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Tank Imaginaries! Rethinking Water Infrastructure Design in Bengaluru
No full textScattered across Bengaluru is a vast network of manmade lakes (also called “tanks” or keres). Over the last fifty years, this once provisional water infrastructure has been disrupted by rapid urbanization. Under the pretext of conservation, many lakes are currently being restored, however this same narrative is also used to limit access, regulate usage, and diminish holistic spaces. This thesis uses Bengaluru to investigate how water infrastructure can become a central protagonist in the city—an organizing force in fostering new imaginations of public space, civic engagement, and ecological awareness. The first written component skewers current approaches to the tanks, suggesting alternative models of polyfunctional use. The second component presents design scenarios for Bellandur lake at different scales, producing typology toolkits and mechanisms of governance for each. Combined, these are presented as an instrument of advocacy for not just redesigning Bengaluru’s lakes, but critically reimagining urban water infrastructure more broadly.Department of Urban Planning and Desig
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“Northing Must be Fastened to the Ground”: Mobile Informal Work in Indian Cities
No full textThis thesis investigates how the architecture of regulation addressing street vendors’ livelihood protection in India relies on either enforcing mobility or suspending it. It proposes that narratives of spatiality must accompany the contestations around the regularization of informal work. Using the city of Chandigarh as an empirical case, the thesis poses a set of policy considerations that link workers’ conditions of spatial, social, and economic informality, through a framework of ‘dignified work’. In doing so, it addresses the limited scholarly accounts on the dimensions of informal street work in India and aims to move the discussion around formalization beyond the economic rhetoric of public policy
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Dissolving Urbanism: Trans-scalar Spatial Framework for Water Integration
No full textThis thesis research investigates a spatial framework to effectively address urban water management in Chennai, a city facing extreme hydrological events and climate change-induced challenges. Given the inadequacies of current management approaches, the research introduces a concept and method to incrementally integrate water into the urban form, thereby “Dissolving Urbanism.” This strategy intends to foster more sustainable livelihoods for the residents by breaking down existing physical, spatial, and governance barriers between scales, spaces, and policies.
Utilizing historical studies, literature reviews, and data evaluations, a tripartite framework is proposed to (1) spatially address scalar mismatches in urban water management, (2) integrate 'water space' at a neighbourhood scale via proposed water “blocks,” and (3) incentivize private stakeholders to adopt progressive water management solutions through advocacy tools and policy methods. Using an extreme event projection with scenarios and a cost-benefit analysis between traditional and proposed models assess the framework’s efficacy.
The study highlights that the proposed framework establishes an interconnection among various scales by creating the currently lacking “middle scale” characterized by the inventiveness, creativity, and imaginaries of water “blocks” that facilitate water-sharing and promote equitable water access and bottom-up flood management. These findings will contribute to urban resilience and water management in the context of climate change, offering valuable advancement to core knowledge and contemporary expression in the field of urban design
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KEUR FÀTTALIKU - The House of Recollection
No full textThe Western canon valorizes its ability to define, critique, and comprehend itself through the lens of its recorded histories. Credence and legitimacy are assigned to the documents produced, with alters constructed to their study and exploration. For societies whose histories are retained in orality, a dynamic methodology of social memory transmittance and cultural production, such paradigms are limited and reductive.
Orality calls out to the architect for a space to be housed and edified. But how must this amorphous memory-keeping practice and the act of its recollection dwell?
Taking on the themes of memory and repair to envision the architecture of oral history, this thesis aims to challenge the notions around memory institutions, shed their status as static repositories, and conceive an architecture that establishes the intimacy of understanding the past and is the site for conceiving the why of the future, in the capital city of Banjul, The Gambia
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Products of its Circumstance: Homegrown Housing
No full textMy thesis, "Products of its Circumstance: Homegrown Housing," addresses the intricate layers of a teeming, congested conurbation of sixteen cities collectively known as Metro Manila -a megalopolis shaped by 350 years of Spanish Colonialism, 50 years of American colonialism, generations of intensive rural to urban migration, and rapid privately driven urban development (virtually unchecked by government oversight), each of which has contributed to a more than century-long housing crisis.
