This paper analyzes the history of the Save the Audubon Movement – a activist movement in the 1980s and early 1990s protesting Columbia University’s plan to demolish the Audubon Ballroom and replace it with a modern biomedical research complex. The Audubon Ballroom is best known…
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This dissertation is comprised of three essays. Chapter 1 is about a house titling program, called Khaya Lam, in South Africa. Despite it being legal in South Africa to acquire a title deed to a government-issued home, roughly 20 million South Africans do not hold title to their…
Hong Kong has long been ensnared in the problems of limited housing and soaring land prices, which renders its physical space one of the most visible criteria embodying its social inequalities. Regarding space as an overarching concern and framework, this thesis mainly focuses o…
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…
This dissertation questioned the tendency toward varied architectural forms in US housing projects, given that the function of the public housing program evolved over time. This work contributed to existing studies on public housing by driving at the heterogeneity in the archite…
Lehman Village Houses is part of the network of NYCHA developments in New York City. The introduction of public housing in New York City was a notable experiment. The history and progress of Lehman Village is well documented, but this thesis takes a look at both the mission of N…
In 1937, the U.S. Congress passed the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act, authorizing federal funds for the development of public housing. Twelve years later, Congress reauthorized this legislation with the American Housing Act of 1949. In the process,Congress converted a federal housi…
This dissertation examines the relationships between the physical environment and the history of public housing in Washington, D.C. from the 1940s to the 1960s. The environmental features of public housing complexes, as well as those of the landscape around them, significantly s…
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…
For the past twenty years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has used the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) to measure the performance of local public housing agencies in their implementation of the public housing program. Among the more than 3,500 publi…
Based on nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in al-Zawiya al-Hamra, a neighborhood in northern Cairo, this dissertation argues that the Egyptian "modern" capital is made not only through the discourses and grand plans of the Egyptian state but also through the practices of…