Food Sociability: Common Social Denominators
Evan Shieh (MAUD ’19) and Panharith Ean (MArch ’20) How do we design around the…
Department of Urban Planning and Design
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)…
In Between Pitched Roof and Modernist Slab
by Francisco Ramos (MArch ’19) This project is an essay on urban morphology, architectural typology,…
The Half City
by Gina Ciancone (MArch, MUP ’18), Rodrigo Solé (MUP ’18) Our project uses crisis as…
Excavated Extrusions
by Huma Sahin (MArch ’19) A patio design investigating the elasticity of the Spanish American…
Form-Based Coding
by Evan Shieh (MAUD ’19) The proposed design methodology in this project examines form‐based code…
Anthropic Infrastructure
by Yoeun Chung (MAUD ’19), Luke Tan (MAUD ’19) Situated in Zhengzhou, China, this project…
Stress Terrain
by Anne Chen (MLA ’18), Yoeun Chung (MAUD ’19), Shuo Zhao (MAUD ’18) Stress have…
LIVE, WORK, PLAY: Renovation and Repurposing of Vacant Office to Mixed Use Co-Living Housing
by Keunyoung Lim (MArch ’19) Context Having complicated urban problems, St. Louis functions as a…
Schoemehl Products
by Ashutosh Singhal (MAUD ’19) It was the former mayor, Vincent Schoemehl, that introduced the…
Model World
by Rose Florian Rodriguez (MAUD ’18) Model World tries to address the school to prison…
Port District Interbay: Seattle
by Georgios Avramides (MDes ’18), Duly Lee (MDes ’18), John Lee (MDes ’18), Emily Marsh (MUP…
GLORESI #OLIVETTI
by Dalia Alderzi (MDes ’19), Alaa Raafat (MDes ’18), and Carlotta Weller (MDes ’19) — Recipients of…
Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children
Global displacement has surpassed that witnessed in the wake of World War…
From Pipeline to Platform: Imagining Innovation in the Rust Belt
by Alex Yuen (MAUD ’18) — Recipient of Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
Redefining the State-Society Interface: Learning from Ghana’s Ministry of Inner City & Zongo Development
by Colleen Brady (MUP ’18) — Recipient of Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
Street Dreams: Redefining Revitalization at West Warren Avenue
by Natasha Hicks (MUP/MDes ’19) and Simone Hodgson (MUP ’18) This project explored what inclusive…
Growing-Up Warrendale: Trauma-Informed Landscape Operations for Neighborhood Intersections
by Ana Cristina Garcia (MLA I ’17) The neighborhood of Warrendale in Detroit is transforming…
Monastery & Brewery in Säynätsalo
by Benjamin Hayes (MArch ’19) The monastery and brewery reinvigorate Säynätsalo, Finland, by providing a…
Futurism 2.0
by Nicolas Turchi (MArch ’18) The project aims to address the question of why and…
Paradise in Process
by Jessy Yang (MAUD ’17) This project sees the issue of imminent sea level rise…
The Chinese Block: Searching for A New Spatial Construct
by Liang Wang (MAUD ’17) — Recipient of 2017 Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
Logistics Urbanism: The Socio-Spatial Project of China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
by Caroline Filice Smith (MAUD ’17) — Recipient of 2017 Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
Re-FORM: Towards Human-Scale Urbanism in China
by Sol Andrew Stokols (MUP ’17) — Recipient of 2017 Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize…
Riding the Rails: A Platform for Speculation on American Urbanization in the Age of High Speed Rail
by Melissa Alexander (MAUD ’13) from the Prologue: Unlike the United States, riding a train…
The W
by Van-Tuong Nguyen (MDes REBE ’18), Carla Wijaya (MAUD ’18) and Maxime Faure (MAUD ’18)…
Territories of Flux
Gloria Chang (MDes ’18), Dení López (MDes ’18), Ruth Chang (MArch ’17) Our project addresses…
New Towns Initiative
New towns have been a dominant concept in urban planning throughout the 20th…
City Form Lab’s Grid Structures
The City Form Lab’s research on grid structures has developed a novel building technology…
NoBe Nexo—Recipient of the 2017 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize
by Lisa Hollywood (MAUD ’17), Chris Merritt (MLA ’17), Patricia Alvarez (MDes REBE ’18) and Lindsay…
In Search of Authenticity: A Case Study of San Francisco Chinatown
by Yunjie Li (MDes ’16) A city or neighborhood is attractive because of its unique…
Te Vas o Te Quedas? Variations in the Explanations for Housing Abandonment in Tijuana, México
by Francisco Lara-García (MUP ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of the Department…