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The Houseful(l)ness of Public Space
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Domestic life - the programs and functions most closely associated with housing and home - has been largely programmed out of the public spaces of cities in order to make them inhospitable to unhoused residents and the ...
Expanding Architectures of Sharing: Public-Housing Authority-Supported Middle-Income Limited-Equity Cooperatives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
Amid soaring home prices caused by rampant speculation in high-cost cities like Cambridge, middle-income households are being squeezed harder than ever. Faced with a housing market structured around binaries between ...
Inheritance Geographies: Black Presence and the Making of London
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
Blackness has been fundamental in the making of Western cities. This thesis takes London as a site of focus through which to explore Black spatial practices. All too often, the disciplines of architecture and planning ...
Tabi. Tabbi. Tabique. Tabby.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)
The uniqueness of tabby is based in its process of collecting local and accessible materials to produce concrete through a non-measured/estimated process. The origin of tabby as either the North African tabbi, or the ...