This project is interested in the ways that second-generation Muslim women experience public space, in particular with respect to how their identities and sense of belonging are shaped through everyday encounters in public. This implicates the reactions and behaviours of strange…
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Neoplastic intervention is derived from the medical term of neoplasm, which is an abnormal growth that continues to grow and evolve after the initial stimuli ceases. Architecturally, this neoplastic intervention at a more localized region will serve as scaffolding to catalyze re…
This research involves understanding the civic learning that emerged from the ways individuals in two civic action groups, Greenhill Historical Society (GHS) in Bonnybridge, a deindustrialised location, and Cumbernauld Village Action for the Community (CVAC) in Cumbernauld Villa…
This thesis proposes an urban intervention to create a new type of public space in the city of Shanghai. It investigates the historical evolution of the public spaces in the city and concludes that a new type of public space without prescribed functions and boundary restrictions…
This thesis approaches climate resilience through a comprehensive urban-scale system that incorporates integrated stormwater management to address sea-level rise and urban flooding, while leveraging the power of community as a tool for environmental stewardship. The City Symbiot…
This thesis explores the history of People’s Park, a landscape created by students on the University of Georgia (UGA) campus in 1970. Drawing upon archival documents and oral history interviews, this paper offers the first history of the park. It also investigates the connection…
This dissertation examines the Canadian National Exhibition and its site, Exhibition Place in Toronto, to explore the changing constellation of meanings surrounding public architecture over the past century. It reveals the cultural, financial, spatial and emotional dimensions of…
The redevelopment and rebranding of the neighborhood formerly known as "Navy Yard" began with a private-public partnership on federal land in one of the first attempts at creating a mixed-income community. In 2003, Forest City Washington won the contract for 42 acres of the Sout…
Jaques Ranciére (2009b) argues that if there is a political question in contemporary art, ‘…it will be grasped through the analysis of the metamorphoses of the political ‘third’, the politics founded on the play of exchanges and displacements between the art world and that of no…
Arising out of widespread concerns that incidents of street violence amongst young people in the UK were spiralling out of control, this research draws on feminist deconstructions of the public-private space divide to emphasise the importance of a social constructionist perspect…
This dissertation explores the state’s effort to control public space by passing legislation to suppress Orange Order processions in Ireland and British North America between 1814 and 1851. By the early nineteenth century, annual July Twelfth parades commemorating William III’s …
Franklin Park is a 527-acre park situated at the meeting point of five demographically diverse neighborhoods that contain the majority of the City of Boston’s communities of color. No other park within the Emerald Necklace, Boston’s extensive park system, is surrounded by such d…
This dissertation examines the relationship of public space to public spheres in the context of the nineteenth-century multi-cultural Ottoman seaport of Izmir (Smyrna), illustrating the ways city dwellers used urban resources and urban space to mobilize and articulate demands an…
This dissertation offers a unique examination of new cultures and forms of social movement organizing that include horizontal networking, non-hierarchical decision-making and governance combined with the importance of public visual art. Based on 23 months of ethnographic fieldwo…
European modernist architectural design and urban planning for suburbs have often been theorized as dystopic creation myths. These narratives focus on the unfulfilled promises of activist designers to deliver equality, overscaled and generic neighborhoods, and contemporary socia…
The 2010-2011 Jasmine Revolution brought many Tunisians who had lived their entire lives under authoritarian regime out onto the streets for the first time in protest. Tunisians of all ages and social backgrounds participated, demanding the ousting of then-dictator Zine el Abidi…
This thesis is an exploration of the motives, mentalities and collective identities which lay behind acts of popular anticlerical violence and iconoclasm during the pre-war Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The five year period following …
This dissertation is on the role and the context of coffeehouses in Istanbul, the capital of Ottoman Empire, in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century. It examines the place of coffeehouses in the larger society and their functions in various social network…
After the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, surprisingly, the presence of Iranian women in public spaces dramatically increased. Despite this recent change in women's presence in public spaces, Iranian women, like in many other Muslim-majority societies in the Middle East, are…