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Shifting Scales of Urban Transformation: The emergence of the Marmara Urban Region between 1990 and 2015
(2016-05-17)
Provincial borders and metropolitan theories are insufficient to explain the scale and dynamics of İstanbul’s contemporary urban development. The mega projects of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) such as the İzmit ...
From Humboldt to Caldas: On Environmental Liberations by Means of Tropical Altitudinalization
(2021-05-20)
When we stand on earth and think of the world in latitudinal terms, we are minimal, yet this is the world we attempt to conquer and pretend to comprehend. When we stand at low altitudes in the tropics, in front of tropical ...
Supply Chain as a Design Medium: The Case of West African Cocoa
(2022-06-08)
In this master’s level thesis, I look at supply chains as a medium for design and examine the concept of supply chain design within global political economy. Focusing on cocoa grown and harvested in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, ...
Of Two Minds: Excavating the Split Estate
(2021-05-18)
The split estate is a political-legal framework in the United States that severs surface property from subsurface. This effectively duplicates available property in the United States and establishes a palimpsest of ownership ...
From Hinterland to Hinterglobe
(2021-09-29)
From Hinterland to Hinterglobe investigates urbanization as a mode of generalized geographical organization in which agglomerations, although covering no more than 3% of the total land surface, are connected to the ...
Alternative Rural Development in the Age of Internet: A Close Look at E-Commerce Village Typologies in Rural China
(2021-05-18)
Taobao Village, a name created by Alibaba Group in 2009 to mark three Chinese villages heavily engaged in e-Commerce, has exceeded 5400 in number by 2020. The exponential growth of Taobao Village suggests that e-commerce ...
Grounding the Cloud
(2018-03-20)
This dissertation explores the dynamic relationship between material formations of data and the processes of data-driven urbanization within an increasingly planetary context. In this pursuit the project articulates the ...
Power of Narratives and Narratives of Power: Storytelling of, in, and for Placemaking in “Nantou Ancient City” in Shenzhen, China
(2021-05-18)
Urban planning and placemaking are in part implemented through storytelling. What are the dominant and demotic or popular narratives of, in, and for placemaking during the regeneration process of urban villages recently ...
The Evolution and Retrofitting of Work-unit Communities Under a Self-organizing Logic: Cases in Nanjing, P.R. China
(2021-06-09)
During China’s thirty years planned economy era (1949-1978), including the following two decades, the work-unit system has played a significant role in the country and has effectively promoted its economic growth by virtue ...
Grounding UPS: An Infrastructural Ethnography of a Logistics Corporation
(2018-05-21)
United Parcel Service Inc., universally known as UPS, is the largest shipping company in the world. Holding one of the largest cargo airlines, continental ground networks, and oceanic freight forwarding systems across the ...