The Team developed three implementation proposals that could assist the Jefferson Chalmers and Yorkshire Woods neighborhood, as well as other, similar neighborhoods in the city.

The Core City neighborhood, like many other neighborhoods in Detroit, is characterized by a vast number of single-family houses. However, many of these houses were destroyed during the 1967 Detroit riots, which left numerous ...

William McDonough brought up in his book, Cradle to Cradle the idea to design for the “safety and well being of all children of all species for all time.” In the book, McDonough and his co-author, Michael Braungart, focus ...

The economy is suffering. The job market is in a lull. Qualified college graduates are not able to find jobs. Many homes are in foreclosure, the largest individual investment for the average North American family. During ...

The use of technology in society today is creating many aspects of dealing with the spaces that we interact with. This is through the spaces that come about from the necessity of new program spaces coming from incorporating ...

Even though there is a new way of life with new technology, new people, and new materials, contemporary architecture should be linked with hints of the past, nature, and the people of the place in which it is being created. ...

For this capstone, the Capstone Team engaged with the McDougall ‐ Hunt community on the east side of Detroit. This engagement resulted in the iden Ɵ fi ca Ɵ on of a problem and a commun ...

To design is to plan and fashion the form and structure of something artfully and skillfully. Design thus encompasses many fields and mediums, tapping architecture, furniture, objects, lighting, fashion, graphics, and more. ...

The task of this thesis is to reignite user engagement in public space by redesigning the public realm through the lens of a game designer. There were many designers who attempted to reinvent public space. Notably the ...

While there is much to see and do, the experience of Los Angeles as a city is very much fragmented. Rather than providing an easy transition from neighborhood to neighborhood, transportation serves as a barrier making it ...