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  • Walkability as an Urban Design Problem 
    Danko, Aaron (2020-09-09)
    This thesis challenges the generalized way in which walkability is being framed and implemented in Detroit. Most people in American cities, especially in Detroit, are unable to take advantage of the social, economical, ...
  • Walking Detroit 
    Harte, Seth (2012-05-19)
    Suburban Sprawl has crippled Detroit. Dependence to the automobile has accelerated the migration of citizens to the surrounding suburbs. Through this exodus, Detroit has deteriorated into a collection of abandoned buildings ...
  • The Water Hole 
    Kile, Taylor (2022-05-16)
    Tourism is not a new concept; however, only recently have individuals begun to fully understand the positive and negative effects tourism can play on a local community. For example, in the book, Tourism: Economic, Physical ...
  • A way to reveal: transforming the known, (DE) familiarizing the familiar. 
    Medley, Matthew (2016-05-19)
    The exploration of materiality is a key part of this research, viewed from multiple perspectives. As Peter Zumthor wrote in his essay "A Way of Looking at Things," materials play a role in creation of an architectural ...
  • The Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale as A Predictor of Success In A College of Engineering 
    De Martino, Hugo A. (2012-05-21)
    One of t he important aspects of research apparently neglected in the Wechsler-Bellevue literature is the reliability of the scale as a predict or of academic success. There have been many studies on its reliability and ...
  • Welcomed Distractions 
    Bogdanovic, Aleksia (2017-05-16)
    This thesis is an attempt to extract sensory stimuli from nature, and explore architectonic abstractions that can be implemented in a child's learning environment. The abstractions are designed to help strengthen and improve ...
  • West Virginia Connection 
    Smoes, Paul (2013-06-12)
    Abstract Mine, Nature, Town While much of the United States is moving at an extreme pace West Virginia lies in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains and appears to be stagnant. That is only to those who have never ...
  • "Who Am I Today?" 
    Coe, Korzell (2021-05-17)
    The expression of identity is apparent in the subjects of architecture and clothing. The body is an archival form in space/place as it embodies one of many identities. The unconscious ritual of dressing and undressing ...
  • Who Gets to Decide? 
    Arkuski, Melissa; Neistein, Gabe; Newman, Heather; Reddy, Madhavi (2023-01-18)
    Residents now and over the years have voiced concerns about not being includ - ed in the decision-making processes about projects happening in their own neighborhoods. This project explored this dire need and sought to ...
  • Why Care: applying the concepts of social housing to Detroit 
    Barbara, Connor (2022-04-28)
    This thesis explores how the concepts found within social housing can be adapted to improve the ways the United States challenges affordable housing. Only formulating around the period of industrialization, the following ...
  • Wild:Conserbilitation 
    McGuire, Michael (2013-05-22)
    Wildlife within Michigan has experienced many different changes throughout the years. When cities develop a loss of habitat occurs, and in many cases, a form of forced removal of species takes place. As roads and other ...
  • Windows: Beyond Convention Towards Connection 
    Zanier, Jordan (2021-05-19)
    With the situations of mandated physical isolation, such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, variations of connectivity are weakened as well as the mental health of the humans who experience them. This results from being confined ...
  • A Woman's Place 
    Jacobs, Alissa (2022-05-11)
    This study investigates ways in which perception of outdoor public spaces is influenced by gender. Often, studies of gender and fear in public space have been centered around perceptions and fears experienced almost ...
  • Women's and Gender Programs and Services SAG 
    Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) (2015-08-24)
  • Working from Home 
    Mourad, Tatyana (2021-05-18)
    This thesis is centered on the adaptation of architecture to accommodate university students working from home. Through studying real lived experience space of everyday domestic life. Embracing the everyday humble, messy, ...
  • Working Within The Traditions Of A Building Culture 
    Powell, David (2012-05-19)
    What are the potentials of an architecture that strives for an earnest and truthful expression? What relationship do architecture and language share? What is the line between the physical and the metaphysical? This thesis ...
  • [Work]place [inter]actions: the Dynamics of Space + Interpersonal Relations 
    Daimi, Dima (2012-05-19)
    Everything about work has changed, but very little about the workplace has. The current work environment is not working for humans. The defining ethic in the modern workplace is more demanding, bigger, and faster. More ...
  • You(th) Design 
    Lakin, Scott (2012-05-19)
    An architect's training enables him or her to be aware of social problems and encourages an attempt to find solutions. However, the building product architects create cannot solve all of the problems we often expect it to. ...

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