequalities, a new wave of research has emerged on the residential mobility process, which scholars frame as a key mechanism for understanding racial/ethnic residential stratification. The social structural sorting per…
Las Vegas is a city of duplicates; it appears at first only complicated. Buildings on The Strip duplicate neighboring buildings, implicate antecedent versions of themselves, and replicate other cities. The multiplication of duplicate forms can be explicated (unfolded) to reveal …
The Post Office Is Now A House positions the United States Postal Service’s national network of 35,000 post offices as a site for exploring two progressive policies: the Green New Deal and the Homes for All bill, which call for adapting and upgrading existing buildings and const…
As working from home is becoming the new normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing need for home offices in the housing market. Yet the old home office concept does not suit in a socially-distanced world. The lack of social interaction and the blurred line between …
Government policy has a profound impact on many aspects of individual people's lives, limiting, expanding, or changing the choices available to them. My dissertation examines how individuals respond to policy changes through behavioral adaptation and political participation. Pol…
This dissertation examines contemporary urban land-use and housing conflicts in Cape Town, a racially segregated and unequal city. I follow Reclaim the City (RTC), a movement of predominantly Black, poor and working-class people that, since 2016, has called for “spatial justice”…
This dissertation comprises of two chapters related to the effects of displacement due to foreclosure and firm entry and one chapter related to cluster-randomized experiments.
A arquitetura orgânica nasce da ideia de um desenvolvimento natural, integrado a uma dinâmica complexa de partes organizadas em um todo harmônico, em que a criação arquitetônica dialoga com o entorno de forma simbiótica, como um organismo único. A chave central desta investigaçã…