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  • Creating an Understanding of the Built Environment 
    Cook, Adam (2014-05-22)
    Detroit has always had a strong design heritage that goes beyond its architecture and into the fabric of everything it produces. This strong design sense has fallen off with the city, as it has fallen on hard times. Detroit ...
  • Creating Connections in Higher Education 
    Gatto, Amanda (2020-09-14)
    Educational developers are the root system of higher education; not often seen, but they keep teaching and learning alive and healthy. They do this by creating connections between people, places, and ideas. Their methods ...
  • Creating Social Value in Detroit: Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Detroit Venture Partners’ Portfolio Firms 
    Kurecka, Colleen (2016-05-19)
    The struggles of Detroit’s most underprivileged citizens have been pondered by many, but truly understood by few. Some altruistic for-profit firms have taken steps to improve the standards of living for Detroiters suffering ...
  • Creating Social Value in Detroit: Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Detroit Venture Partners’ Portfolio Firms 
    Kurecka, Colleen (2016-04-30)
    The struggles of Detroit’s most underprivileged citizens have been pondered by many, but truly understood by few. Some altruistic for-profit firms have taken steps to improve the standards of living for Detroiters suffering ...
  • Creating "The Smart City" 
    Rios, Patrice (2012-05-17)
    The world is a heavily segregated place where we are first separated by the seven continents, broken down into many countries, then by cities, trickling all the way down to towns branching off into neighborhoods and ...
  • Crime & The Built Environment 
    Duku, Dennis (2019-06-04)
    This thesis examines the effect of discriminatory economic practices and institutional racism on African American communities in Saint Louis, Missouri. Following a thorough critique of CPTED (Crime Prevention through ...
  • The Crisis of Aesthetic 
    Raffin, Joseph (2014-05-21)
    Jean Baudrillard begins to bring an arising situation to light when he speaks about the new modernism. The Pompidou Centre can be seen as an important example of an object or a building that has become purely an expression ...
  • The Critical Principles of William Dean Howells 
    Affeldt, Robert James (2012-05-18)
    BIOGRAPHY William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 -- Ma y 11, 1920), novelist, leader of American letters for the quarter-century ending in 1920, was born at Martin's Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio. His ancestry was mixed, a Welsh ...
  • A Critical Study of Pre-Raphaelitism and Rossetti's Divergence From Its Original Doctrine 
    Aumann, Edna Elizabeth (2012-05-18)
    Pre-Raphaelitism has a deeper significance and a fuller connotation in the field of art and literature than anyone thesis can hope to reveal and evaluate. Explanations concerning the word alone have been many and varied, ...
  • Critiquing Thesis 
    Rathwell, Zachary (2017-06-16)
    Introduction It is generally accepted throughout any design school that the process of critique generates ideas around the topic being analyzed. While ideas may not be directly derived from the critique itself, this type ...
  • Crossing Thresholds: Blending Boundaries 
    Hoehn, Brian (2012-05-17)
    Urban boundaries exist in multiple forms. Interaction across these boundaries is typically unseen. Many forms of current architectural design reflect this isolated and individualistic feeling. Many contemporary buildings ...
  • A Culturalist Manifesto 
    Petzak, Christopher (2012-05-17)
    Society is sculpted by the information it is fed. A particular society’s habits are a direct product of an education and value system and what has been internalized from those systems. Architecture is a direct appearance ...
  • Cultured Growth: Nature as Cultural Object 
    Haas, Ryan (2012-05-17)
    Although seemingly contradictory, Nature and Culture are inextricably linked to each other, with modern culture wholly developing as a result of the natural physical world, which has in turn been affected by the culture ...
  • Cure vs. Heal 
    Piszar, Erik (2013-06-12)
    This thesis is an exploration on the contemporary design philosophies of Healthcare facilities and their shortcomings. Most Americans can readily conjure images of the stereotype of a typical hospital environment: sterile, ...
  • The Currency of Growth 
    Stephens, Brian (2012-11-30)
    This thesis is an investigation whose purpose is to create a threshold between the natural and built environments and to discover to what extent that architecture at this juncture can invoke a phenomenological response, ...
  • Data Centers 
    Marcantonio, Philip (2022-05-16)
    Throughout the turn of the 20th century humanity saw a shift in its way of life as technology evolved ever so rapidly. This technological integration, having lasted for already over a half of a century, has crossed ...
  • Days of Future Past 
    Fournier, Steven H. (2016-04-28)
    Without question we live in an interesting time for the city of Detroit. Those who live here, or spend significant time here, know that major shifts are well underway. Yet, we also know the problems of the city run far too ...
  • Dead Space 
    Castiglione, Rocco (2012-05-22)
    The bridge between skateboarding and architecture is not seen on the same plane. Both stem from the idea of creating new challenges, new design, and moving through space. The distinction between building space and urban ...
  • Debt Monetization by States and Central Banks; A Brief History and an Outline of the Theory 
    Edmands, Nathaniel (2015-04-08)
    This paper leverages official government statistics and historical sources across five centuries to trace a brief history of debt monetization by states and their central banks. It derives from the history a sketch of a ...
  • Defense Mechanisms, Psychopathology, and Life Stress 
    Greenhut, Dana (2017-06-07)
    This study examined the relationships between the maturity of defense mechanisms, psychopathology, and life stress in a community sample of adult African American females (N=51). It was hypothesized that less mature ...

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