School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation: Recent submissions
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Do industrial clusters encourage establishment innovation?
(2018)Industrial clusters are geographical concentrations of related industries. They foster innovation, job creation and business formation. Previous studies find that firms in clusters on average are more innovative than firms ... -
INSTRUMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
(2017)The objective of this thesis is to study the audible impacts of architecture, and explore how music and sound can enhance learning. Modern culture is known to be ocular-centric, relying heavily on vision. Aesthetically, ... -
Dancing Architecture: A Formal Approach to Translating Movement and Dance
(2017)Dance is an outlet that teaches empathy and inspires people to communicate their stories through body movement. Architecture has the same ability to tell stories. I also contend that architecture made of representational ... -
Growing the Game: Soccer in America
(2017)This thesis looks to explore the history and culture of soccer in America, relative to that of the top nations in the sport, in order to design a youth academy to bolster the cultural interest. Soccer, although one of the ... -
A Case Study of Preliminary Cost-Benefit Analysis of Building Levees to Mitigate the Joint Effects of Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge
(MDPI, 2018-02-08)Sea-level rise (SLR) will magnify the impacts of storm surge; the resulting severe flooding and inundation can cause huge damage to coastal communities. Community leaders are considering implementing adaptation strategies, ...