After Snow: The Case for an Alpine Public
Cory Robinson Page (MLA I/MUP…
Department of Urban Planning and Design
VEILED VISIBILITY: SPATIAL MEMORY AND QUEER IDENTITY IN SHINJUKU NI-CHōME
Michael J. Kaneshiro Chou (MUP/MPH ’25) This thesis examines Shinjuku Ni-Chōme—Tokyo’s historic LGBTQ+ enclave—as…
Chemical Occupations: Anti-Colonial Reactions in the Desert
Issam Azzam (MLA I/MUP ’25)…
Learning from Quartzsite, AZ: Emerging Nomadic Spatial Practices in America
by Mojtaba Nabavi (MAUD ’24) Quartzsite, in Arizona, is a popular winter home base…
Connecting Gilman Square: A New Housing and Green Space Development
by Chandler Caserta (MArch ’25), Austin Sun (MLA/MArch 24), Kei Takanami (MArch ‘25), Amber Zeng…
2023 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Michael Zajakowski Uhll’s “Our History is our Resource:” Historic Narrative as Urban Planning Strategy in Chicago’s Pullman Neighborhood
by Michael Zajakowski Uhll (MUP ’23) — Recipient of the Urban Planning Thesis Prize. How…
2023 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Saad Boujane’s “Dwellings, Paths, Places: Configurative Habitat in Casablanca, Morocco “
by Saad Boujane (MAUD ’23) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize. The Modernist…
2023 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: “Truly, Oregon! Empower Lloyd Center, Portland, OR”
by Heejin Park (MAUD ’23), Terry Kim (MUP ’23), Aelin Shaoyu Li (MDes ’24), Claire…
2023 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: “Boyd Street Gateway”
by Maddie Farrer (MArch I ‘25), Madeleine Levin (MUP ‘23), and Arielle Rawlings (MUP ‘23)…
2022 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Rogelio Cadena’s “How Are ‘We’ Living? Reevaluating the Chicago Boulevard System”
by Rogelio Cadena (MAUD ’22) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize. At its…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: “Bracing Peter Bracy”
by Hana Cohn (MLA I ’24), Youngju Kim (MAUD ’23), Arami Matevosyan (MDes REBE ’22),…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Third Prize: “Urban Health Catalyst”
by Vicky Chen (MAUD/ MDes REBE ’22) and Xudong Zhu (MAUD ’22) — Recipients of…
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…
2021 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Mary Louise Chatters Taylor’s “Urban Planning and Mental Wellness in Black Communities”
by Mary Louise Chatters Taylor (MUP ’21) — Recipient of the Urban Planning Thesis Prize…
Water at the Edge: Towards Water Independence for Mexico City’s INFONAVIT Housing
by Ciara Stein (MLA I/ MUP ’21) “Water at the Edge” envisions a new hydrologically…
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…