This thesis problematizes the infrastructural and social boundaries of informal settlements established in anomalous depressed tissues within the gridded city. It does so by proposing a new urban strategy that intends to dissolve the edge condition as well as reconnect extracted points of the settlement as a means to pulsate the activity of the slum dwellers and to incorporate the informal settlement to the city. This new urban approach weaves the inverted topography of the barranco with two pieces of urban fabric that are interrupted. It explores La Limonada, one of Guatemala City's densest and most dangerous asentamientos situated in a barranco. The thesis grows out of three constants of this informal city: informal economies, steep grounds and lack of connectivity and proposes an acupunctural construction of exchange promenades that act as connective infrastructures, exchange platforms, and new public grounds. This Mobilizer engenders a new tectonic paradigm that serves a mediator in this gradient of exchanges between the consolidated city and the asentamiento.

'Offshore Concourse' is an urban proposal for a response to changing ecological, economic and political conditions in Alaska and the Arctic. Since 2007, the Northwest Passage has been navigable without need of an icebreaker. As climate change rapidly redraws the world's coastlines, it poses both opportunities and challenges for global trade: melting ice caps yield new trade routes, markets and resources, but thawing permafrost renders the land an unstable ground upon which to build emerging economies. Sited on the open ocean near the Bering Strait, the Offshore Concourse presents a new model of flexible, dynamic urbanism. The port is re-envisioned as a reconfigurable platform for both trade and occupation: an aggregation of floating modules that can move, expand and submerge in response to economic demands and climatic conditions. Operating as a point of exchange, the Concourse stages a unique confluence of goods, users and natural phenomena.

A case study of Mysore city

Planning and design of new towns

Thesis (M.A.)--Si li Zhongguo wen hua xue yuan 1974. / Cover title. Reproduced from typescript: on double leaves. Bibliography: p. 149-156.

C.W. Baskin's Thesis--University of Virginia. / Photocopy (positive) of typescript. Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts, v. 17 (1957) no. 11, p. 2441. Bibliography: leaves 454-458.

Thesis (M.A.)--Guo li zheng zhi da xue, si li Zhongguo di zheng yan jiu suo he ban di zheng yan jiu suo, 1973. / Reproduces from typescript copy. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1974. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-190).

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

Perceptions of compatibility of residential structures in Tucson's natural landscape were evaluated. Designers and non-designers, architecture and psychology students, respectively, rated 25 digital images of houses. Computer image processing techniques were used to vary color on the houses to test for contrast effects. The two groups' perceptions of compatibility were congruent while their judgments differed for color and style compatibility.