Urban Studies Senior Thesis Archive
Spring 2021
PART 1: NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE & JUSTICE
- Cicely Hunsche Exploring Transportation and Mobility in New York City During Covid-19
- Vanessa Xelo The Prospects of Housing Cooperatives for Creating Affordable Housing in NYC
- Maya Silver How Using Inclusive Planning to Implement Green Roofs in Bronx Community District 1 Can Be A Step Towards Social and Environmental Equity
PART 2: VISUALIZATIONS AND STORIES OF URBAN CHANGES
- Galen Peterson Wildfire: A Formation of Spirit
- Alexandra Vargas S O L: Facilitating Empowerment through Storytelling
- Giulia Andronico De Morais Salles Changing Landscapes: A Case Study of Transit-Induced Gentrification at the Vila Madalena Metro Station Area in São Paulo, Brazil
PART 3: BEYOND IDEOLOGY & THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
- Ollie Dillon Successes in Soviet Urban Planning and their Application to Modern American Planning Failures
- Joshua Fiore Autonomous Space-Making: The Right to the City in the Housing Struggle of West Berlin
- Nihil Nudelman FTP: Imagining the People’s City
Spring 2020
- Jervey Inglesby Kinda Sorta Public Spaces
- Rachel Elson Coming Out & Popping Up: How queer pop-up events produce communal queer spaces
- Juana Urrea Arango The 14th Street Landmark Postcard Project
- Samantha Curry The Modern Food Desert: What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What to Do About All of It
- Amelia Alman Newtown Creek – Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Challenges of Industrial Resilience and the Prioritizing of Residential Real Estate
- Natalie Moselle Equitable Solutions to Displacement: A Case Study of Transit Expansion in Seattle
- Stockton Cobb ‘We Will Be Back’: How Disaster Capitalism and Extractive Industry Fueled an Urban Renaissance in Oklahoma City
Spring 2019 Senior Thesis Projects
- Reem Abi Sabra Inwood Hill Park and the Future of Green in the City
- Daniel Chu Reimagining Resiliency
- Liam Donaldson Bodega Talk: Exploring Community and Identity in NYC Corner Stores
- Yudelka Gomez Espinal Architecture of Necessity in Havana, Cuba
- Josephine Hill-James Housing not as Commodity, but Housing as Home”: The Case of Penn South
- Isabella Olivo The Rust Belt is Not Here, Yet
- Christine Mercedes Rodriguez Practices make solutions: A look into social practices in Bushwick that serves our needs
Fall 2018 Senior Thesis Projects
- Racquel Clarke The Road to Black Generational Wealth
- Melanie Quiroz A New Look at Gifted Education
Spring 2018 Senior Thesis Projects
- Samiha Ahmed belong.now: An exploration of sense of place in the age of algorithms
- Sade Swift Building Just Communities
- Michael Klunder How Transit Oriented Development & Placemaking Can Redefine San Antonio’s Urban Core
- Desiree Rodriguez-St Plice Gentrification or Nah: And what that means to teens”
- Julia Foote That Didn’t Work Out Well for Them: The American Dream and the Suburban Horror Film
- Courtney Sprigg Biomimicry to Inform Urban Design
Featured Course Projects
- Course Arab Cities: A Planning Perspective (December 2018)
- Farwa Abbas & Emery Yestin’s The Development of Riyadh’s Central Business District