2021 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Adam Mekies’ “Aggregate, Aggregation + Geotechnical Urbanism”
by Adam Mekies (MLAUD '21) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize Within the…
Department of Urban Planning and Design
2021 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Mary Louise Chatters Taylor’s “Urban Planning and Mental Wellness in Black Communities”
by Mary Louise Chatters Taylor (MUP '20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning Thesis Prize…
2021 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: Dolvi Township Project
by Andriani Wira Atmadja (MUP ’21) and Nadege Giraudet (MArch I ’21) — Recipients of…
2021 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: Building a Scalable Business in Data Centers
by Sarah Fayad (MLAUD ’20), Ian Grohsgal (MArch I ’21), and Dixi Wu (MDes/ MArch…
Highlands’ Harvest
by Alysoun Wright (MUP/ MLA I AP ’21) The Lower Highlands neighborhood of Lowell,…
Le Circuit Périphérique
by Jorge Ituarte-Arreola (MAUD '21), Alex Kozak (MDes REBE '21), Melissa Ponce (MDes REBE '21),…
Re-Thinking LIC
by Aeshna Prasad (MAUD '21) and Isaac Tejeira (MAUD '22) With its identity stuck between…
Embracing Dichotomy
by Xijia Zhang (MLA I AP '20), Shunfan Zheng (MAUD '20), and Sungchan Kim (MArch…
Platform for Reuse
by Cynthia Deng (MArch I/ MUP '21) and Hannah Hoyt (MArch I '21) La Défense…
2020 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Justin Cawley’s “Rescaling the University: Vertical Campuses and Postindustrial Urban Restructuring in Western Sydney”
by Justin Cawley (MAUD '20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
2020 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Margaret Haltom’s “The Next Southern Landmark: A Roadmap to Confederate Monument Redesigns and RFP for the Site of a Former White Supremacist Statue”
by Margaret Haltom (MUP '20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
Equity in Housing Distribution
by Sarah Fayad (MLAUD '20) Los Angeles needs over 560,000 units to close the gap…
2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: Oasi Plaza
By Zehui Gong (MAUD ’20), Jing Hai (MAUD ’20), Daisha Martin (MUP ’20), and Sidharth…
Terra Fluxus
By Shizheng Geng (MAUD '21) and Youngju Kim (MAUD '21) Our project, ‘Terra Fluxus,' aims…
Creating Higher Ground in Boston’s Seaport
By Amelia Muller (MUP '20) In September 2018, the City of Boston published estimates…
Hea-R-Us
by Tatum Lau (MAUD ‘19), Xin Wen (MAUD ‘20), and Cindy Xiao (MAUD ‘20) The…
Change the Street, Transform the City
by Yuzhou ‘Andrew’ Peng (MAUD '19), Solomon Green-Eames (MUP '19) The existing model of Transit Oriented…
A SELF-INTERSECTED WRAP AROUND COIL
by Mingxuan Qin (MAUD ‘20), Jichao Sun (MAUD ‘20) and Jiayi Wang (MAUD ‘20) This project…
Gradational Reciprocality
by Hiroki Kawashima ( MAUD '19), Qiaoqi Dai (MLA '19), Xinyi Zhou (MLA '20), and Xingyue Huang…
Food System Resilience: Addressing the Vulnerability of Miami’s Food System Through Distribution Cluster Centralization
by Daví Parente Schoen (MLA/MUP '19) Food distribution and processing in Miami is clustered around…
It Starts with a Seed: Exploring Place-Based Socio-Ecological Care and Alternative Economies in Community Seed Saving Initiatives
by Kathryn Gourley (MUP '19) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia!
by Evan Shieh (MAUD '19) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
Return to Pleasant Island: A study of Nauru Island
by Alysoun Wright (MUP '21) Extraction Through Time: Model as Change Following…
STL Brick Bank
by Jakob Junghanss (ETH Zurich Exchange Program) In the last decades, St. Louis' built legacy…
Metro Strand: Renewed Vitality for Overtown in an Urbanizing Miami
by Sam Adkisson (MAUD ’19) and Hiroki Kawashima (MAUD ’19). — Recipients of 2019…
The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: an Adaption with Projections on a New Climate
by Tessa Crespo (MDes '20) As an experimental infrastructure, I reimagined the classic archetypes of…
Democratizing Miami’s Healthcare Economy: Anchoring Growth in Overtown
by Syed Ali (MUP '19) and Muniba Ahmad (MUP '19) As Miami reaches for an ever…
Infrastructure Plus
by Chuanying(Channing) Zheng (MLA AP '19) and Maoran Sun (MAUD/MDes Technology '20) This design is…
Miami Metro Strand
by Sam Adkisson (MAUD '19) and Hiroki Kawashima (MAUD '19) The border between Downtown Miami…
Common Grounds: An Alternative Way of Living
by Parawee Wachirabuntoon (MLA I '19) and Charles Smith (MLAUD '19) This project looks to…
Food Sociability: Common Social Denominators
Evan Shieh (MAUD '19) and Panharith Ean (MArch '20) How do we design around the…
The Overtown Commons Toolkit
by Elena Clarke (MDes '20), Malika Leiper (MUP '19), Chandra Rouse (MUP '19) The Overtown Commons…
Community Equity Fund
Laura Lopez (MUP '19), Daniel Padilla (MUP '19), Eduardo Pelaez (MDes '19) Due to its…
emPOWER Overtown
by Catherine McCandless (MUP '19) and Naomi Woods (MDes '19) Our project proposes a comprehensive solution…
Future of Streets
The Future of Streets (FoS) research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Design's City…
Urban Intermedia
“Urban Intermedia” argues that the complexity of contemporary urban societies and environments makes…
Climatic Crime
by Cesar Castro (MUP/MDes '19, Risk and Resilience) The aim of this analysis will be to…
Climate 2050 Justice Divestment Project
by Sam Matthew (MDes '18) Inspired by the Million Dollar Block project, this project uses publicly…
Climate Liminality: The Future Land-Water Interface
by Hayden White (MAUD '18) This project proposes a tactic for the valorization of storm…
Reimagining Hamburg’s Skyline, a Trades Guild in the HafenCity
by Ece Comert (MArch '18), Benjamin Hayes (MArch '19), with contributions from Oorvi Sharma (MArch '18)…
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