Private developers' proht-driven models routinely sever connections between citizens and their cities, often sacrihcing substance for spectacle. This project navigates the challenges of this urban condition, recognizing every citizen's right to safe and adequate housing.
This thesis, an architectural response to the complex circumstances shaping Philippine Urbanism, began as an exploration of found objects and personal curiosities that in themselves embody and thus illuminate the close relationship between Philippine culture and the built environment. This study provoked an architectural response: a vital infrastructure that serves as armor and trellis, a design approach that takes its cues from established patterns of collective living, while catering to a persistent desire for greater personal security.
By catering to the housing needs of marginalized groups, this infrastructure emerges as a catalyzing force, balancing cultural values and safeguarding a fiercely protected core of communal living against the post-modern city's pressing forces of fragmentation. It is also a potential exemplar of a homegrown urban Filipino residence, marking a significant step towards an inward-looking and locally spirited dwelling
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Learning from Quartzsite, AZ: Emerging Nomadic Spatial Practices in America
No full textQuartzsite, in Arizona, is a popular winter home base for vehicle dwellers who identify as nomads. While vehicle dwelling in America has diverse motivations, this thesis focuses on 4 million Americans who live in their cars full-time as their sole home and rely on them as a means of seasonal migrations.
Building on the author's participation in the nomads’ biggest annual gathering in Quartzsite called Rubber Tramp Rendezvous (RTR) and subsequent interviews; the thesis investigates their spatial practices in urban and non-urban settings. It seeks to shed light on invisible mobile communities emerging from the ongoing decentralization process in the US, driven primarily by economic crises, climate change, and technological advancements. Los Angeles County serves as an urban case study, while Quartzsite serves as a non-urban case study.
The thesis advocates for differentiating between houselessness and homelessness, asserting that a houseless nomadic lifestyle can serve as an effective adaptation strategy for individuals confronting the loss of conventional homes.
In this context, design intervention aims to enhance nomads’ visibility and vehicle dwelling reliability through systemic thinking, proposing complementary infrastructural modules to address deficiencies along their migration route
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Migrant Middle: Revealing the South-Asian Diaspora through Community Making in Shrewsbury
No full textRecent quantitative data shows that the American suburb is rapidly diversifying, prompting the question: How is American space produced, and who is producing it? The South-Asian diaspora represents 2.2 percent of the total American population and has significantly contributed to the American cultural, economic, and political landscape. To understand the South-Asian diaspora in the context of Shrewsbury, a suburb located in Massachusetts, this thesis uses an ethnographic study to weave together patterns of transnational migration, identity, and everyday culture through the lens of the South-Asian community. Stories and investigations of the temporal relationships between diaspora and the built environment reveal that the architecture of everyday South-Asian life is internalized and distributed throughout the region. Migrant Middle proposes an alternative reading of the American suburb, not as an auto-centric place defined by its spatial boundaries but rather considered as a heterogeneous, regional network. How might (or not) a regional mobility strategy enhance connectivity and more prominently reveal the South-Asian diaspora
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The Hydraulic Shift: Reclaiming Mumbai’s Riverscapes
No full textThe fragmentation of Mumbai’s rivers through the pressures of
continuous development and engineering control demands an
urgent paradigm shift, one that reclaims riverscapes as living
infrastructural systems that are more than mere conduits of
waste. Using the case of the Dahisar, the thesis positions the
river within a complex gradient of “socio-natures” that form an
interconnected ecological system. The thesis proposes that
in Dahisar’s contested aqueous terrain, multi-scalar systems
are necessary for holding, permeating, and circulating waste
and water. Beyond creating hydraulic synergies, it facilitates
the creation of new publics through decentralized governance,
polyfunctional typologies, and place-based planning. The
manifesto designs a series of scenarios centering Mumbai’s
rivers as infrastructural systems that catalyze spatial justice.
Using these as instruments of advocacy, the thesis argues
that designing for resilience in the era of climate flux requires
integrating ecological systems, public stewardship, and spatial
multiplicities to collectively shape urban futures.Department of Urban Planning and Desig
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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