Examples of Student Work
For this section I've selected a small sample of student work from the last several years. I chose the projects based not on their technical sophistication, but rather on the imaginative quality of the topics, questions, methods, and outcomes. Many of these are rough, speculative, unfinished, but all reveal the generative spark of interest and excitement that makes our jobs as educators worthwhile. Moreover, most of the projects are much longer than could be accommodated here, so I have selected a representative image or page. Finally, over half of the work that I assign is written, and so does not lend itself to visual representation. However, I have included a short list of titles of recent student final papers and theses below.
TOPICS OF MAJOR PAPERS, THESES, + DISSERTATIONS
PROJECTS FROM STUDIOS, LABS, + THESIS YEAR
Community Organizing Against Environmental Harms in the South Bronx
The Urban Food System: Pathways for Food Justice in New York City
IR-8: The Seed, the Science, and the State in Philippines and Vietnam
Local Development and Economic Autonomy: The Case of Emergency Basic Income São Paulo
Environmental Factors in Black maternal mortality in New York City
Challenges for Nature Based Solutions to Ecological Disaster in Postwar Syria
The Future of Mass Transit in Quito: An Exploration of the Trollebus Proposal
Food Waste as Practice in Manhattan Restaurants
Keep it Local: Planning a Thriving Business Corridor in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
Visualizing Economic Democracy in Lahore
Transit-Oriented Development and Placemaking in San Antonio's Urban Core
Istanbul's Infrastructure and the Discourse of Neo-Ottomanism
Resituating Urban Revitalization: The Historic Center of Mexico City since 1990
Urban sprawl in Brazil: The applicability of the ‘Smart Growth’ model to São Paulo
Canning New York: How Can Collectors Navigate the Urban Landscape
The Brooklyn-Queens Land Trust: Examining the Scalability of Cooperatively Owned Land in New York Environmental Sustainability and Global Competitiveness in Addis Abbaba Patrimonial Urbanism
Situating Sovereignty in the Planning of Dubai
The Body and the Stair: Constructing Discourses of Health through an Urban Artifact
Kingston Water Runs Deep: Watershed Politics and Governance in the Catskills
Waste Pickers in Brazil and the Future of Sustainable Waste Management