Student Research and Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Regenerating the "Model City"
The post World War II era is famous for the Baby Boomer generation and the birth of suburbia, both of which caused a major demographic shift at the time. The impact of these shifts is still felt today as the population ... -
Outward bound: developing strategies for the future of spaceports
Human desires to reach the cosmos stretch back to prehistory. Only in modern times has this become possible With the advent of an emerging private sector oriented toward space exploration and travel, it is essential to ... -
Neighborhood rebuilding centers: imagining a more cooperative future for urban rust belt neighborhoods
Cohousing and coliving are two housing forms that aim to address loneliness and encourage better social connection through shared common spaces and intentional community design. These housing concepts have not yet taken ... -
Resurrecting Abandoned Inner City Religious Buildings and Campuses as Community Amenities
Once prevalent across the United States, churches acted as community anchors in the homogenized communities situated in cities across the country, providing a communal space for prayer, schooling and social services. ... -
Communication: A Greater Analysis of Storytelling in Music Through Mayuzumi’s Bunraku
Imaginational responses similar to Eugene Gendlin’s “felt sense” appear in both music and writing. By studying a single composition for cello, Toshiro Mayuzumi’s Bunraku, writers, performers, and other creatives can ... -
Onward Echoes the Story: The Study of Religion amid Miami’s narrative of Justice & Change
Since the protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020, we see changes on a global to a local scale. In January of 2021, Apple committed to a $100 million pledge to challenge systematic racism including a new ... -
Everything But Carry a Rifle: An Article Examining the Members of the Women’s Army Corps and their Relationship to Guns
In 1942, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) was created to help alleviate expected manpower shortages for World War II. Converted to the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) and officially made Army in 1943, the WACs performed ... -
Substance Use Disorder: A Criminalized Illness
Fifty years after the onset of the “War on Drugs”, evidence shows these policies are epic failures. Overdose deaths are at an all time high, 85% of people who go through rehabilitation relapse, and 80% of people who are ... -
An Analysis on Research Methods involving American Poverty and Education
Historical injustice in the United States has caused an inequitable distribution of wealth, which especially disfavors minority groups based on race, ethnicity, and geographic location. Opportunities in education, ... -
Environmental Healing Through the Use of Nature and the Built Space
Integrative medicine and nature-based healing are effective ways to help those who are suffering medically to recover faster and more efficiently by utilizing the built, natural, and medical environments. Nature-based ... -
Spatial Experience in Architectural Environment Through Dance, Time, and Urban Choreography
Space and time are two inseparable parts of architecture. The human body experiences space through movement in different ways than dancing. A dancer carves the space through dancing. Sensorial experiences have an impact ... -
Applying Design Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder to the Design of Public Sports Facilities
In the last twenty years the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders has increased from 1 in 166 children diagnosed in 2004 to 1 in 59 children being in 2018 in the United States. Despite these growing numbers, the ... -
Planting Urban Buildings: Cooling and Connection in the Built Environment
Urban architectural design and construction is advancing toward greater symbiosis with the natural environment. A complex and promising trend situates plants on the building exterior, encouraging absorptive surfaces and ... -
Entangled Stewardship: Examining Contaminated Landscapes at the American Periphery
Beyond many American City cores exist a series of land uses characterized by waste, former infrastructures, homogeneous development, and ecologically entangled spaces of the American economy and productivity. This is ... -
Sanctuary for the gadget freaks: re-conceptualization of urban spaces in the age of IoT
The increasing number of gadget ownership and people’s dependence on the Internet of things (IoT) in everyday life, encourages us to reassess the concepts of ‘Placemaking’ of the digital era. If historically considered, ... -
Can We Make a Building From Waste: Reinventing Materials
One of the biggest challenges facing today’s architecture is the waste that comes from building materials. It is estimated that the construction process currently results in as much as 40% of wasted materials. This ... -
Designing Fire Stations for the Health & Wellness of Firefighters & Their Communities
Fire departments are making procedural and cultural changes due to the results of research regarding the health effects of carcinogens and firefighters' behavioral health but, where is the change in fire station design? ... -
How Vernacular Architecture Affects the Global: Lessons from Bangladesh
Vernacular architecture is a very adaptable and reasonable way to address human needs, which seems to be largely forgotten in contemporary architecture.1 For thousands of years, vernacular architecture has been ... -
Building Memories
Buildings matter because they are the symbols and the repositions of memory. Our lives are entangled with memories. Memory is the brain’s ability to store, retain or recall experiences during years. Remembering is the ... -
Rethinking the Retail Experience - From Technology to Social Engagement
The expression “going shopping” suggests an activity that supports people's need to be social. Participating in the retail experience allows for that need to be fulfilled. Shopping provides movement in a community and ...